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Paulbarrett
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Nothing major interesting but got some time to fire up the lathes and turn up some M9 bolts for an Opel engine manifold.
Windy Miller
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What sort of Mill Drill do you have Graham? Keep us posted on this project - it may be an idea I can steal off you!
Seadog
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It's a Rong Fu RF25. This one's a Clarke's, but Axminster and other companies all sell the same stuff.
It's going to have major surgery. I just need to attack it with the angle grinder and then there'll be no going back.
Once I progress a bit more I'll try to get round to posting it as a project. I do need to find someone with a decently sized mill so that I can achieve my aims.
It's going to have major surgery. I just need to attack it with the angle grinder and then there'll be no going back.
Once I progress a bit more I'll try to get round to posting it as a project. I do need to find someone with a decently sized mill so that I can achieve my aims.
Onoff
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More "made a start" than made. Been running 50x50 trunking round a double garage packed to gunwales with tat. Every shelf on every wall full to the ceiling. The plan was to leave a nom 13mm gap between top of trunking and underside of roof joists. This so I could slip plasterboard in there later. Didn't quite work out like that, I'd have had to have cut Celcon columns down. In some places I've just enough clearance to get the trunking lid on. If it comes to it later I can pull the cables out and redrill the trunking but I'd clear the garage first. At least I'll have tidied a length of SWA and two 20mm flexible conduits that have been draped across the garage for the last 3 years and should be able to get my gate powered up:
Windy Miller
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I did wonder if it was some sort or Rong Fu clone - the hand wheels look very similar to my RF35 clone.
When I get it out of storage and set up again (we’ve moved house recently), you’d be welcome to pop round and use it if it’s big enough. And if you can put up with my severely butchered table of course!
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That's exactly what I need to do!
One day.
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Been working on some mini tanks this week...
Some fittings welded from one side only, penetrating through so it's a hygenic weld, but on some that wasn't an option, so welding the back side of the inlet bends and the level sensor of them by looking in a mirror
Been over to the tungsten grinder a little more often than usual
Some fittings welded from one side only, penetrating through so it's a hygenic weld, but on some that wasn't an option, so welding the back side of the inlet bends and the level sensor of them by looking in a mirror
Been over to the tungsten grinder a little more often than usual
mtt.tr
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That looks like an artBeen working on some mini tanks this week...
Some fittings welded from one side only, penetrating through so it's a hygenic weld, but on some that wasn't an option, so welding the back side of the inlet bends and the level sensor of them by looking in a mirror
Been over to the tungsten grinder a little more often than usual
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Hood
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Testing out the trace function on the laser for making a gasket.
The first thing I could find here was a fan cover so decided to try it and see.
Placed it on the laser bed
Traced it as best I could
Slight bit of editing to get rid of some extras, still need to investigate all the ways to edit as it is totally different from my normal CAD.
Place a bit of paper on the bed and rotate and place the image.
Press start and cut the image.
Pretend gasket cut.
On top of the cover, not perfect but good enough and quicker/easier/better than cutting by hand..
The first thing I could find here was a fan cover so decided to try it and see.
Placed it on the laser bed
Traced it as best I could
Slight bit of editing to get rid of some extras, still need to investigate all the ways to edit as it is totally different from my normal CAD.
Place a bit of paper on the bed and rotate and place the image.
Press start and cut the image.
Pretend gasket cut.
On top of the cover, not perfect but good enough and quicker/easier/better than cutting by hand..
Hood
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Got an order for 10x lobster gauges with the boats name/number. Camera placement makes life easy as I can type and then duplicate 10x and just place on each gauge. I have them aligned neatly but in reality I could have just thrown them in any orientation on the table and just aligned the text to suit.
And 8-9 mins later all are done.
And 8-9 mins later all are done.
mtt.tr
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Interesting cnc.Self explanatory really, a thinking seat...
I liked this design as it has really very little waste, and I’m a cheapskate with the price of plywood what it is.
