The_Yellow_Ardvark
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pressbrake1
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Made on my Holbrook with a lead screw accuracy of .0002 per foot
brewdexta
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It's due a good clean, I usually use a soft brush on rods as you describe, it doesn't seem to need it doing often but the heat exchanger needs at least an annual clean, that gets blown out with compressed air.
Seadog
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Today I made a sawbench. Cheapo Parkside circular saw that I was given and my very old B&D Workmate.
The aim being to turn some plywood scrap, that I been hanging on to for 6 years, and also some old skirting, into battens for my UFH project.
retty eff
Pretty effective it was too. I must have around 250' which should be just about right.
The aim being to turn some plywood scrap, that I been hanging on to for 6 years, and also some old skirting, into battens for my UFH project.
retty eff
Pretty effective it was too. I must have around 250' which should be just about right.
Seadog
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Given my new-found love of compressors, two of which you can see in the above post, I bought a cheap Silverline air brad nailer. It needs a lubricator so I popped out to Machne Mart and bought one.
The Phillips screw seemed like a bit of a fiddle, since you need regular lubrication.
Hunting around I found this...
It's from a DEC RK05/RK06 Winchester disc drive. I've quite a few I saved back in 90s when we used to scrap them as too expensive to get repaired. Wish I'd kept all of the alloy castings too
Anyway, with a bit of lathery I ended up with this, well, two actually, the other being for my LIDL mini-air grinder.
I hadn't realised how awful the finish is until looking at this picture, but it was partucularly tough and I didn't have any SS carbide inserts. Anyway, it does the job, and that's what matters. It's now a doddle to add oil
The Phillips screw seemed like a bit of a fiddle, since you need regular lubrication.
Hunting around I found this...
It's from a DEC RK05/RK06 Winchester disc drive. I've quite a few I saved back in 90s when we used to scrap them as too expensive to get repaired. Wish I'd kept all of the alloy castings too
Anyway, with a bit of lathery I ended up with this, well, two actually, the other being for my LIDL mini-air grinder.
I hadn't realised how awful the finish is until looking at this picture, but it was partucularly tough and I didn't have any SS carbide inserts. Anyway, it does the job, and that's what matters. It's now a doddle to add oil
DAPPH
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FIL in Canada had an electro static cleaning element block in a steel sealed cabinet 18 inches high x 12 x 12 inches for their heat exchanger system .
He took it out on the first of every month washed it in the sink in warm soapy water , rinsed it in clean warm , dried in the sun or by the heating plant and put it back the next day . No dust in the house at all but the return air ducts attracted the dust in the air electrostatically to the ductings internal side , so from down in the cellar area once every October they had all the pipes cleaned & sucked through with the contractor using their own very strong vacuum machine . I was amazed at the amount of dust that came out of the system ..almost a 4 gallon bucket full
Onoff
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A furry"pig" pulled through the ducts is often used. First blow/ suck a draw cord through.
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Nice work, looks like a really smooth thread, this is a job I have to tackle, lack of a follow rest and pure wimpy cowardice prevent me attempting it yet!
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DAPPH
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DAPPH
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Yes , You saying that I recall they sucked a POMPOM (woolly ball slightly smaller than the pipe work ) tied to the draw cord to pull " the PIG " in through the room exhaust pipes .
Seadog
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Snap , I have yet to turn a thread to a shoulder … whimp that I am .
Think laterally. Cut away from the shoulder. You obviously need to position the tool on a rear toolpost and upside down for a right hand thread. You can rattle out threads quickly with this method.
DAPPH
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Thankyou for posting that Seadog , I'll have to check that there is enough travel for me to cut from the back of the lathe using my QCTP , I seem to think there is very little extra travel once the middle TP is past the center line .
Like the idea of doing it from the front but on mine running it backwards would like as not see the chuck unscrew
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Today, I made a little progress on the weather vane - welds still to be tidied and decision to be taken re paint/lacquer etc. Heavy drizzle stopped play.........
