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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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TYA wax for tools.
This bee's wax is from 2 hives, last year left in a wild meadow area of a local farm. No true smell, but it is a hard wax.
The honey is removed by a spinning frame, the wax scraped off and melted, by the double pan method and cast into blocks.
Take away containers.
Here you see the wax smashed into blocks and white spirit.
Melting it, slow, must be slow.
Allow to cool.
Soft to apply, hard finish tool wax.
TYA wax for tools.
This bee's wax is from 2 hives, last year left in a wild meadow area of a local farm. No true smell, but it is a hard wax.
The honey is removed by a spinning frame, the wax scraped off and melted, by the double pan method and cast into blocks.
Take away containers.
Here you see the wax smashed into blocks and white spirit.
Melting it, slow, must be slow.
Allow to cool.
Soft to apply, hard finish tool wax.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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That's not all the wax from 2 hives, just some of it.
Opps my bad.
That's not all the wax from 2 hives, just some of it.
Opps my bad.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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A few weeks ago I got this matched pair od oden Floor board clamps.
They worked, were complete, but have had a hard life. 70ish years old. So someone had their money worth.
This does not show how much of a fight they put up to come to bits. But only one part failed on both.
The spilt pin holding the cam shell jaw to the pivet pin.
It is in the picture.
We needed heat, coffee, hammers, pullers, a bad word, punches, pliers, a stamping foot(Cramp as pulling a gear off struck, when it was red hot.)heat, lots. Oil, more punches, smaller hammers, another puller, a cold chisel, a file and a cold beer.
Baking dry, after soaking in citric acid, last night and this morning I dumped the fluid and replaced it with warm washing sodar mix and kept it heated to get the oils out.
Assembled.
The holes for the shafts were honed out, with a old gun barrel last.
Lots of grease in the assembly. The surplus will be removed.
The cam shell clamp was dressed with a oil stone to remove the burrs from the teeth.
The pins for the gears were heated to bright red, left to cool in sand. This softened them to allow the ends to burr over, as they were built, locking the gears.
Waiting to be waxed.
The paint is a Holts rattle can, ford colour range.
They worked, were complete, but have had a hard life. 70ish years old. So someone had their money worth.
This does not show how much of a fight they put up to come to bits. But only one part failed on both.
The spilt pin holding the cam shell jaw to the pivet pin.
It is in the picture.
We needed heat, coffee, hammers, pullers, a bad word, punches, pliers, a stamping foot(Cramp as pulling a gear off struck, when it was red hot.)heat, lots. Oil, more punches, smaller hammers, another puller, a cold chisel, a file and a cold beer.
Baking dry, after soaking in citric acid, last night and this morning I dumped the fluid and replaced it with warm washing sodar mix and kept it heated to get the oils out.
Assembled.
The holes for the shafts were honed out, with a old gun barrel last.
Lots of grease in the assembly. The surplus will be removed.
The cam shell clamp was dressed with a oil stone to remove the burrs from the teeth.
The pins for the gears were heated to bright red, left to cool in sand. This softened them to allow the ends to burr over, as they were built, locking the gears.
Waiting to be waxed.
The paint is a Holts rattle can, ford colour range.
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Finally pulled my finger out and wrote a page for my website about my slow-speed grinder:
www.cgtk.co.uk
CGTK - Slow-Speed Grinder
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TYA was not born with a silver spoon in is mouth.
So I got 2 silver spoons the other day.
Both Hall marked, just been to last to check it out.
Both needed a clean.
But I was being lazy.
So we hatched a plan.
Why not, the man in The Repair shop said it worked.
It does.
A few hard to get of marks, need some jewellers rouge to remove them, more time in the solution.
In use, today.
So any one wants to give me their family silver I will look after it.
So I got 2 silver spoons the other day.
Both Hall marked, just been to last to check it out.
Both needed a clean.
But I was being lazy.
So we hatched a plan.
Why not, the man in The Repair shop said it worked.
It does.
