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Put them back in! Far far superior to ally jaws
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They need re annealing and re shaping or something they are a bit of a mess
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Get yer files out then
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they are beyond filesGet yer files out then
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Time to fire up the milling machine.
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Bit of time and help has allowed some MIS Members to "fly solo."
I did nothing, apart from provide the space and the tools.
More experience on painting and finishing. But it is a start.
2 speed breast drill, just missing a side handle. I need to make or rummage in my spares. The chuck worked, but the jaws did not move freely.
I was mean, I did not allow internet search on stripping this drill down. It was "fun" to watch 3 people work it out. The surprize was the chuck spindle is sealed bearing. Not ball bearings.
Complete, painted with Smooth Hamerite, so it will be rusty by next week.
Egg Beater drill.
This one had a strange handle fixing.
Close up.
You unscrew the knurled fixing close to the gear wheel and the top handle twist off. But it doesn't fit anywhere else on the drill.
I did nothing, apart from provide the space and the tools.
More experience on painting and finishing. But it is a start.
2 speed breast drill, just missing a side handle. I need to make or rummage in my spares. The chuck worked, but the jaws did not move freely.
I was mean, I did not allow internet search on stripping this drill down. It was "fun" to watch 3 people work it out. The surprize was the chuck spindle is sealed bearing. Not ball bearings.
Complete, painted with Smooth Hamerite, so it will be rusty by next week.
Egg Beater drill.
This one had a strange handle fixing.
Close up.
You unscrew the knurled fixing close to the gear wheel and the top handle twist off. But it doesn't fit anywhere else on the drill.
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Today I lit up the flower wall I installed a few weeks back
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Very nice, can we see a couple of pictures of the radius turning attachment please.
Does the same attachment turns both concave and convex profiles?
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123hotchef
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any pics any going begging for some new jaws the copper ones were so much betterJust bought some copper stock on the back of seeing that
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But of fun last night and tonight.
A few weeks ago I got myself a charcoal brass flat iron.
It has suffered the ravages of time and has age related repairs. The worse was a crack from lid to the vent.
Plus a few holes I thought was from the acid effect from coke being used.
In fact it has had a series of repairs. The top section is an add on/repair. You can see the join line. The crack from lid to vent was brazed, just under the heat defector you can see the lumpy blobs of brass.
Research on the web and a trip to a town library I found out in the past the brass irons would be repaired with copper and lead solder patches. Iron ones would of bean brazed.
What was good then, should be good now.
The vent holes have bean done, now to attempt the crack.
Torches like this could not get enough heat in. @Chillitt Yes it is.
But using other items I managed to get a decent, age looking repair.
I left the old wire in place and gave the body a clean up. You can see on the vent how the hole is distorted with the original repair left it.
The heat defector was cleaned and sealed with wax and oil. The handle was polished and cleaned on the lathe.
Oh what did I use to get enough heat into the iron to allow me to repair it?
A few weeks ago I got myself a charcoal brass flat iron.
It has suffered the ravages of time and has age related repairs. The worse was a crack from lid to the vent.
Plus a few holes I thought was from the acid effect from coke being used.
In fact it has had a series of repairs. The top section is an add on/repair. You can see the join line. The crack from lid to vent was brazed, just under the heat defector you can see the lumpy blobs of brass.
Research on the web and a trip to a town library I found out in the past the brass irons would be repaired with copper and lead solder patches. Iron ones would of bean brazed.
What was good then, should be good now.
The vent holes have bean done, now to attempt the crack.
Torches like this could not get enough heat in. @Chillitt Yes it is.
But using other items I managed to get a decent, age looking repair.
I left the old wire in place and gave the body a clean up. You can see on the vent how the hole is distorted with the original repair left it.
The heat defector was cleaned and sealed with wax and oil. The handle was polished and cleaned on the lathe.
Oh what did I use to get enough heat into the iron to allow me to repair it?
I just held off pushing the button on 1 x meter x 1" x 1" for £60ish as the boy said he might get it cheaper at work, that length would get me 3 sets 6" of standard size. But thinking now that I would only want 2 sets max of standard size, one pair with vertical V and a flat pair (either for record or parkinson 6")
What would be useful would be some chunkier copper stock for a horizontal V which I could adapt a relatively rubbish Stanley 5" vice to take
The boy is notoriously flaky which is annoying as they have top end CNC everything, and he is off for 2 weeks so said I would need to wait, reminded that he needs to find somewhere to live so he will go back in work next week and ask about buying stock cheaper
Apart from bandsawing length of 1" up the middle would look to do the rest myself with my comedy tools, the boy could probably turn all of it out looking spectacular but where's the fun in that!
And it would never get done...
Will update, comments appreciated on the horizontal V idea.
