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

[Jan-DIY]

Needs a small makeup but technically it is in working condition with very few hours on arc.
Only con is the missing side panel but it is available for less than a kidney ;-)
And the pro is that it got the SP option.
So no time for hanging around on tv between Xmas.

 

[Maker]

A couple of pump controllers.

Christmas is here early!

As far as I can tell, they're VFDs with extra electronics to monitor pressure/flow sensors, adjust frequency to meet setpoints, communicate over Modbus, that sort of thing. Bluetooth too, apparently . The extra electronics must explain the new price, about 800 quid each . Hopefully they can ignore all their clever electronics and just be set to simple V/f control for three phase motors. Also hopefully they work, they were thrown out and I haven't tested them yet.

 

[Seadog]

We're at a bit of a strange crossroads I think. Someone mentions say Denco coils, long lost to memory for most. Turns out someone on Thingiverse has figured out how to model and print equivalent formers so you wind modern equivalents. Means we can dust off our Bernard Babani books by R A Penfold, F G Rayer etc.

Jackson variable capacitors, should be a doddle to recreate the plates with a laser cutter now. Mind you I seem to recall the PoWs in Colditz fabbing them from Old Holborn tins.

I've an old three-valve battery receiver I made that only ever had one coil. Time to dig it out and get winding

 

[Cobbler]

And round the corner in Soho - Lisle Street and Little Newport Street. Brave walking past 'St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin', and if you survived that there was Smiths on the same side - good for aluminium chassis's and occasional bouts of genuine surplus. I bought a Cossor 1035 oscilloscope there in 1970 and trusted a black cab to take it home for me unaccompanied - glad to say that it arrived !

Never did understand all those signs on doorways saying 'Model - Please walk up' - were they model planes, ships or what - they never did say

Very handy, close to the hospital of diseases of the skin. You could well be needing some sort of treatment after a visit.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Glad to see it arrived safe and sound. My idea of bolting it to 2 pallets for stability was correct - but it looks like there is a bolt missing?

Looks like he's already started to 'unload' it, since the nut's missing on the RH one? [probably too excited to wait....]

I did not know the term, I had to look it up:

View attachment 324364


But as a boy from St.Pauli I know now of course what is meant ...

Carsten

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That's a classy looking joint....

 

[redlig]

I use a (homemade) magnetic swarf stick for getting stuff out of a few awkward places when its being stubborn, but mostly just pull the long stuff out by hand and then use a dustpan & brush. The vacuum cleaner comes out occasionally, but I find the dustpan and brush quicker.

For pities sake stop bragging about your ability with a vacuum cleaner, if this gets out we will all end up as B****y housemaids.

 

[redlig]

Looks like he's already started to 'unload' it, since the nut's missing on the RH one? [probably too excited to wait....]


That's a classy looking joint....

I dread to think what goes on in the basement. Think F.w.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Hi all

Today, after many confusions, detours and customs formalities,
a package arrived from the English lands via the land of the Picts.

What might be in it?

Change gears for the ML7 ... one of them with caries ... hmmm

What else?

More gears ....

So far, no more cases of tooth decay with tooth loss ...

And more gears ...

And the best:
For the extremely important 40t with tooth loss, a friendly fellow forumist gave me a brand spanking new gear to go with it.

My most heartfelt thanks go to Wiltshire, Kent, Scotland.


Now the work begins with Ballistol, brush, brass brushes, toothbrushes in the tea tray and then the gears should be fresh again -
the tooth on the 40t will still be missing, but I don't have to do anything on its replacement.

And while I'm at it, I can also take care of this - just arrived:

I had tried it with the QCTP from Chinesium, not Banggood but the same stuff from eBay.de,
but I'm still not over the scrap that was delivered to me there.

I could not even get up to report here about it ....


This original swiss Multifix Aa - which you normally can't afford at all - someone had got together with his Weiler lathe and it fitted his lathe as little as many things I had got to mine. So you help where you can ...

Now I'm trying to see if I can't get this system adapted to my ML7 - should there be any effort involved, I'm much more motivated to do this than to get the China stuff workable!

Here is a replica holder whose vendor at least claims "German final inspection" for its product - assuming we all know where the stuff comes from, I'm satisfied with that for now.

And here now a fairly used original and a replica holder side by side .... let's see.

If it doesn't work out ok, yet I have not burned much money with it.


And then there was something in the package, which was not talked about before and whose exact purpose is not quite clear to me yet ...

Someone put a lot of work into it - Any idea?


Q: Is there a method to mend a tooth on a cast gear, like welding on and cutting off or something??? - cause I need two 40t ...


Have a wonderful evening everybody,


Carsten

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[redlig]

Delivered this morning a couple of Ltrs of Castrol 2 stroke oil .Also included was a free air freshener . Great I thought it will almost certainly smell of R30 or 747. Oh no! Smells like the inside of a whores Handbag. Now confined to the compost . Let's see what the worms make of that.

