Stuff you have made today

[bricol]

For example that chain is likely knackered. But it won't be replaced until it breaks

And I bet the quote to replace the idler and sprockets at the same time, so as to avoid wearing the new chain out rapidly, will be rejected.

As would any idea of preventative maintenance plan.

Saw some pictures of 3/4" pitch pin chain sprockets this week used to prior to an oven in a plant - the gullet of the teeth so worn, they must have been double the original depth - yet new chain fitted recently . . .

 

[Brad93]

And I bet the quote to replace the idler and sprockets at the same time, so as to avoid wearing the new chain out rapidly, will be rejected.

As would any idea of preventative maintenance plan.

Saw some pictures of 3/4" pitch pin chain sprockets this week used to prior to an oven in a plant - the gullet of the teeth so worn, they must have been double the original depth - yet new chain fitted recently . . .

I don't even bother quoting anymore. I think I posted some pictures of the work I did on the enrobers here? All new chains and shafts. Well they've now got another moulder which is absolutely dead, but they need it so are bodging it every day. Sending me photos of measurements of shafts and keyways with a tape measure...

Just send me the bloody machine. I can't bring a lathe to your bakery!

 

[Brad93]

16mm thick. The thickest steel that can be pierced with my Hypertherm.

Grill for this fire pit my old man made. Believe it or not that pressure vessel was in a hedge and had been used for lpg at one of his customers houses. They stopped using lpg for heating 25+ years ago and swapped to heating oil. God knows where it came from or the pressure it could take. The domed ends are 45-50mm thick.

 

[northwest]

Well, I tried to run a couple of these off in a bit of a rush, this isn't the first time I have done this and probably wont be the last but it is bloody annoying. They needed to be 27mm long, the parting tool is 2mm wide. They are therefore 2mm too bloody short!



Ho Hum!

 

[Onoff]

Do you often work on bakery equipment or do you just knead the dough?

Ooh you're on a roll!

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Ooh you're on a roll!

You're just saying that to butter me up.

 

[Cobbler]

You're just saying that to butter me up.

Need to use your loaf though.

 

[Rannsachair]

I almost made a 1/4BSF to 5/16 Whitworth adaptor in Stainless, just finishing the tapping when:

Presto taps ordered to replace a no name BSF tap.

 

[4String.]

A man-sized Rusty Nail while watching a documentary about the search for Shackleton's Endurance .

 

[Ton-up]

Are you not allowed in the house?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

more fake furniture.

TV In the middle

 

[slim_boy_fat]

A man-sized Rusty Nail

It's YEARS since I had one of those!! Is that the Aldi malt which has won awards? I've tried it but prefer the Lidl one which comes from Islay.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

One for the house for a change. Done and dusted in a day. An achievement with 3 boys roaming the garden.

I did have an alterior motive.

I can clear stuff off these shelves to the left now and build new racks. Need to shoehorn another mixer in next to my current mixer.

 

[Farside]

Need to use your loaf though.

I'm cutting this short, as it's too flaky.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[4String.]

It's YEARS since I had one of those!! Is that the Aldi malt which has won awards? I've tried it but prefer the Lidl one which comes from Islay.

I think Ben Bracken is from Lidl, and while you wouldn't expect much from a relatively cheap brand it's reasonably decent on it's own right.

Mind you, it's disturbingly easy to drink in a Rusty Nail . The standard recipe is one part Drambuie to 2 parts Whisky but OH left me unattended for too long last night and I got through 2 very large glasses of it. I've just checked how much my glass holds and it appears that I downed 12 measures last night , which explains why I have a somewhat thick head this morning .

 

[4String.]

Are you not allowed in the house?

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[Johnnybravo]

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A man-sized Rusty Nail while watching a documentary about the search for Shackleton's Endurance .

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A man-sized Rusty Nail while watching a documentary about the search for Shackleton's Endurance .

A man after my own heart. Rusty nails are a firm favourite

 

[nickk]

Emergency this am,the sawmill have a french engineer installing a new rail mounted saw,he needed this arm extending.
Never seen this size channel before,64/42 and tapered still.

 

[Maker]

Nice rigid setup...

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It's the body of a Godwin water pump, my dad chewed a hole in the bottom of the casting to get better access to a valve (Which I need to make next). I tried drilling it by hand but a 15mm drill through a nearly 15mm hole, in brass, was going to break my wrists. Boring head was much safer, would have been even easier if I had an angle plate (Or a vertical mill) but this worked fine. Just bored it out to a clean round hole and machined a plug to solder in.
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Didn't have a big enough solid piece of brass so I made the plug in two pieces, and the inner piece moved while it was hot so it's not as pretty as it could be, I might put it back on the mill to clean it up. I thought about redoing it but it took ages to get the casting hot with my little torch. There were two stripped threads which I also bored out and plugged, need to buy some BSW taps to repair those.
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The piston seals with leather cup washers, same diameter as a press I made years ago but deeper, so that just needed boring a bit deeper. No idea why I made it from such a massive chunk of steel, it was one of the first things I made when I got the lathe, I think I was just excited to turn something so big.
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I tried it out but I think I might have overtightened it.
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Looks like it would have worked if I gave it a few fewer uggaduggas.

Tomorrow's job is a check valve, there's three buried in the casting and very hard to measure, the one he took out looks like this.
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I finally got around to making that check valve.


Looks pretty good if I do say so myself. The BSP thread is a bit loose, I couldn't find any wire suitable to measure over the threads so I made a test piece and made a note of how far I moved the top slide, the test piece was a snug fit so I don't know what happened there It doesn't really matter though, a bit of loctite 557 and anything will seal.




Looks like this fitted, there's a leather washer and a spring to go on the shaft. You can also see one of the threads I repaired there, BS2236 very kindly lent me the taps to do it with, confirming my suspicion that this forum is the best place on the Internet.


I also made the quickest, dirtiest pin spanner to tighten the valve.