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Mike Pinches
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I've only ridden there once, your right it's not an easy track to learn. The race is at the start of June so will try and fit a trackday in during April to try and figure out where I'm going.
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Sergei Slovenija
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Suddenly, long cylindrical gas cartridges for a manual propane torch ended, and burners for short cylinders were rather weak for annealing stainless steel.
I had to remember how, 20 years ago, I had to remake a similar type of burners, literally hundreds of pieces, to be powered by a large gas cylinder.
While there is no lathe, make do with what you have. Tomorrow I will mount a long video in the style of "here I am sawing, here I am drilling, here I am soldering, here I am ..." well, you understand what style we are talking about
Done wrong and won't work (c)
I had to remember how, 20 years ago, I had to remake a similar type of burners, literally hundreds of pieces, to be powered by a large gas cylinder.
While there is no lathe, make do with what you have. Tomorrow I will mount a long video in the style of "here I am sawing, here I am drilling, here I am soldering, here I am ..." well, you understand what style we are talking about
Done wrong and won't work (c)
Sergei Slovenija
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I'm sorry, I can't figure out what "yellow cans" are, what's the context in that? Red telephone booth - I understand that, but canisters?
I have a lot of gas cylinders for a forklift, a separate quest was to find a special adapter for this type of necks. It's good that I found it a couple of years ago, for a propane smelting furnace.
Our cans of propane are red, and they always run out suddenly. Oh yeah!
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Great machines those. Spent a lot of time alongside one of those as an apprentice........Happy dayz
Sergei Slovenija
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In the UK, the steering wheel in the car is on the wrong side and the license plates of the car are also yellow ... And gas cans too ...
It will be hard for me to sleep knowing this now
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I'm currently installing PVC waste and vent pipes for an upstairs bathroom that we're adding in the old house we're restoring. To make my work a little easier, I fabbed up a very simple clamping jig to hold the pipe while I cut it. There's not much to it. I simply welded legs onto a piece of steel angle and softened the sharp corners of the angle to avoid making dings in the PVC. It's mounted on a piece of heavy plywood, which can be clamped to some sawhorses or whatever.
I clamp the pipe in place with a Vise-Grip chain clamp and a small piece of steel angle, and then I cut it with a Ridgid 154-P "quick acting" tubing cutter that has a special wheel for cutting plastic pipe. It makes a nice clean cut with no mess. I use a Reed DEB4 deburring tool to remove the outer burr and put a small chamfer on the edge. I use a swivel-type deburring tool to remove the inner burr.
To make it faster to select the correct chain clamp link for each pipe size, I applied dabs of five different colors of paint to the appropriate chain links for each pipe size. (Note: These photos were taken before I applied the color coding.)
Cutting a piece of 3" PVC pipe:
Removing the burr and chamfering 1-1/2" PVC pipe:
I clamp the pipe in place with a Vise-Grip chain clamp and a small piece of steel angle, and then I cut it with a Ridgid 154-P "quick acting" tubing cutter that has a special wheel for cutting plastic pipe. It makes a nice clean cut with no mess. I use a Reed DEB4 deburring tool to remove the outer burr and put a small chamfer on the edge. I use a swivel-type deburring tool to remove the inner burr.
To make it faster to select the correct chain clamp link for each pipe size, I applied dabs of five different colors of paint to the appropriate chain links for each pipe size. (Note: These photos were taken before I applied the color coding.)
Cutting a piece of 3" PVC pipe:
Removing the burr and chamfering 1-1/2" PVC pipe:
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The steering wheel is on the correct sideIn the UK, the steering wheel in the car is on the wrong side and the license plates of the car are also yellow ... And gas cans too ...
It will be hard for me to sleep knowing this now
Stop being like America
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I still have a RHD car here, rarely a disadvantage other than for overtaking, but there’s so little traffic around here it’s not often I need to.
Until the late sixties(?) trucks in Italy were RHD - it was reckoned to be safer as they had a better view of the edge of the road in mountainous areas, and could see to get closer to buildings on narrow streets.
Until the late sixties(?) trucks in Italy were RHD - it was reckoned to be safer as they had a better view of the edge of the road in mountainous areas, and could see to get closer to buildings on narrow streets.
In the UK, the steering wheel in the car is on the wrong side and the license plates of the car are also yellow ... And gas cans too ...
It will be hard for me to sleep knowing this now
the little yellow gas bottles are MAPP gas, which is hotter than those propane torches etc. :-)
Sergei Slovenija
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This is a banter)) I drove with the right wheel for 20 years on the roads of the European standard.The steering wheel is on the correct side
Stop being like America
Sergei Slovenija
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In my opinion, we also have MAPP gas in red tins. And the price of it bites the pocket
I have enough propane. I want to make a soldering torch, on compressed air + propane. MAPP is definitely not needed.
Example
Rothenberger MAPP Mapp Disposable Gas Cylinder 400g - Screwfix
Order online at Screwfix.com. Burns longer and hotter and solders faster than propane. Ideal gas for high performance soldering work. FREE next day delivery available, free collection in 1 minute.
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unless original MAPP gas was different?
you can buy oxygen generators you know?
saw some videos on YouTube years back where people use them for brazing
think most people had an oxygen generators (or a few) feeding into a small compressor - oxygen was only generated slowly and at low pressure, so the compressor stored it for them (just used a normal air compressor)
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There was only one plant in the world making mapp and it stopped. I don’t know why it’s still called that, trade mark I suppose, but what you buy now isn’t the proper mapp.Rothenberger MAPP Mapp Disposable Gas Cylinder 400g - Screwfix
Order online at Screwfix.com. Burns longer and hotter and solders faster than propane. Ideal gas for high performance soldering work. FREE next day delivery available, free collection in 1 minute.www.screwfix.com
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unless original MAPP gas was different?
Edit:
You can read it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPP_gas
