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Finally got the light brackets welded on and a coat of primer. A couple of my welds I not happy with. The v down was OK but the underneath and top I not happy with.
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dobbslc
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@Kram3rd day this week Ive lost my safety glasses, looked everywhere.
Rigged up the lathe extraction. This little fan shifts plenty of air with a bit of pressure.
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32mm pipe. 35-37mm hole through wall. Could use ideas how to finish the outside.
Painted the shed celing and walls. Get a lot of midges and small flies in shed. Hard to see where to swat when its dirty!
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Keep putting my hand in it
Try one of these.
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After I see that bowl I want to burn my wood 
But I drilled holes to 85.3mm and cut some copper pipe to 101.5mm leaving just enough to bite in with a whack,
I then flared with a wad punch and ball peened over.
But I drilled holes to 85.3mm and cut some copper pipe to 101.5mm leaving just enough to bite in with a whack,
I then flared with a wad punch and ball peened over.
Just don't put it on a public forum first . . . oh hang-on . . .Get a Patent, sell the rights, and retire.
Alternative view - get a patent, pay some expensive legal types lots of money attempting to defend it, go bust, live in a tent under a bridge
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Yeah, rule #1
Patents aren't worth **** unless you have the financial muscles to defend it
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Yeah, rule #1
Parents aren't worth **** unless you have the financial muscles to defend it
Auto-correct, perchance?
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Could have been a good statement to, just replace the last bit with ...unless they have financial musclesAuto-correct, perchance?
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That's the hard way. Sell it initially, or establish getting royalties, and carry on enjoying life without worry...................................... Alternative view - get a patent, pay some expensive legal types lots of money attempting to defend it, go bust, live in a tent under a bridge
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Finally managed to weld the truck bed pillars ,I started maybe 5 threads about but never managed to complete the job ,or because of lockdowns , other problems ,lack of time ,or just not able to find a day with my friend (truck owner) when we were both free.
And happened that he destroyed one yesterday
So come over there , remove the side panels ,Cut the welds ,then break the parts free using the gentle tap of a 5kg sledge hammer,clean the parts,weld prep , sides back on,lock them in place , aligned the pillars using F clamps.
Tack the parts using E6013 , fully welded them using E7018.
Each pillar required 2 vertical fillets, and a flat one ,350mm of weld
Then had to modify the rear panel.
Still have more to do on this truck ,add hooks , make a spread retaining bar , replace the sides, make two pillars for additional side panels (to increase the hight )
Repair a fender, adding turn indicators
Unfortunately working under the sun on sunday , with almost 35°C I've forgotten to make photos but
I'll make some whenever possible.
An odyssey lasted for almost two years
And happened that he destroyed one yesterday
So come over there , remove the side panels ,Cut the welds ,then break the parts free using the gentle tap of a 5kg sledge hammer,clean the parts,weld prep , sides back on,lock them in place , aligned the pillars using F clamps.
Tack the parts using E6013 , fully welded them using E7018.
Each pillar required 2 vertical fillets, and a flat one ,350mm of weld
Then had to modify the rear panel.
Still have more to do on this truck ,add hooks , make a spread retaining bar , replace the sides, make two pillars for additional side panels (to increase the hight )
Repair a fender, adding turn indicators
Unfortunately working under the sun on sunday , with almost 35°C I've forgotten to make photos but
I'll make some whenever possible.
An odyssey lasted for almost two years
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This weekend I decided to rearrange my chisel wall. This is what it looked like before:
This is what it looks like so far:
The hole allows access to the switches for the door and for the battery charger. The plywood panel is held on with a couple of parallel French cleats, so it can be lifted off very easily if needed.
As you can probably tell there are a few more things to add to panel, but there should be loads more space now. While I was making French cleats, I attached a couple to two of the ceiling joists and made a couple of panels (again with space spare) for some power tools. The cleats are handy as I can arrange the tools on the panel while it's lying on the bench rather than working above head-height.
The height of these panels was very carefully chosen such that the bottom of the panel is more than an inch above my head when I stand on tip-toes!
