Stuff you have made today

[daleyd]

Interesting button sizing scale. Is that part of the Taurus Scale?

I think it’s now part of the SI system…

 

[DAPPH]

Made this a while ago it's for replacing steering axle knuckle ball joints on Disco's/P38 Ranges, lets just say they have a reputation to be a bit awkward and stubborn at times.

The 30 ton ram tends to move them...

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Put a bit of ram pressure on it then smack the eye end of the ball joint with a 2.5 engineers hammer that usually frees them long before you pump the 30 tons up .

Years ago repairing HGV's I had to repair an ancient P reg Bedford TK , where both king pin bushes had to be replaced .
I set it up on four meaty axle stands , tried the usual methods and failed to budge the pin .. So I welded up a well reinforced cradle out of 3/4 thick steel plate with a webbed tube hole for the top pin exit hole and used the 30 ton cylinder ram .
It got to be hard work when the 30 tons was nearly reached , a couple of pumps later the seals on the ram started to leak , in desperation I put a large nozzle oxy acet torch on it and as it got to too hot to touch , got my boss to sledge welly the eye so the force went along & into the axle beam . On the third wallop it freed off with one hell of a bang the other side was just as difficult & noisy .

 

[zeppelin builder]

Drawn on paper to prove then thought why am I messing about tracing this on 2D cad when I can draw it as a parametric and send straight to dxf. Few changes I'd make in future, in the corners, there's too much clearance. Then again in sheet metal it was set to 1.5mm and ive actually used 1.0mm.

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[zzr1200]

Put a bit of ram pressure on it then smack the eye end of the ball joint with a 2.5 engineers hammer that usually frees them long before you pump the 30 tons up .

Years ago repairing HGV's I had to repair an ancient P reg Bedford TK , where both king pin bushes had to be replaced .
I set it up on four meaty axle stands , tried the usual methods and failed to budge the pin .. So I welded up a well reinforced cradle out of 3/4 thick steel plate with a webbed tube hole for the top pin exit hole and used the 30 ton cylinder ram .
It got to be hard work when the 30 tons was nearly reached , a couple of pumps later the seals on the ram started to leak , in desperation I put a large nozzle oxy acet torch on it and as it got to too hot to touch , got my boss to sledge welly the eye so the force went along & into the axle beam . On the third wallop it freed off with one hell of a bang the other side was just as difficult & noisy .

It never gets to 30 tons, a 10 ton ram is a bit under powered at times (hammer assisted as you say, but I have heard of the eyes breaking off/cracking), so being as I own a 30 ton ram that's what I made the frame to fit.

Probably a 15/20 ton ram would be more than enough, 10 tons a bit light imo.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Finally finished another batch of Rover 75/MG ZT V8 heater valves, the originals have a tap washer type seal that perishes and leaks hot water into the system. First use for the new multimeter. Not impressed with the non 4mm sockets on it.

 

[Cheesie]

A lot of these wall caps lately in all shapes and forms, fill them in then buff down, always full penn as some lads get heavy with the grinder

 

[Hitch]

Not made today, but finished off fabrication last week.. 2 of these tanks.
Agitators finally rocked up today, so installed one set. All passed through the manway in kit form, and paddles welded to the shaft inside, motor and box fitted on top. Just need to install the bottom bearings now, which means standing them up again... then lay down again for transport.

 

[Cheesie]

Not made today, but finished off fabrication last week.. 2 of these tanks.
Agitators finally rocked up today, so installed one set. All passed through the manway in kit form, and paddles welded to the shaft inside, motor and box fitted on top. Just need to install the bottom bearings now, which means standing them up again... then lay down again for transport.

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Lovely work

 

[zeppelin builder]

Lovely work

How thick and what material ?

 

[Hitch]

How thick and what material ?

3mm 316 internal, 2mm 304 cladding. Mostly

 

[Tigman]

3mm 316 internal, 2mm 304 cladding. Mostly

All purged for food stuff ? How do you do that ?

