Today I acquired...........

[arther dailey]

better keep them oiled ,it might be some time ! going by current pull yer pants down prices , Thankyou for the kind offer its much appreciated, now getting back to the original trade my bil is the exact opposite , wants to borrow my mig gas, welder and wire to do a job for a mate , oh ye he has got his own but his bottles bigger so would be soo much easier to use all my kit than his own... , I declined his kind offer he genuinely couldnt understand or thinks I am a complete ....

 

[Kram]

Trying to clock compound and getting annoyed with it! Got that done now trying to clock chuck and getting just as annoyed.
Need either a better compound or way to mount it.

Edit wrong thread!

 

[Seadog]

You need to think about where the pivot point of the compound is in relation to the DTI mount and the stylus. It can be a pain (speaking from experience).

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and a several boxes of tooling courtesy of my BIL

Fixed that for you

You lucky man, you!!

 

[Jan-DIY]

Today got my Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 51.
Also got several Selco Mig/Tig machines for spares. And a Merkle Ac/Dc Tig. And a orbitalum Tig welder.

 

[rosinante]

This , a big cast iron pot , any ideas what's it for ?.weight about 60 lbs , found in Cornwall

 

[Pete.]

If I had to guess I would say it's a large pump discharge pipe connector.

 

[Hood]

These turned up today, cost me just over £100 which seems quite expensive but the SL head alone is over £200 list price.

The insert seating is interesting.

And the underside of the inserts to match.

They are for the Aniti Vibe boring bar I got a while back for free.

Temporary coolant connection for testing before I rig up a better connection.

It works.

I am well impressed with the bar, 1mm DOC in some steel pipe.

 

[rosinante]

If I had to guess I would say it's a large pump discharge pipe connector.

Hi , it is a container of some sort, can see where you are coming from though

 

[dobbslc]

These turned up today, cost me just over £100 which seems quite expensive but the SL head alone is over £200 list price.

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The insert seating is interesting.

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And the underside of the inserts to match.
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They are for the Aniti Vibe boring bar I got a while back for free.


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Temporary coolant connection for testing before I rig up a better connection.



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It works.

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I am well impressed with the bar, 1mm DOC in some steel pipe.

I said out loud to myself "Ooo beautiful" when I hear that start cutting!
Am I sad?

 

[4String.]

A nice alloy layout triangle and a framing square that will come in handy for this weekend's project which will be (hopefully...) converting a circular saw and some 3/4" board into a table saw.

 

[MattF]

Am I sad?

Not that it'll come as any surprise, but yes.

 

[dobbslc]

I'm in good company here then...

 

[JEZGUZ]

A large lump of steel in the shape of a Sweeney & Blocksidge Fly Press that Seriesonewelder tempted me with. It's still in the boot of the car, (got to borrow an engine hoist to get it out) as its too pigging heavy to lift. The next project is to build a stand for the wee beastie.

 

[Jacktegla]

Crap photo but it's here.
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Whats your opinion on it so far. Is it 240v

 

[Turbo]

I was at a site clearance auction last weekend & went a bit mad!

Inside the van are.

6mm thick 5 bar aluminium tread plate, 1 of 10x5', 1 of 5x5' & 6 of 8x2' Got it all for £350 which may seem expensive but a sheet of 8x4 on its own retails at £450!

Rothenberger 20251 Tristand with a Nr 70711 up to 4" pipe vice fitted. It has holes in the top for bending pipe plus hooks for tools.

I got it for £93 but the retail on the stand alone is £495, the vice is another £325! Here it is alongside its Record cousin.

Plan is to remove the pipe vice & fit a bench vice to make a portable vice.

6 x 3m lengths of unistrut, each with 13a sockets & steel conduit attached. Once stripped it yielded me a lot of conduit & fittings, an isolator plus 10 MK double metal clad sockets & boxes.

 

[selectedgrub]

Wow that's expensive.
I got a 5mm sheet the other day (10 x 5) for around your money £100

 

[The Artilleryman]

Another delivery from my go to drills/taps & dies company. Tracey Tools.

Taps and dies are just to make up full sets of each size I have.

The drills are 14mm and 33/64" for an up coming job.
Cast iron bracket in which the hole was drilled uphill - shaft through the hole should be horizontal, but it slopes and has worn the linkage on the end.
So I need to drill out the hole to 14mm shrink fit a piece of cast iron bar and then re drill, should be drilled to 1/2""the reamed to 33/64" , but this is tooling for a one off job that will sit in the draw for ever.
The 14mm drill is 214mm long, hole is 5"long, probably a few days work, done in stages, to make sure I get it right.

The smallest size my model steam supplier had for cast iron bar was 30mm - that's going to make a hell of a mess on the lathe.

The joys of model engineering.

 

[Fraserb]

Whats your opinion on it so far. Is it 240v

Yeah 240v, and so far so good, there's nothing fancy on it just power and wire speed adjustment but it welds spot on.

 

[nickk]

Extraction for the shed.hopefully keep the place cleaner grinding dust won’t settle everywhere.