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Ahhhh
. He'll be under instructions to bin it if it doesn't work as intended, or fails. 
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The gauge is an odd tapered thread, measuing 9.8mm small end and 10.3mm big end, doesnt seem to match any of the bsp/bspt spec... It wouldnt start in my 1/8" bsp tapped hole or the die on the gauge. Im thinking China used 28tpi for BSP but kept the same, slightly larger OD of NPT?
I eventually got the die to start and being brass, it cut quite nicely. A couple of adjustments and I got the gauge to seat in the right position! It will be thread locked so no problem if I missed.
Theres a tiny leak but I think thread lock will solve that.
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Today I got up, got dressed and had this lot cut, folded and delivered shortly after ten o'clocks! Bloody took it out of me I can tell you:
I have absolutely no idea what they are for but there was 75 of one size and 50 of another.
I have absolutely no idea what they are for but there was 75 of one size and 50 of another.
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What Pressbrake have you got?
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Hydrobrake 150 NO CNC capability.
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Not today, but last week, when I was working away.
But the camera memory card died, so I re-staged the key points.
The sledge/seige Morta is made from scrap and saved items.
The parts, laid out
The clamps are a set of pipe clamps from a Gas supression system. Fitted with m3 bross drome nuts on steel M3 studs.
The morta body was found in a scrap bin. In a company that does drain cleaning.
The RHS side had a 2mm rubber sleeve on it.
The mounting points is a brass bar, cut down of a Extinguisher head remoavel tool. The thread that fits the extinguisher head was striped.
It was cheeper to get a new tool than buy a die to fix the thread.
The firing pouring port is from a head of an Extinguisher.
The side frames are from a stowage box of hydrant service spares box. The smaller holes are drilled by me. The larger one I asked nicley at an engineering firm I was working in at the time.
The side studs are items I had in my van.
The sleeves are brass, from a pick up tube of an extinguisher. Cut down.
Bugger I did not notice the damage.
Assembled, te firing port is visable. By luck, more than designe it is in the right place.
Ready to loose a few Ball rounds.
Not ass I amde it over a few evenings last week, But a bit staged of the key points.
It should be able to let loose a few balls, for testing the idea.
Testing only, not for fun.
But the camera memory card died, so I re-staged the key points.
The sledge/seige Morta is made from scrap and saved items.
The parts, laid out
The clamps are a set of pipe clamps from a Gas supression system. Fitted with m3 bross drome nuts on steel M3 studs.
The morta body was found in a scrap bin. In a company that does drain cleaning.
The RHS side had a 2mm rubber sleeve on it.
The mounting points is a brass bar, cut down of a Extinguisher head remoavel tool. The thread that fits the extinguisher head was striped.
It was cheeper to get a new tool than buy a die to fix the thread.
The firing pouring port is from a head of an Extinguisher.
The side frames are from a stowage box of hydrant service spares box. The smaller holes are drilled by me. The larger one I asked nicley at an engineering firm I was working in at the time.
The side studs are items I had in my van.
The sleeves are brass, from a pick up tube of an extinguisher. Cut down.
Bugger I did not notice the damage.
Assembled, te firing port is visable. By luck, more than designe it is in the right place.
Ready to loose a few Ball rounds.
Not ass I amde it over a few evenings last week, But a bit staged of the key points.
It should be able to let loose a few balls, for testing the idea.
Testing only, not for fun.
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Sad to say, a few more stages images.
All three items were saved from the scrap yard on Saturday morning. The cases were flatterned and the round end.
This 30mm He round case was crushed at the end. But using a tapered turned mandle. From oak I managed to save the lower 2/3's. Mostly. So I cut it down and made a pen holder.
This was a 1955 40mm Bofa case.
This was all i could save. The brass was split, strenched and not recovable.
The percussion cap and holder had long gone. But a penny from the money box I got the other day fitted.
So it is fitted.
This thimble shot measure was rescued at the same time. I did not say it was not brass. But then I did not say it was silver either.
My bad?
Spot my new dimples?
I returned the oak I used to save the 30mm caseto turn this round again.
Ignore the pepper grinder.
It is not for black pepper now.
It will be used for black powder.