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LowRider CNC V3 - V1 Engineering Documentation
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A little more progress on my work table. Feet are on, fixing tabs for the top fitted, plus a support down the middle. The middle support will also do double duty as a place to attach tabs for attachment of drawer sliders. I need to buy sliders first to find out the hole spacing. I've decided on plywood for the top. Two stacked sheets of 18mm. The wife has pointed out that this gives me four top surfaces to swap over as they get damaged.
This is where it is as of right now. I've ground the top welds down purely to give a flat surface. The rest are all left to tell a story in future as they don't interfere with anything. It's lovely and rock solid with the adjustable feet.
Some build pics as I went along.
Set up for welding. Cheap Lidl clamps so not worried about them getting zapped accidentally. Zinc ground off the outside of the nut. Can't do anything about the zinc on the threads.
Welded down two sides. M16 by 2mm tap run down to remove any tightness from warping or the zinc falling off. Fortunately, I'm not short of this size tap.
M16 thread is overkill but they were the same price as M12 and all the weight and shock loads go through very few threads, so I went big. I think the foot diameter increased too which is a good thing to spread the load.
Couple of welds. Needed to run a bit faster on this joint than the others. It caught me out a little at first.
Spotted this evidence of a poor return connection from last week. It had been arcing out. Thought it was interesting and worth a mention. I had mistakenly been rotating the brass thread a lot which pulled the brass screw away from the material so it had arced around the chromed cover edges rather than through the brass in the middle. Lesson learned.
Middle support welded in. My fillets are much better than my butt welds. The light reflects off the sides and I can see the weld better on the fillet. They seem to dissipate the heat better too and give me more time on the weld.
Continued....
This is where it is as of right now. I've ground the top welds down purely to give a flat surface. The rest are all left to tell a story in future as they don't interfere with anything. It's lovely and rock solid with the adjustable feet.
Some build pics as I went along.
Set up for welding. Cheap Lidl clamps so not worried about them getting zapped accidentally. Zinc ground off the outside of the nut. Can't do anything about the zinc on the threads.
Welded down two sides. M16 by 2mm tap run down to remove any tightness from warping or the zinc falling off. Fortunately, I'm not short of this size tap.
M16 thread is overkill but they were the same price as M12 and all the weight and shock loads go through very few threads, so I went big. I think the foot diameter increased too which is a good thing to spread the load.
Couple of welds. Needed to run a bit faster on this joint than the others. It caught me out a little at first.
Spotted this evidence of a poor return connection from last week. It had been arcing out. Thought it was interesting and worth a mention. I had mistakenly been rotating the brass thread a lot which pulled the brass screw away from the material so it had arced around the chromed cover edges rather than through the brass in the middle. Lesson learned.
Middle support welded in. My fillets are much better than my butt welds. The light reflects off the sides and I can see the weld better on the fillet. They seem to dissipate the heat better too and give me more time on the weld.
Continued....
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Tabs cut on the bandsaw. Depth stop employed for the tiny production run of eight squares. This speeded up proceedings as only one initial measurement had to be made.
Pilot holes drilled using my tidied up Tauco drill. They will get drilled out again once I know the screw size needed.
Centre punch for the drill was simply eyeballed. I didn't measure for the centre. No need as it doesn't really matter where the screw goes.
Chopped off the corner to clear the weld.
Eight tabs welded in to hold the top with screws. They were placed below the top surface as I didn't want to have to grind the welds and compromise the strength. I'll use spacers to fill the gap so the screws don't pull out when being tightened. I roughly rounded off the protruding corners using a flap disc.
Pilot holes drilled using my tidied up Tauco drill. They will get drilled out again once I know the screw size needed.
Centre punch for the drill was simply eyeballed. I didn't measure for the centre. No need as it doesn't really matter where the screw goes.
Chopped off the corner to clear the weld.
Eight tabs welded in to hold the top with screws. They were placed below the top surface as I didn't want to have to grind the welds and compromise the strength. I'll use spacers to fill the gap so the screws don't pull out when being tightened. I roughly rounded off the protruding corners using a flap disc.
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Sergei Slovenija
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I just throw the nuts into hydrochloric acid and then rinse.