A few hard to get of marks, need some jewellers rouge to remove them, more time in the solution.
In use, today.
So any one wants to give me their family silver I will look after it.
bigegg
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Silver? Or plated?
The green corrosion points towards a copper layer, which would suggest plated.
There are some plated items which have, not quite "fake", but "easily misinterpreted", shall we say? stamps.
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Silver, hall mark says so.
The green is from the copper pipe it was under.
I do like to rummage in box's at salvage yards.
Where there is muck, there is brass.
Beside, if it was plated, after that cleaning metod it would not be shinnnnnnnnny, or in use.
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Bought one of the lasered 10mm worktops from @MattH and wanted some clamps that would go in the tooling holes.
They seem to be asking stupid money for them so made my own out of the cheapest F Clamps I could find and some M16 Shoulder bolts.
Worked out about 4 quid a clamp and they work very well so I'm happy.
They seem to be asking stupid money for them so made my own out of the cheapest F Clamps I could find and some M16 Shoulder bolts.
Worked out about 4 quid a clamp and they work very well so I'm happy.
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Not needed, they have plastic barrels they use for that.
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Bench mods tonight.
Made a frame so the bandsaw sits level with the main bench, absolutely no new materials were used in its construction, there's plasma off cuts, cow brush off cuts and a muck spreader floor slat all in there.
Next job was making a removable holder for the tube roller, 2 pto shaft off cuts for this job.
Made a frame so the bandsaw sits level with the main bench, absolutely no new materials were used in its construction, there's plasma off cuts, cow brush off cuts and a muck spreader floor slat all in there.
Next job was making a removable holder for the tube roller, 2 pto shaft off cuts for this job.
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Today finished my pedestal for a bench grinder.
Rebuilt the rotator /log Turner,with 1 new bearing and housing,as the driven sprocket was out of alignment with the driver I counterbored it 3 mm ,hope fully stop the chain snapping .ill try and remember to photograph it installed in the saw bed,the saw itself is a belter.
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Sorry, I've obviously missed this, what's this for?
Seadog
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Today I made a rack for my AXA tool holders. I used a piece of scrap 18mm ply and the blocks that @Dr.Al sent me November last. (If you make any more I could use some 
)
I just need to find a spot on the wall to mount it.
Also another couple of offcuts were used to mount my ER collet board. It had been taking up drawer space and was a pain to get to every time I needed a collet. Now they're right to the mill and close to my lathe.
)I just need to find a spot on the wall to mount it.
Also another couple of offcuts were used to mount my ER collet board. It had been taking up drawer space and was a pain to get to every time I needed a collet. Now they're right to the mill and close to my lathe.
Turning tree trunks for quarter sawing,they have 3 of them ,saw takes logs up to about 7m.
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Look forward to seeing this !
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Today I made some holes disappear and fitted a new lock to my recently acquired top box.
the lock was kaput and it looked like it had had a hasp and staple self tappered on,
got a couple of Lowe and fletcher cam locks of fleabay with nice machined bits on
cut and drilled and filled a bit of stainless
epoxyed and clamped to the front of the box ,I might paint it red or just leave as is
only real pain was when it's unlocked you couldn't remove the key so a bit of filling on the key lug sorted that
I didn't really need it to be locking as it's just for home but thought it would tidy it up a bit.
when I get time I'll pull all the drawers as some of the rubber draw retainers need looked at.
the lock was kaput and it looked like it had had a hasp and staple self tappered on,
got a couple of Lowe and fletcher cam locks of fleabay with nice machined bits on
cut and drilled and filled a bit of stainless
epoxyed and clamped to the front of the box ,I might paint it red or just leave as is
only real pain was when it's unlocked you couldn't remove the key so a bit of filling on the key lug sorted that
I didn't really need it to be locking as it's just for home but thought it would tidy it up a bit.
when I get time I'll pull all the drawers as some of the rubber draw retainers need looked at.
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Put a steel plate behind the wood strips ...... for security as strips can easily & quietly be removed by any number of methods.
