Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Delrin is quite a different animal to nylon Delrin turns like a dream , allowing you to get near polished finishes if your cutter is correctly ground and stoned off.

You can get an excellent finish with ordinary carbide inserts, don't even have to be fancy ground ones.

Some pics of some bits I have done on the manual lathe.


This is one being drilled

And this is them finished.

A few more all done on the Triumph with normal CNMG inserts.

Better with black though, don't see grubby hand marks

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[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I needed to pull my crane apart for some maintenance so knocked up some quick and dirty supports to slide the booms on to
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Working on the PTFE pads?

 

[selectedgrub]

Not much

 

[Dr.Al]

Couldn't sleep, so welded this at 1 o'clock this morning:

 

[Woody.v8]

Working on the PTFE pads?

It's one of the jobs to do yes, I thought I'd better do them before it caused any more damage.
It only looks like the ones in the first (biggest) boom are needed, the others look pretty good.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It's one of the jobs to do yes, I thought I'd better do them before it caused any more damage.
It only looks like the ones in the first (biggest) boom are needed, the others look pretty good.

Just be pleased they are Not Pallfinger prices!!!!!!!!!!!!

The main boom always takes the weight, never gets cleaned and always over greased.

 

[Woody.v8]

Just be pleased they are Not Pallfinger prices!!!!!!!!!!!!

The main boom always takes the weight, never gets cleaned and always over greased.

I think I'm going to get some ptfe sheet and make my own the are quite simple in construction, I just wish I had some sort of parts diagram as it's been meddled with in the past and I'm slowly working my way through trying to put it back to standard (ish).

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

They vary from crane to crane model and year.

Buy a set as a pattern.

 

[jimbo84]

Not made more assembled. Got the bench ends pre 1st lockdown from the scrapyard, painted them and had them sitting against a wall since then so thought it was about time I did something with them. Sapele timber slats with a few layers of teak oil on them and some stainless steel button head bolts to attach it to the ends.



Which became a handy spot to park myself while the rapidor made its way through this piece of track.

 

[Aff]

New front cross member for the truck after an MOT fail and some advice from the chaps on here

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Had a lazy day, have to stay clean and keep a phone to hand. Ready to deal with customers.

So good coffee, good music and no power tools. The only electricity used was for lights and cd player. Water was boiled on a paraffin stove.


This J Tyzack Millwrights Dressing toll arrived in this condition. Complete, dirty. but with the dirt of age. The tips had been badly dressed over time.
The wedge was swollen with old wax and oil.



The manufactures name was revealed in the cleaning and dressing of the edges.




The cleaning showed a name stamped into 2 places on the wooden handle, the wedge and the blade.

R. L. Hickman.

The metal was cleaned with wire wool, White snake. Then warmed on the stove and wax polished in.

The wood was cleaned up with "Meths" and wire wool. This showed up the grain of the beech. The wood was finished with a custom shaped cabinet scraper.



The wedge, is Oak. It needed to be reduced in width. But removing the excess would show up as new wood.
So, clean with "Meths" and wire wool. But keep the dirty "Meths".
Dress back the wood with files, on both sides. Then key with course sand paper.
By this time the dirty "Meths" should of reduced and left you with a dirty sludge. Add some soft wax to make a paste. Then using a fine wire wool stain the exposed new wood.



Sanding sealer and Polish.
The polish is home made, dissolve shellac with cheep nail varnish remover and apply with a soft cloth.




This is the old wet stone used to dress the cutting edges.

As it was 4am, the music was classic 80's rock and illuminated by a storm lamp.

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The other item I managed to get some time on was this 2lb Copper soldering iron.



The handle is stuck on with rock sulphur and was not going to come of with out a fight and noise.
The tip had been droped at some point and was burred over. One rivet was loose.



Cleaning up showed a manufactures name.
Monument Brand.
Plus the Number 28 on the other side.
The tip was dressed to give 1 square edge and the other 3 are radius to different amounts.



Cleaned, polished and waxed.
The rivet was made sound by heating and pressing it in a vice.
The handle has been repaired at some point in it's life, you can see the welds on the bar to head.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The soldering iron, above was put to use. As soon as it was ready to be used.



Storm lantern wanted to start dismantling itself.



The little gas torch was not man enough. But it was handy to light the Monitor blow torch.

