KimB
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Can’t wait to hear it run
Stuff you have fixed today
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Stueeee
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Some weeks ago I dropped my Le Creuset frying pan on the stone floor in our kitchen -the result was a frying pan with the entire handle section of the casting broken away. This was closely followed by disbelief at the £££ cost of a replacement. So I bought a bog standard cast iron frying pan from Amazon for ££, reasoning that once it was seasoned it would be non-stick without any fancy coatings. however, the inside of this pan had a noticeable dome in the centre.
Resulting in one of my more unusual milling jobs....
Not really looking for a surface plate degree of flatness but needed to get an idea of what was doable with the dial gauge.
Blended the milling work with a 40 grit disc in the DA sander before seasoning it with some cooking oil and returning it to its natural environment.
Resulting in one of my more unusual milling jobs....
Not really looking for a surface plate degree of flatness but needed to get an idea of what was doable with the dial gauge.
Blended the milling work with a 40 grit disc in the DA sander before seasoning it with some cooking oil and returning it to its natural environment.
123hotchef
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good job
I have an induction hob at home, if I use a cheap frying pan that's not 100% flat on the bottom the pan gets hot spots!
I suspect the bottom being flat is just as important as the inside?
My Granny had an old saucepan that burnt in one spot on the bottom - she blamed jam making in 1697 for it - sugar stuck and burnt. She had a Rayburn with flat hot plates on top - I noticed it wobbled slightly in 1990 - quick tap with a hammer in one spot . . . no more burning.
I still use the same saucepan
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My mum had a frying pan with a huge bulge in the bottom of it, she blamed me for putting water in it while it was hot. I'm pretty sure I'd never used it before but I do do that and it's never damaged any of my pans.My Granny had an old saucepan that burnt in one spot on the bottom - she blamed jam making in 1697 for it - sugar stuck and burnt. She had a Rayburn with flat hot plates on top - I noticed it wobbled slightly in 1990 - quick tap with a hammer in one spot . . . no more burning.
I still use the same saucepan
Anyway when I did use it the rocking was really annoying (no idea how she put up with it) so I went outside and have it a thump with a rawhide hammer, good as new. Your Granny sure is old!My Granny had an old saucepan that burnt in one spot on the bottom - she blamed jam making in 1697 for it - sugar stuck and burnt. She had a Rayburn with flat hot plates on top - I noticed it wobbled slightly in 1990 - quick tap with a hammer in one spot . . . no more burning.
I still use the same saucepan
Stueeee
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With the oil fired range cooker we have, having good contact between the pan and the hotplate is the only way to get stuff to cook OK. The underside of the pan I've just machined is pretty flat, so from that perspective was OK. It Just needed a lot of oil/fat to successfully fry stuff before I machined the dome off it.
Or my fingers are running a different driver update than my brain . . .
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Welcome to borrow my mixer.
indy4x
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Finally getting stuck in to my compressor refurb, I picked it up from the local scrap yard and needed a few bits sorting out
Came from a carpentry shop and they had run it with no air filter and inside the pump was a bit of a mess
Cleaned up ok, very little wear and is now all back together
Stuck the 3D printed repair part to the motor box
Rewired and all back together
Just need to pickup a new drive belt and start using it
Came from a carpentry shop and they had run it with no air filter and inside the pump was a bit of a mess
Cleaned up ok, very little wear and is now all back together
Stuck the 3D printed repair part to the motor box
Rewired and all back together
Just need to pickup a new drive belt and start using it
Mr Fro
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Finally fixed the Bridgeport x & y feeds and connected everything up to a VFD through the original control panel.
I scooped decades of gunk out of the motors. Oddly, they had new brushes in so someone had had a go in the past.
The boards were busted so I cobbled some stuff together to get it running so I'm a happy boy...
Well I was until, having moved the table around a bit, the knee to table axis developed a serious amount of play. Checked the gib and it's wound all the way in. I guess it's time to have a go at shimming the gib.
Anyone know the best way to do it? I thought I'd wind it out a bit and poke in some feeler guages to size the gap then cut an appropriate thickness shim for the back of the gib. Any good?
I scooped decades of gunk out of the motors. Oddly, they had new brushes in so someone had had a go in the past.
The boards were busted so I cobbled some stuff together to get it running so I'm a happy boy...
Well I was until, having moved the table around a bit, the knee to table axis developed a serious amount of play. Checked the gib and it's wound all the way in. I guess it's time to have a go at shimming the gib.
Anyone know the best way to do it? I thought I'd wind it out a bit and poke in some feeler guages to size the gap then cut an appropriate thickness shim for the back of the gib. Any good?
Barking Mat
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Dunno nothing, but bound to be asking you questions in April...
Edward Teach
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Mr Fro
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Yeah but the screw has a shoulder which bottoms out in the recess in which it sits.
I'll grab some pics when I have a go at it.
The Artilleryman
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A new gib, if the old one is worn, an oversize - but you'd probably have to make it, or shim it.
I shimmed a Hartford (Taiwanese Bridgeport) on x & y, quite tricky due to the oil ways.