All three items were saved from the scrap yard on Saturday morning. The cases were flatterned and the round end.
This 30mm He round case was crushed at the end. But using a tapered turned mandle. From oak I managed to save the lower 2/3's. Mostly. So I cut it down and made a pen holder.
This was a 1955 40mm Bofa case.
This was all i could save. The brass was split, strenched and not recovable.
The percussion cap and holder had long gone. But a penny from the money box I got the other day fitted.
So it is fitted.
This thimble shot measure was rescued at the same time. I did not say it was not brass. But then I did not say it was silver either.
My bad?
Spot my new dimples?
I returned the oak I used to save the 30mm caseto turn this round again.
Ignore the pepper grinder.
It is not for black pepper now.
It will be used for black powder.
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Managed to check with the neighbour who gave me the 'practise' logs - as I suspected, they're fresh cut and not seasoned.
I did wonder and had my doubts - little wonder the socket was spinning. 
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I made a strange looking test part, very coarse tapered thread in a straight shaft, quite cool.
It's an expeller press, for crushing the oil out of nuts and seeds, the final part would be stainless, twice and long and narrower flights/wider flutes, probably more trapezoidal than square threadform too. In use it would slowly rotate in a housing, which I think needs lengthways grooves, seeds would be fed in at the "deep" end, be forced along to the shallow end, crushing them leaving the oil and any water in them to flow back along the grooves and out of a screen, and dry smushed up seed pulp to come out the end.
I probably won't actually build it though, I don't know how I'd machine the grooved housing, I don't know what I'd power it with or how I'd attach it, I doubt a Kitchenaid has the torque and I'd be worried about breaking the juice extractor if it seizes. Plus, I imagine for the oil to be any use in cooking it would need to go through a centrifuge after pressing to separate the oil from any water and any solids that make it through. You can actually buy an oil press to fit a juicer, not cheap though. It's good to know I can machine the auger anyway, I'll keep thinking about designing the rest of it until I get distracted by a new idea, I'll have moved on by tomorrow knowing me.
It's an expeller press, for crushing the oil out of nuts and seeds, the final part would be stainless, twice and long and narrower flights/wider flutes, probably more trapezoidal than square threadform too. In use it would slowly rotate in a housing, which I think needs lengthways grooves, seeds would be fed in at the "deep" end, be forced along to the shallow end, crushing them leaving the oil and any water in them to flow back along the grooves and out of a screen, and dry smushed up seed pulp to come out the end.
I probably won't actually build it though, I don't know how I'd machine the grooved housing, I don't know what I'd power it with or how I'd attach it, I doubt a Kitchenaid has the torque and I'd be worried about breaking the juice extractor if it seizes. Plus, I imagine for the oil to be any use in cooking it would need to go through a centrifuge after pressing to separate the oil from any water and any solids that make it through. You can actually buy an oil press to fit a juicer, not cheap though. It's good to know I can machine the auger anyway, I'll keep thinking about designing the rest of it until I get distracted by a new idea, I'll have moved on by tomorrow knowing me.
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Looks like the thing used to artificially inseminate sows. The male organ when erect, is corkscrewed, and for insemination you need to remember the handedness of it, quick nemonic, A I stands for anti-;clockwise In not artificial insemination 
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Does the boar do a twirl when it mounts?Looks like the thing used to artificially inseminate sows. The male organ when erect, is corkscrewed, and for insemination you need to remember the handedness of it, quick nemonic, A I stands for anti-;clockwise In not artificial insemination
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Here is a tale of Dirty Dick,
the only man with a corkscrew ****
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I've been working on this over the last few days.
It's for compressing motorcycle shocks to remove the spring without changing the preload setting. There are a few bits that haven't come out as well as I would like so I may re-do them in the future, however I had to do it quickly to get my bike back on the road.
Would have been a lot easier with a milling machine.
It's for compressing motorcycle shocks to remove the spring without changing the preload setting. There are a few bits that haven't come out as well as I would like so I may re-do them in the future, however I had to do it quickly to get my bike back on the road.
Would have been a lot easier with a milling machine.
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What's the project?
I wouldn't stand in front of that even if you paid me lol would end up with a spring flying across the room.
