Stuff you have made today

[Misterg]

A tapered reamer for fitting bridge pins to an acoustic guitar. I'd actually bought one before I found out that not all bridge pins have the same taper. I have 5° pins and a 7° reamer . Turns out that 5° reamers are really expensive.

So: I turned some silver steel to a 5° taper with a short, 4mm diameter pilot on the end (using a live centre to support the tail end).

I then put a 2mm packer under my little toolpost spindle and put a 4mm end mill in it. With the compound still set to the taper angle, I cut a couple of 1mm deep flutes the full length of it:





I had to move the centre out of the way for this, but it still cut OK. Indexed it around a few more times and took some shallow cuts to try and create some relief and ended up with a two fluted cutter of sorts:



Not sure that it was really necessary as it would only be used on dead trees, but hardened and tempered it back to a dark straw:



Cleaned it up, stoned the edges and glued it into a file handle. Pleased that it seems to work OK in a test block:



The only quirk is that it's left handed!

 

[Kram]

Interesting toolpost spindle. I need to make one, some day..

Also tried some milling

Rest of it wont be easy to hold in QCTP so will be by hand.

 

[Bki26]

are you going to insulate or add some kind of heat shields for the pump motors / oil tank?

Hopefully enough of an air gap between the combustion chamber and everything else, it's a truck air brake tank so pretty thick and engine wouldn't be running for more than a couple of minutes so should be fine. Not as compact as one of the other fellow nutters who built it into a bike.

 

[knighty]

Hopefully enough of an air gap between the combustion chamber and everything else, it's a truck air brake tank so pretty thick and engine wouldn't be running for more than a couple of minutes so should be fine. Not as compact as one of the other fellow nutters who built it into a bike.

I was thinking that's the combustion chamber it'll be red hot... but thinking again the air comes down the sides and back up the middle where it burns... so outside edge should stay cool (er)

 

[selectedgrub]

The rivets are decorative being plug welded from the rear.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[Memmeddu]

Made my first YouTube video with success, starting to become confident to speak English and little better at editing (made various attempts)
Unfortunately the 40 minutes video reduced to 10 minutes which took almost 10 hours of work (considering half of the time trying to speak , moving the camera etc)
Has been lost prior uploading, because the editing app needs the various unedited clips.
I've deleted them unfortunately, and I've lost the entire work done .
Anyway not a completely lost since it was needed to learn and become better at it .
It's been a sad delusion TBH because I was hyped to upload it and get started.
I'm little sad about.

 

[Bki26]

I was thinking that's the combustion chamber it'll be red hot... but thinking again the air comes down the sides and back up the middle where it burns... so outside edge should stay cool (er)

It's got a inner flame tube so combustion is contained within that the airflow into the main chamber forces it's way through the holes resulting in most of the heat going towards the end into the turbo housing and not the combustion chamber body hopefully but long runs might get toasty

 

[Mick Annick]

Made my first YouTube video with success, starting to become confident to speak English and little better at editing (made various attempts)
Unfortunately the 40 minutes video reduced to 10 minutes which took almost 10 hours of work (considering half of the time trying to speak , moving the camera etc)
Has been lost prior uploading, because the editing app needs the various unedited clips.
I've deleted them unfortunately, and I've lost the entire work done .
Anyway not a completely lost since it was needed to learn and become better at it .
It's been a sad delusion TBH because I was hyped to upload it and get started.
I'm little sad about.

Keep at it, you’ll get there.

 

[Blobber]

Made my first YouTube video with success, starting to become confident to speak English and little better at editing (made various attempts)
Unfortunately the 40 minutes video reduced to 10 minutes which took almost 10 hours of work (considering half of the time trying to speak , moving the camera etc)
Has been lost prior uploading, because the editing app needs the various unedited clips.
I've deleted them unfortunately, and I've lost the entire work done .
Anyway not a completely lost since it was needed to learn and become better at it .
It's been a sad delusion TBH because I was hyped to upload it and get started.
I'm little sad about.

