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@James1979 Is it working well?
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James1979
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Spot on. There was a concern that he couldn’t knurl the pulley. There’s nothing to worry about there. When it was on air I could almost stop it on my hand with gloves on. This just rips metal off.
it’s not as fast as the air but that’s the cut off tool. I’m going to see if I can remedy that. No hose to get in the way and no waiting for the compressor even though mines a 3hp 150l it struggles on a stint.
along with my lathe I miss my hydrovane!
redlig
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WHY ???early last year I saw this on ebay, a educational toy for demonstrating how solar power works.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272425806540
and thought it might be a bit of fun to have it radio controlled using a "tank" speed controller, so each paddle is operated seperately.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143652897932
and using a single cell lipo battery and receiver for my other models I ended up with this
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now thats a much better toy to play with, who'd have thought you could do doughnuts or even drift it like a car......think I should have done this much earlier only problem is now that I have another project to do in the next few years which will be to convert this to radio control and have it spinning on its centre axis.
as I bought one of these to build last summer.
one day I'll have to grow up and stop playing with toys.
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I really like that, what was the donor tool?
James1979
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It was a M12 3” cut off tool. Having bought it and had it for a while I really couldn’t see the use for it to be honest! Mates boy Sooth has one - he installs hygienic plastic on walls and they use them to rip sheets but outside that I really can’t work out what it does that a grinder doesn’t.
Anyhow. I stole the idea from a guy on YT but he’s a yank and it’s for the murican tool. I listed the pros and cons in a want thread. If there’s a bit of interest I’ll put it all in it’s own thread to get it all together and not clog this one.
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It doesn't. They're basically just lighter & more compact than an angle grinder. I find the cutoff tool a lot easier to use than the grinder, for general work.
Stueeee
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Trying impose a little bit of order on the usual workshop chaos... All my car wiring cable has lived in a big plastic crate, impossible to see what's there without turning all the reels out. So I decided to make a simple cable tidy/rack which could sit on the floor where I'm working. Otherwise the rack can be stored/used hanging on the wall next to a workbench in one of garages here:
Olderisbetter
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Made a walking stick for a mate up the road out of a plum branch of a tree we trimmed 10 years ago it is not heavy but feels strong.
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Assuming you blasted it what did you go with water , dry vapour or bead etc.
I have some of these to clean up and only got a normal grit sand blasting cabinet at the moment.
This one was vapour blasted.
Very good came up nicely but a right mess and soaking wet.
Would try a dry soda next time instead first.
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Wired up the 3kw power supply. I did intend to make up brass contacts and a housing to make a removable connector, but I took the quick option of soldering.
Next job to make up a rear housing to fix the connectors, as the pcb traces wont last 5 minutes if they get strained.
Blue and white wires are for CAN, Ive got an esp32 and transceiver chip in the post, which will let me set voltage and current limit, then read off internally measured voltage/current/power.
Next job to make up a rear housing to fix the connectors, as the pcb traces wont last 5 minutes if they get strained.
Blue and white wires are for CAN, Ive got an esp32 and transceiver chip in the post, which will let me set voltage and current limit, then read off internally measured voltage/current/power.
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The wife wanted a stand for a tuff tray our daughter to do messy play on so popped down to the local scrappy for some tube and found some old van racking, much cutting, grinding, bad TIG welding, milling, painting and 3D printing later we have a fully adjustable stand. Annoyingly as the box had its holes punched and I wanted a box to slide inside this I had to mill the side off the smaller box.
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Thought I'd make my own visualiser (a downward pointing camera that would then project to the classroom screen, use them all the time at school) using my cheap £50 GoPro knock-off so I can record some lessons over the forthcoming period; I won't be teaching 'live' as the risk assessments and red tape are overwhelmingly disuasive and prohibitive.
The height and angles can be adjusted and there's some lead shot I found in the base so very stable. Made it out of aluminium so I broke out the Sherman 206P TIG welder over the weekend for some shameful welding - its been a while since I've done any alloy! The camera does create fisheye at such a close distance...
The height and angles can be adjusted and there's some lead shot I found in the base so very stable. Made it out of aluminium so I broke out the Sherman 206P TIG welder over the weekend for some shameful welding - its been a while since I've done any alloy! The camera does create fisheye at such a close distance...
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Nice rig you have made for the camera.
Looking at the distortion on screen, is it a 4k camera if so using it at 1080 will crop to a central part of the image and cut out some of the barrel distortion at the edge of the picture. You will have to move the camera a little higher but it might look better.
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, and clever idea using those Rice Krispies as a play medium - much easier to sweep up....
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