This is what it looks like so far:
The hole allows access to the switches for the door and for the battery charger. The plywood panel is held on with a couple of parallel French cleats, so it can be lifted off very easily if needed.
As you can probably tell there are a few more things to add to panel, but there should be loads more space now. While I was making French cleats, I attached a couple to two of the ceiling joists and made a couple of panels (again with space spare) for some power tools. The cleats are handy as I can arrange the tools on the panel while it's lying on the bench rather than working above head-height.
The height of these panels was very carefully chosen such that the bottom of the panel is more than an inch above my head when I stand on tip-toes!
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Added a few more things to the new panel (including a safety ledge between the two rows of chisels):
I think I've now got everything that was there before up except the jeweller's saw (which I never used). I've also added the compass plane and the marking gauge and I've still got loads of space left, so I'm much happier with this arrangement. Hopefully the new pen pot should be easier to get things in and out of - the old one was rammed:
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Lights are all bolted on. Paint done but need to rub down and paint the rest of it under there. Got wiring to do. All n all I am 50 percent happy
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The only problem is that Mercedes are likely to take legal action if you mention Mercedes when advertising. A very good friend designed and made a few tools for servicing a well known American motorcycle , something to do with the valve gear IIRC , he sold a few on eBay as well as to the local motorcycle dealers workshop guys as it saved a few hours of work, he stopped selling them after a threatening letter from the motorcycle manufacturers lawyersGet a Patent, sell the rights, and retire.
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Im aware I could have got one off amazon for about two pound delivered, but this was more fun. Dinse 35-50 cross drilled 6mm with a bit of 8mm brass.
Silver soldered, turned and decided to broach the pin. Brass is very nice to broach!
Fits better than the original.
Dimensions to make - 13mm diameter, 19mm long. 5x5mm square pin located 10-15mm from shoulder with 16mm diameter.
Silver soldered, turned and decided to broach the pin. Brass is very nice to broach!
Fits better than the original.
Dimensions to make - 13mm diameter, 19mm long. 5x5mm square pin located 10-15mm from shoulder with 16mm diameter.
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Back in the 1980's I made up a special tool for removing a countershaft nut on an American V-twin bike transmission. The guy I bought it off of didn't realize it had left hand threads and forced things until it stripped them. As there was no room to get to get a nut splitter between the clutch plate rods he gave up.
I simply took a deep socket, heated up and annealed the edge, then drilled and tapped it for several set screws and welded it up to a T-handled bar. The socket was slipped over the nut and the setscrews turned in to the recess under it, and then with two feet against the transmission and my weight pulled back on it, I turned the nut counter clockwise releasing it. As the counter shaft was hardened steel, there was no damage to the threads. So for anyone that has experienced this situation, that's how its done.
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That's a very old trick - useful though! I've used a two-leg parallel bearing puller in a similar situation, rotating the legs (suitably clamped together) rather than the threaded bar. I've also seen three welding rods fused onto the nut and then twisted together with a bolt jammed between them and the stud - does the same thing, just requires a bit of thinking and seeing what is to hand.
On a particular car forum, a lad in American was documenting his engine rebuild (now they are over 25yrs old, the cars are able to be imported into the USA without having to meet their regs) - mentioned he'd used his fantastic super duper impact gun to undo the crankshaft bolt - it put up a fight and must have been well seized in, as he broke the crank . .. the posted picture wasn't good to look at!
I asked in reply, if he had been aware it was a left hand thread . . .
Oops!
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Today I made the mistake of getting over confident. Wanted a big funnel. Had a handrail weather cowl and bit of handrail. Ground off the galv, banged in some panel pins to give a nominal gap and set about it with the MIG.
Ground down the series of tacks.
It leaked so I blobbed a bit more weld on. Ended up blowing through all over the place. Kept eating into the thin funnel material.
Tbh I wasn't letting the welds cool before moving to the next and started getting the hump with it
Gave up!
Ground down the series of tacks.
It leaked so I blobbed a bit more weld on. Ended up blowing through all over the place. Kept eating into the thin funnel material.
Tbh I wasn't letting the welds cool before moving to the next and started getting the hump with it
Gave up!