Dont be sad, keep at it and you will learn, make sure you post up some links when you have a completed youtube video

 

[Memmeddu]

Dont be sad, keep at it and you will learn, make sure you post up some links when you have a completed youtube video

It'll be done.
I'm just dealing with the delusion...
I'm always been hard with myself, I tend to underestimate the value of the things I do ...
So if I considered the lost video enough good of a start,it wasn't surely great but not so bad of a start either.
That's what I'm sorry for.
It was a power tool repair, with an hybrid sort of approach little bit storytelling about what I was doing, and parts where I wasn't saying anything.
Which seems to work judging from other channels where they don't say anything just fast forward videos .
But for the kind of contents I'm willing to brought in the future I think it's better to say something in the videos , also for a matter of getting used to speaking and storytelling.
Which trust me it's really hard for me because I'm both shy and not English mother language .
But I got it again still an hudge room for improvement but it would have been a great start but most importantly a satisfaction and a reward for the job done.
Anyways there's another repair in program but not sure if I can accomplish that .
Repairing power tools is always like a closed box kinda of a deal.
You have to stay into a defined budget, and might happen to have to leave it because beyond repair do to costs .
There are 3 sure repairs but those have not the priority and being my own tools and not belonging from customers I can't push them because the budget has to be used on something else with an higher priority.
Like in this case
2 homemade tools for now
4 restorations
2 refreshes
But again not the priority at the moment

12 videos ideas

 

[Puglet1]

Don’t beat yourself up! Simply by sharing this with us is more than others would do.
It tells me that you are an honest , skilful , and conscientious person.
It’s a shame that you have lost the hard work that you’ve put into the video but we all know that you’ll be back with your next attempt soon.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

 

[Kram]

A bit thin at 4mm where I need to thread it, could helicoil or shrink fit a thicker bit of round in there.

Will try to anodise it. I should do a test first as havent used the kit/dyes in over a year.

 

[m_c]

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A bit thin at 4mm where I need to thread it, could helicoil or shrink fit a thicker bit of round in there.

Will try to anodise it. I should do a test first as havent used the kit/dyes in over a year.

Have you just replaced the chain catcher with a roller?

 

[Kram]

That is the plan, quite a few saws come standard with roller catchers. Seemed an interesting/simple small part to try milling.

 

[daedalusminos]

That is the plan, quite a few saws come standard with roller catchers. Seemed an interesting/simple small part to try milling.

Have you *made* that flanged nut?

 

[m_c]

That is the plan, quite a few saws come standard with roller catchers. Seemed an interesting/simple small part to try milling.

I thought the whole point of a chain catcher was to catch the chain and stop it dead, so if it does come off and whip around, it's at least not being driven?
Swapping to a roller would appear to defeat the point of the catcher.

 

[Kram]

I believe rollers are still effective, and if not Echo and Husquvana probably would not sell saws with them.

Have you *made* that flanged nut?

Yes, it has a groove so it can be retained in the cover by a bit of wire. Sods law I dont have any suitable 1.2mm stuff and 1.5-1.6mm wire wont fit.

 

[Memmeddu]

Managed to move my car to park it away from it was .
On Monday the building it was parked right outside will be demolished .
So checklist to start it has been.
Put the key in
turn on the electrical
Wait until the fuel pump shuts off
Remove the power supply to the pump
Start the engine
Wait till it idles
Press the throttle till it gains rpm
Connect the power to the pump.
Keep revving up not below 1500 rpm to keep the engine run.
Put in first gear
Drive the car at constant 2000 rpm or more to keep the engine running.
Brake using the handbrake since you still have to keep your foot on the throttle.
Parking manoeuvre following the instructions up above.
It's been challenging since I've had to restart the car 4 times during the 600 meters trip driving around the block to park it in front of home.

ECU is the main suspect since I've replaced everything and injectors won't work at higher rpms either as lower .
150 euros for a replacement but not its time yet .
Other stuff going on .

 

[Bullet2012]