Stuff you have made today

[indy4x]

Didn't Triumph and Hillman use these back in the 60's and 70's?

Yes, they were called Rotoflex couplings

Triumph GT6 MK11 and early MKIII had them on the rear drive shaft a and the 1300 FWD had them as well on the driveshafts

Changing the GT6 Rotoflex was a bit of a mission, the coupling came banded so you could fit it and then cut the banding once installed.

There was a special Churchill tool to decompress them which I used to have along with a shed load of other Triumph tooling but a messy divorce saw me lose them

I have made do with BIG jubilee clips to decompress the couplings

I worked out you could cut the old Rotoflex off if it already hadn't fallen apart, cut the banding on the new coupling and leaver it over the ears on the outer shaft and then recompress it to get the bolts in.

Why? Getting the outer shaft out of the hub and back in was a proper mission

 

[RWD3M]

Yes they Bl**dy well did. For my sins I raced and Hillclimbed Hillman Imps (no, I don't know why either) and these were always an absolute nightmare. I would always struggle with one or more on the day.

Anyhow, today's effort, a long time finishing as I started this a good few years back. A rotary broach tool:

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Sorry, didn't mean to touch a nerve

 

[RWD3M]

Yes, they were called Rotoflex couplings

Triumph GT6 MK11 and early MKIII had them on the rear drive shaft a and the 1300 FWD had them as well on the driveshafts

Changing the GT6 Rotoflex was a bit of a mission, the coupling came banded so you could fit it and then cut the banding once installed.

There was a special Churchill tool to decompress them which I used to have along with a shed load of other Triumph tooling but a messy divorce saw me lose them

I have made do with BIG jubilee clips to decompress the couplings

I worked out you could cut the old Rotoflex off if it already hadn't fallen apart, cut the banding on the new coupling and leaver it over the ears on the outer shaft and then recompress it to get the bolts in.

Why? Getting the outer shaft out of the hub and back in was a proper mission

I'm lucky I guess, Mine is a very late Mk3!

 

[The Artilleryman]

Finished yesterday. Started this a few months ago, but realised I needed a larger welding table.

Now fitted under my power hacksaw.

All I need to do now is work out where to mount the electrics box.

 

[Dcal]

Nice job and nice saw.
However, the reaction from the saw cutting will probably make the trolly move unless you chock it.
Don't ask me how I know.

 

[sardine]

Finally got around to setting up the battery adaptor @Oneoff printed for me last September, Worx drill on a Ozito battery works ok, both came out of a DIY stores skip.

Thanks to Oneoff.

 

[The Artilleryman]

The front casters are braked, rear fixed. If it rocks back and fore I'll lift lift it and put a wood beam behind the front wheels and the same at the rear, but parallel to the wheels (cannot put a beam in front of the rear wheels as the saw is tail heavy.

 

[James1979]

Remote start I made quickly after seeing Lord Muck on YouTube. Wish I’d seen that 20 years ago! Just quick and rough out of stuff I have ready to run up an engine I’ve got to work on tomorrow.

Yes it’s a 50 and yes I fired it

 

[bricol]

Finished yesterday. Started this a few months ago, but realised I needed a larger welding table.
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Now fitted under my power hacksaw.

All I need to do now is work out where to mount the electrics box.

Forget the saw, an uncovered photo of the registered traction engine please

 

[MattF]

Made replacements for the braindead hardened tip screws which hold the parallel guide in place on the Bosch 12V saw. Only used that guide once, & they left the inevitable gouges/burrs on it.



As you can see, where it used to say 13.

Originals & replacements.



Fitted.

 

[The Artilleryman]

Forget the saw, an uncovered photo of the registered traction engine please

Displayed as a working engine, ie as the full size engines would have looked in there working days.
Not many shows happening this year, but hopefully a few more next year, and if I'm going to keep on road running it I will have to put rubber tyres on it.

It's partly dismantled to sort out the incorrectly drilled weigh shaft bracket, but as no shows till June it's on the back burner for the moment.

 

[Brad93]

Making worn stuff round again

 

[Richiew]

Forget the saw, an uncovered photo of the registered traction engine please

@The Artilleryman
If you didn't already know. THEY MISS NOTHING ON THIS FORUM!!

 

[qwakers]

made wall taller.

just the steelwork to go in and the floor to pour...

finished the grunt work, just need to pour the floor and fit the steelwork.

started looking like a (almost) finished pit...

 

[bricol]

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Displayed as a working engine, ie as the full size engines would have looked in there working days.
Not many shows happening this year, but hopefully a few more next year, and if I'm going to keep on road running it I will have to put rubber tyres on it.

It's partly dismantled to sort out the incorrectly drilled weigh shaft bracket, but as no shows till June it's on the back burner for the moment.

I like that - when the wheels dull down a bit, it'll look perfect

I keep looking at Steam Traction World site . . . while I own the gear, and can design stuff to be made on it, my skills in actually doing so to a decent tolerance are less than ideal.

 

[bricol]

Don't forget a recess around the edge to locate the covering boards around the almost finished pit!

 

[qwakers]

thats what the steel work is for, it also will form the runners for my air over hydraulic pit lifting beam.

 

[Agroshield]

If it rocks back and fore I'll lift lift it and put a wood beam behind the front wheels and the same at the rear

See here for an idea. Made of something with more ferrousity, it would do well.

 

[mechman]

finished the grunt work, just need to pour the floor and fit the steelwork.

started looking like a (almost) finished pit...

Have you an escape plan?

 

[selectedgrub]

It rubs the lotion on it's skin.