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Carbide end mill.I made some fancy looking scrap.
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There's a work hardened spot and the end of a 3mm drill inside it.
Carbide end mill.I made some fancy looking scrap.
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There's a work hardened spot and the end of a 3mm drill inside it.
A new one ! what was wrong with the old one ?
I wanted tubeless wheels and that was going to be the best part of £3k so traded in my standard Africa Twin for an Adventure sport model which comes with tubeless. I originally wanted the Adventure Sport but it only came in red/white/blue or gloss black and I wasn't keen on either so went for the standard model that came in matt black. Then they announced the 2022 models and the gloss black was replaced by mattA new one ! what was wrong with the old one ?
I made some fancy looking scrap.
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There's a work hardened spot and the end of a 3mm drill inside it.
Monster. Do you need a degree to understand all the electronic bits / screens ?Made my cab a bit cleaner, will get the outside tomorrow.
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Monster. Do you need a degree to understand all the electronic bits / screens ?
Can you drill through from the other end and knock the broken bit out with a punch?I made some fancy looking scrap.
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There's a work hardened spot and the end of a 3mm drill inside it.
Some you win , some you don'tI made some fancy looking scrap.
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There's a work hardened spot and the end of a 3mm drill inside it.
I tried on numerous occasions to tig blades ..kept burning holes on every setting under the sun .. I now know it's no use thinking your argon is Ok if you don't look at the gauge & flow meter .. Gas sneaked out the turned off cylinfder months ago ...it had only had four or five minutes running time out of it .I had a go at tig with a snapped bandsaw blade, it would be nice to repair one, while the other good for testing, it is blunt.
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Set up on a heatsink with a bit of GFS to align.
View attachment 345329View attachment 345330Difficult. I did fill the hole and get fully welded and annealed, but it had bent up/twisted and no way to straighten it out.
I might try silver brazing instead, think it will be easier.
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so getting ready for silly season or have you started?Made my cab a bit cleaner, will get the outside tomorrow.
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so getting ready for silly season or have you started?
That OSB, oozes class.
I silver solder mine, works really well.I had a go at tig with a snapped bandsaw blade, it would be nice to repair one, while the other good for testing, it is blunt.
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Set up on a heatsink with a bit of GFS to align.
Difficult. I did fill the hole and get fully welded and annealed, but it had bent up/twisted and no way to straighten it out.
I might try silver brazing instead, think it will be easier.
It had formed a proper hard spot and I blunted two drills trying exactly that. I don't have any carbide and as cool as it would be to EDM it, the threads weren't a great fit anyway so I made another. Drilled the hole first this time and didn't have any more problems. It's an adapter to put a corny keg gas post on a cream whipper so I can fill it with a big co2 cylinder rather than pay silly money for 8g cartridges. I made a plastic one a while ago and always intended to make it again in stainless, so this is that.Can you drill through from the other end and knock the broken bit out with a punch?