 

[Beeezer]

Not me exactly…
mate phones up “you want to go detecting“
me “ no just got in”
20.00hrs phone goes me mate “is this a fecking bomb?”
me “looks like a mortar”
57 minutes ago the bomb squad made a hole in a field……

 

[Kram]

Tube done earlier. Sitting on top of acrylic, the delrin is a pain to clock in, wasnt cut square.

 

[Blobber]

A lot of these wall caps lately in all shapes and forms, fill them in then buff down, always full penn as some lads get heavy with the grinder

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Lovely welding!

 

[My Old Landy]

A remote for a twin vfd system I have designed at work. Just needs labels and wire traces

 

[Brad93]

A remote for a twin vfd system I have designed at work. Just needs labels and wire traces
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Very neat

 

[nickk]

Support brackets for climbing plants,had to match an existing pair in Wrought iron,20 & 16mm square.

 

[Maker]

I made this old air pump suck twice as much.


I've had it in my treasure pile for years waiting for a use. It occurred to me today it might work for vacuum filtration, so I stuck a gauge on it and the needle was bouncing between about 375 and 500 Torr, which dropped back to zero almost immediately. I took it apart expecting to find the diaphragms all perished and leaky but luckily they were fine, the reed valves however were seriously manky:



The tar came off easily enough but the sealing faces were corroded and pitted so I cleaned them up with wetstones, working up to 8000 grit, much better now (I didn't bother cleaning the pitting off the back face).


Tiny drop of light oil should keep them sealing tight, all back together and it easily pulls 625 Torr, which takes a few seconds to bleed back down to zero now. I put another gauge on the output and it makes it to 40psi before the PRV opens, not bad at all. No idea what it's rated for, where it came from or what it was used for, quality little unit though. There's a small leak where the diaphragm meets the casting, it's not a machined face so I might pull it apart again and see if a light skim on the lathe can get it to seal, maybe get a few more Torr out of it.


I of course had to try filtering something so had a rummage around and found a cute little side arm flask, a bung that didn't fit it and a narrow stem funnel (Exactly the type you wouldn't use for filtration). Cut a circle out of a coffee filter, filled it with cutting fluid, fired up the pump and it pulled it through in less than a second.



Looks like my cunning plan is gonna work, next job will be to make a big special Büchner funnel, something like this:

Stay tuned.

 

[galooph]

Finally got round to finishing this last night

 

[Kram]

I made this old air pump suck twice as much.
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I've had it in my treasure pile for years waiting for a use. It occurred to me today it might work for vacuum filtration, so I stuck a gauge on it and the needle was bouncing between about 375 and 500 Torr, which dropped back to zero almost immediately. I took it apart expecting to find the diaphragms all perished and leaky but luckily they were fine, the reed valves however were seriously manky:
View attachment 350553


The tar came off easily enough but the sealing faces were corroded and pitted so I cleaned them up with wetstones, working up to 8000 grit, much better now (I didn't bother cleaning the pitting off the back face).
View attachment 350554

Tiny drop of light oil should keep them sealing tight, all back together and it easily pulls 625 Torr, which takes a few seconds to bleed back down to zero now. I put another gauge on the output and it makes it to 40psi before the PRV opens, not bad at all. No idea what it's rated for, where it came from or what it was used for, quality little unit though. There's a small leak where the diaphragm meets the casting, it's not a machined face so I might pull it apart again and see if a light skim on the lathe can get it to seal, maybe get a few more Torr out of it.


I of course had to try filtering something so had a rummage around and found a cute little side arm flask, a bung that didn't fit it and a narrow stem funnel (Exactly the type you wouldn't use for filtration). Cut a circle out of a coffee filter, filled it with cutting fluid, fired up the pump and it pulled it through in less than a second.

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Looks like my cunning plan is gonna work, next job will be to make a big special Büchner funnel, something like this:
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Stay tuned.

What are you filtering with it?