If I made that I’d want it left natural or maybe waxed,it’d enhance the appearance.
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NIce job! Don't know if your interested, but a neighbour has a very similar fence to that (wood slats and concrete posts), and he painted the posts with the same cuprinol stuff that he did the slats in and it actually looks really good. To be honest, from 10 or 15 yards, you couldn't tell they weren't timber posts.
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£50 seems a bit excessive, they normally go for around £20 second hand on stationary engine forums, FB groups etc.
I picked up a Petter A1 handle for about £12 from one of the stalls at a show.
The new ones are £48 from the parts places and the cheapest used I’ve found were something like £30 plus the postage so getting on for £40.
I was at a show at the weekend and had a nosey around but non were for sale.
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I swapped my MIG set onto this Fronius trolley, much nicer than the old DIY one that I never could be bothered to replace. I just needed an upper tray to seperate the welder from cooler, so I can weld some locking points in to stop everything moving.
Plasma cut sides, stiffened with a rear rib, 3mm top tray, all bolted up perfectly. Satisfying when it's just taken a little bit of time to draw up and profile out.
Plasma cut sides, stiffened with a rear rib, 3mm top tray, all bolted up perfectly. Satisfying when it's just taken a little bit of time to draw up and profile out.
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Copper is good to.
If it's a smooth part you don't want to marr emery cloth abrasive side to the jaw.
If it's a part you don't want to slip, abrasive towards part.
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The Lorch trolley is hard to beat
Very similar
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The lorch trolley is nicer i think
very heavily built, has enclosed rear wheels, and sits at a great height for bench work.Thanks.
I actually quite like the clean look of the fresh concrete posts tbh. I'm sure a year down the line though they will be a bit grubby and wont look so nice so will revisit my options when that time comes.
I have got to take the gate apart again though as I noticed the composite boards were bowing last night as they expanded in the heat. I thought I'd left enough room for them to expand but clearly not so they've all got to come out and another few mm needs shaving off them all. Annoying as it means I'm going to have a couple of drilled out pop rivets rattling around In the frame for ever more!!
Dyson use plastic stubs to mount the wheels so they just snap, not long out of warranty and with £100 cost of a replacement head I drilled out the remains and machined some new brass axles to slot in, they need to go in from behind which required a full strip down of the brush head which was great fun…not.
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The wheels run on bearings, checking for fit
In position
Wheels on
The plastic is cracked so not sure how long the new brass ones will hold out for before the full thing disintegrates but time will tell. Utter plastic rubbish, a really bad design.
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The wheels run on bearings, checking for fit
In position
Wheels on
The plastic is cracked so not sure how long the new brass ones will hold out for before the full thing disintegrates but time will tell. Utter plastic rubbish, a really bad design.
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It was probably one of the 5,000 prototypes he boasted off before he got it right.
And then hope the pin still goes through or have you made the bushings oversize?
Or maybe line bore it after?
If it's for the locking pins, it'll likely be two separate pins, so alignment isn't quite as critical.
Plus it's a JCB. There's probably already a couple mm of play anyway
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Bushings are the same size as the ones on the bucket which have about a millimeter of clearance in them so they've got plenty of slip.
Bear in mind these don't offer any support for the weight on the forks that is borne by the hooks on top. They're just to stop the forks falling off and allow me to tilt them down fully. The main benefit is to allow me to move trailers about, I drilled the headstock to take a towball and when you're shunting trailers about without the headstock locked on it has a tendency to try and push it off.
Better than the several feet of play in the back actor. Still it's a bloody handy bit of kit and maneuverable being a 2CX.If it's for the locking pins, it'll likely be two separate pins, so alignment isn't quite as critical.
Plus it's a JCB. There's probably already a couple mm of play anyway