 

[Melvyn Best]

How do you know what the inside of a whores handbag smells like? Just asking, as you do

 

[minimutly]

Hi all

Today, after many confusions, detours and customs formalities,
a package arrived from the English lands via the land of the Picts.

View attachment 324370

What might be in it?

View attachment 324371

Change gears for the ML7 ... one of them with caries ... hmmm

What else?

More gears ....

View attachment 324372

So far, no more cases of tooth decay with tooth loss ...

And more gears ...

View attachment 324374


And the best:
For the extremely important 40t with tooth loss, a friendly fellow forumist gave me a brand spanking new gear to go with it.

View attachment 324375

My most heartfelt thanks go to Wiltshire, Kent, Scotland.


Now the work begins with Ballistol, brush, brass brushes, toothbrushes in the tea tray and then the gears should be fresh again -
the tooth on the 40t will still be missing, but I don't have to do anything on its replacement.

View attachment 324376


And while I'm at it, I can also take care of this - just arrived:


View attachment 324362

I had tried it with the QCTP from Chinesium, not Banggood but the same stuff from eBay.de,
but I'm still not over the scrap that was delivered to me there.

I could not even get up to report here about it ....


This original swiss Multifix Aa - which you normally can't afford at all - someone had got together with his Weiler lathe and it fitted his lathe as little as many things I had got to mine. So you help where you can ...

Now I'm trying to see if I can't get this system adapted to my ML7 - should there be any effort involved, I'm much more motivated to do this than to get the China stuff workable!

Here is a replica holder whose vendor at least claims "German final inspection" for its product - assuming we all know where the stuff comes from, I'm satisfied with that for now.

View attachment 324366


And here now a fairly used original and a replica holder side by side .... let's see.


View attachment 324367

If it doesn't work out ok, yet I have not burned much money with it.


And then there was something in the package, which was not talked about before and whose exact purpose is not quite clear to me yet ...

View attachment 324369

Someone put a lot of work into it - Any idea?


Q: Is there a methode to mend a tooth on a cast gear, like welding on and cutting off or something??? - cause I need two 40t ...


Have a wonderful evening everybody,


Carsten

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Nice!
There's someone on youtube brazed in a lump of spelter then recut the teeth on something like your 40 tooth. You could just make a new one?

 

[redlig]

How do you know what the inside of a whores handbag smells like? Just asking, as you do

I was hoping no-one would ask that.

 

[redlig]

You could sit in that cafe round the corner with all the winos from the doss house opposite whilst they made your order up I recall!

Filmers in Dartford, Stevensons/Stephensons in Bromley.....bought my first soldering iron (S R Brewster make) there.....Sendz in Southend, Rapid in Farningham.....all gone.

All gone including the people who knew what to do with what they sold all replaced by a generation who aren't interested ,in the main.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Nice!
There's someone on youtube brazed in a lump of spelter then recut the teeth on something like your 40 tooth. You could just make a new one?

Thanks!
Is it this guy:

???
Have yet to watch it ...

 

[minimutly]

Thanks!
Is it this guy:

???
Have yet to watch it ...

Yeah, that's the one.
Someone on here, made a v slot, machined a piece of steel (or cast iron), slotted it in and machined it to size.

 

[Pete.]

Yeah, that's the one.
Someone on here, made a v slot, machined a piece of steel (or cast iron), slotted it in and machined it to size.

I repaired a gear by glueing in a piece of cast iron. It's for a DSG lathe and still going strong:

Gear tooth repair

I had this gear from a DSG lathe to repair. It had one single busted tooth on it, probably from being dropped as there was no other damage at all. I decided to fit a new piece in and cut the one single tooth with an involute cutter. Here's the gear. 90 teeth 12DP 14.5PA. An inch thick with a...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[JMS1972]

Nice!
There's someone on youtube brazed in a lump of spelter then recut the teeth on something like your 40 tooth. You could just make a new one?

I've silver soldered a new tooth into a cast iron gear. Took some heat to do it but possible. As it's only one tooth it could be filed to shape easily enough.

 

[nickk]

For a change,this pile of galvanised steel welded tube was had at a reasonable £34/length,prices are stabilising and on a few orders,have even come down.

 

[Farside]

Misty the blunt quickly.

Then pass the dutchy to the left hand side.

If drilling Stella, lots of lub.

Good advice. She's never complained.

'Model - Please walk up'

Lady with large chest seeks French Polisher.

 

[Anguz]

A couple of pump controllers.
View attachment 324363
Christmas is here early!

As far as I can tell, they're VFDs with extra electronics to monitor pressure/flow sensors, adjust frequency to meet setpoints, communicate over Modbus, that sort of thing. Bluetooth too, apparently . The extra electronics must explain the new price, about 800 quid each . Hopefully they can ignore all their clever electronics and just be set to simple V/f control for three phase motors. Also hopefully they work, they were thrown out and I haven't tested them yet.

Spawn of the devil... gimme an abb drive anyday