Today I acquired...........

[MattF]

You DO like creating challenges for yourself [and your friend], don't you.

Those challenges make seeing it sat in your workshop all the more enjoyable.

 

[JMS1972]

It's getting serious ...

the good thing: I can pick up an Arboga U2508, the Myford ML7 might get company;
the bad thing: the drill-mill is in a narrow basement with a very low ceiling height and a very narrow, steep, angled staircase as the only access.

The machine should be broken down into as many parts as possible, there are only two of us and we are no athletes.

I'm thinking about one of the well known engine jacks - it's the head that worries me the most:

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My choice would be the familiar textile loops, choking - so tightening itself, end by loop - passed around narrowings.

If I make it as above, the head will be quite front-heavy with the gearbox, so more like this:

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Question:
- Is the head hanging securely?
- Can I break anything with this solution?
- Do I have to remove all switches, levers, etc. from the head to rule out damage?

Further:

Once we have the head on the ground, we want to secure it upside down on a piece of cardboard cut to size on a hand truck with straps.

- Is there any soup coming out of the head? This is the oil sheet:

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What do you think?
Any other suggestions?

Thank you very much!

Greetings

Carsten

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Pop a big lump of wood on the table and wind it up to max height to support the weight of the head whilst unscrewing.

You can then lower the head on the table to get to a more convenient height if desired.

 

[Hood]

With the sensors fitted do you have to have the wheels balanced incase you go above 50 mph?

Won't be an issue, my stabilisers are only rated to 40mph.

 

[roblane65]

Yesterday I acquired 2 x 3m lengths of 80 x 80 x 6 angle for nowt

It was going to the tip ,my mate drives a caged 7.5 tonner for the council not that exciting but I can feel a nice bench coming on .That is once I start the other roundtuit jobs in queue !

 

[roofman]

Yet another rental

 

[25.4_mechanic]

You DO like creating challenges for yourself [and your friend], don't you.

Have you been reading @mangocrazy's thread re getting a stone slab out of a cellar? Wait until he's done it and get him over to help.....

Yes, a challenge now and then, something you've never managed before ... and the friend is my big son, he has no choice.

I read through the thread and learned a lot more than I expected - let's see how it turns out ...

This idea came in:

Nice evening

Carsten

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[dobbslc]

I finally bought a new tube of this,

It's really good sealant.
The Hobgoblin isn't bad either!

 

[brewdexta]

lots of techie stuff

first, an ATX PSU dongle as per @Stueeee, I shall test it later

Then some mains electricity monitoring kit. First and transformer, AC 250 to AC 9v, no rectification, his is for monitoring supply voltage

This plugs into this board, it takes up to 3 current transformers and on voltage sensor. This is ideal for 3 phase monitoring but lechacal.com, based out of Edinburgh have lots of other combinations. This one fits on to a Raspberry pi

Then a parallel to serial ATA (and visa versa) converter, if I can then convert sata to USB then I have IDE to USB.

Using one of these I can then connect SATA drives to USB, transfer the contents to my NAS then crush the drive.

Same with this Msata to 2.5" sata converter

and working with the old msata drive out of a knackered laptop

And and a M2 Sata drive to USB converter.

So with all the above, I should, with maybe one addition and some SCIS exceptions, be able to get rid of about 20 drives littering the place up.

The PSU adapter works and powers 3.5 disks and with the 2.5" sata to USB adapter I have a started transferring data, along with the msata from my laptop I've made a good start, all on the NAS now and will get replicated to the other NAS overnight.

Cheers
Andy

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Skip diving rersults.

The rope and astroi turff was not documented, as I forgot.

From a friend, instead of cash.


I paid for this.

Swoped for some astro turf off cuts.

 

[Dieselman 63]

A very nice bit of paper, with numbers and words on it.

£768.98.

Shame I can not spend it.
Took a load of dead jewerly and a few dead watches to a dealer I know and weighed them in.

Funds going to MIS to pay off our consumable account with out hitting our limite reserves.

That 7 could look like a 1 etc. etc.

 

[Bornfree]

A free shed I just had to take it down. I've never seen one as well made it's bolted together with 5/8 Whitworth bolts.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That 7 could look like a 1 etc. etc.

The word 7 does not look like a 1

 

[Dieselman 63]

The word 7 does not look like a 1

Sense of humour fail

 

[T5FAU]

A Sherman acdc Tig Can't wait to fire it up, just need some argon first, but wish I didn't have to pay another hobbyweld bottle deposit.

 

[Hood]

...
I think they transmit constantly, ...

Just been round at the bike and they transmit every 30 seconds unless they notice a sudden pressure drop, which if it falls below the set minimum pressure it sounds an alarm which is bleeding loud through the helmets intercom

 

[Rannsachair]

My Landy is out in all weathers, decided to buy it a waterproof cover to see if it will protect what is left of the paintwork, never mind the water ingress from the front doors and the windsreen rubber ( hope to renew all this year).

So gave it a quick wash

And on with the cover

 

[Hood]

My Landy is out in all weathers, decided to buy it a waterproof cover to see if it will protect what is left of the paintwork, never mind the water ingress from the front doors and the windsreen rubber ( hope to renew all this year).

So gave it a quick wash
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And on with the cover
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Better tie that down

 

[Rannsachair]

Better tie that down

Straps are built in

 

[daleyd]

Don’t forget to take it off before you drive off

 

[Memmeddu]

Roughly 4 years ago I've purchased my Metabo WE19-180RT Quick angle grinder.
And I've used it just for cutting every since .
180mm grinders are very uncommon over here so it's very difficult to find consumables.
Anyway Amazon came home few minutes ago
A Bosch 7mm grinding disc in 180mm size