 

[Wedg1e]

starting weight 4kg. Lost 315g to the saw and slag

Some years back we fitted out a purpose-built ISO container-style cabin as an x-ray facility. The exposure room is roughly an 8 foot cube and all sides plus the doors (it has an emergency exit) were lined with a minimum 10mm of lead. We had the lead cast as 1000 x 500mm slabs by Calder in Chester, but of course all the joins had to be covered with matching narrow strips as otherwise the x-rays would pass through the gaps. So some of the slabs were put through a saw table (you really need a leather apron to deflect the chippings, they sting a bit!). When the floor had been swept and the chippings melted down, we had a couple of beers on the proceeds - about 120Kg as I recall (the lead, not the beer )
We've just recommissioned an irradiation system at a university, originally built by us (OK, me ) in 2008 and now upgraded with new control electrics, a stainless steel cabinet and even more lead shielding - 1200Kg of the stuff, most of it forming a 500mm cube with 50mm wall. Has to be that thick so that research students can stand next to it while they nuke the contents with 320kV of x-rays.

 

[Gareth0123]

LT288 Renascent.

I was asked by a previously regular customer to do a little job for him. I explained to him that my business is currently mothballed due to my illness and that I am only selling previously made items still in stock, but I was now doing a little light duty project work for myself, family and friends just to keep my hand in and as a sort of maintenance thingy to ensure my rather expensive equipment wasn't rusting away or any damp getting on to circuit boards in the welders, drills, saws, grinders compressors and plasma cutters, etc.

Anyway, as a favour I agreed to make him a rather simple but serviceable pivot plinth for a weathervane belonging to one of his neighbours.
Nothing spectacular or complicated and suitable to mount this weathervane on the end of a garden shed roof.
The black painted plate with a pivot rod is what I made; simple and practical, nothing more and nothing less. 5 x 50 x 50 MS flat. 4 of 4mmØ holes, 1 x10mmØ hole, 50mm x 10mmØ MS bar, a zap with my R-Tech mig welder and a lick of paint.

Obviously because I am ill and not presently working I refused to take any kind of payment, but the gentleman I did this job for made a £20.00 donation to Sea Palling Independent Lifeboat as a way of thanking me.

After he had collected the weathervane this afternoon it was only then out of curiosity I decided to Google LT288 and to try and find some photos of her or maybe even find her present position on one of the ship tracking websites.

I knew from the LT designation she was a Lowestoft registered vessel and this is what I found on google: www.wildfire3.com/renascent.html

 

[Hood]

Bored and tapped a hole in the C4 holder so that coolant can be directed to the boring bar, works well and the Loc-Line coolant pipe just pushes in so is easily removed when I remove the tool.

Also wrote a macro for rotating the toolpath on the plasma, never really had a need for it but might come in handy one day. One issue I have found though is the CSMIO controller I use does not work in Jog as Mach with the parallel port would. It still jogs along the conventional X and Y where with the parallel port it would run along the rotated X or Y when jogging, so that is not so good

Still it can still be used fine from G Code as can be seen from the two bits I cut in a plate that was angled about 45 degrees to normal.

 

[ukracer]

Bored and tapped a hole in the C4 holder so that coolant can be directed to the boring bar, works well and the Loc-Line coolant pipe just pushes in so is easily removed when I remove the tool.

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Also wrote a macro for rotating the toolpath on the plasma, never really had a need for it but might come in handy one day. One issue I have found though is the CSMIO controller I use does not work in Jog as Mach with the parallel port would. It still jogs along the conventional X and Y where with the parallel port it would run along the rotated X or Y when jogging, so that is not so good

Still it can still be used fine from G Code as can be seen from the two bits I cut in a plate that was angled about 45 degrees to normal.
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You got a link for loc line coolant pipe?

 

[Hood]

You can get it more or less any place, I prefer to get the genuine stuff rather than the knockoff.
MSC Direct, Zoro, Chronos etc likely have it.

 

[Hood]

Ok Chronos stuff is not genuine.

Adjustable Coolant Hose Set - Chronos Engineering Supplies

Comprises of 11" of flexible coolant hose together with standard threaded fitting adaptor and a Nozzle Compatible with Locline and other systems 1/4 BSP fitting

www.chronos.ltd.uk

Zoro however is

Modular Coolant Hose Systems and Kits | Zoro UK

Modular Coolant Hose Systems and Kits, 7 products available to order online. Next day delivery available on most items, free delivery on orders over £25!

www.zoro.co.uk

MSC is also genuine

Loc-Line COOLANT DELIVERY SYSTEMS - 1/8-1/4 LOC-LINE HOSE ASSEMBLY 13" SET

www.mscdirect.co.uk

 

[ukracer]

You can get it more or less any place, I prefer to get the genuine stuff rather than the knockoff.
MSC Direct, Zoro, Chronos etc likely have it.

It was more the pipe I was trying to find mate.

 

[Hood]

It was more the pipe I was trying to find mate.

What pipe?