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Migmac
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Using up an ‘air receiver’ plus some spare material and castors to make something useful that will create SPACE in my welding area.
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You’ll have to tell me what it is. Best I can come up with is a portable air supply
Munkul
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What is it?Using up an ‘air receiver’ plus some spare material and castors to make something useful that will create SPACE in my welding area.
Munkul
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I need to re-tool it now. Plain tooling doesn't really work for folding boxes, and I want a bit more flexibility. One of those sides was cut out for relief, and the other side was folded in the bench vice
To get the segmented tooling I want, it'll be £1500 plus my toolholders need machining or replaced as well, owch. Not exactly cost effective for the use it gets.
arther dailey
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secondary air tank to boost air capacity ? only geussing mind
Wallace
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Nothing air related, the cylinders days are numbered and relegated to dead weight which is exactly what it will be, filled with all the scrap I can find and topped up with a bit of antifreeze to add more weight. That will hopefully keep the centre of gravity low enough to counteract the weight of my grinders, cables and Tig welding rods hanging off like a hat stand. No fixed plans or drawings other than staying within a 400 x 400mm area so it can be tucked out of the way when not being used, it's just evolving as I go.
arther dailey
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pictures when finished , as I havent a clue what you just said (nothing unusual there eh)
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Oh Rowlocks.
Cast top for the bird bath, I think it is no longer water tight.
The crack was old, very little was holding it.
3 metal pins across the crack. But not glued or fixed yet.
The crack was opened up, to give a decent bead for the glue stage.
The clamps, here are holding the 2 halves in line, so I can open the crack and clean up the stone.
Pitch pine strips, again across the crack. But out of line of the steel 6mm bars.
1 side is fixed with the screws going vertical. The other side the holes and fixings were drilled at a 10Deg angle.
So when you screw them up, it pulls the joint even tighter.
Glued up.
The metal pins.
2 pack glue.
The wood parts.
Can't believe it is not nails.
The crack.
2 pack stone resin glue.
A word to the wise, it will get hot.
The clamps are not holding it compressed.
But to make it easier to move round to glue.
The 4 screws, at the angle pulled the too halves up very tight.
Sealed with exterior grade stone sealer.
Back in place. Ready for water.
Total cost?
£0:00p
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slim_boy_fat
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Feeling a bit below par today
, but decided I'd better crack on with this little job. I turned a 2/3 full width spacer while I was at it, it was all going SO well until I snapped the point off the parting-off tool while making the locating pins - and no, I don't have another of the same style. 
May have to grind one from tool steel as it'll take too long to come from Banggood. 
Oh, well, that's for another day.....
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I rolled these today after searching the South of England for a Y size bottle of Argon. If I had Argon I could make a blade for the bandsaw and cut them from a length of exhaust pipe. I have no exhaust pipe so I rolled them just for the hell of it.
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Shed is also looking tidier than it has in years (I just didn't take a photo of it yesterday):
Quite chuffed with the result of a thorough tidy. Shame it'll only last until I next turn the milling machine on and send swarf all over the garage!
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Back to work after 2 months of lockdown
A new customer hired me for job yesterday evening ,this morning I went there , dismantled an industrial mixer (very big KitchenAid kind of a thing)
Discovered the fault in the transformer which had a burnt primary (it has 3 windings 2 primary and 1 secondary )
Replaced the board mounted transformer with a new one after had to travel to another city to buy it
4 hours in total counting the travel
I've charged only for the work (about 2 hours maybe 2 and a half)
Anyway 50 euros , easy repair ,the customer is happy I'm back working again ,I think that is ok
Ps the customer paid the transformer separately
A new customer hired me for job yesterday evening ,this morning I went there , dismantled an industrial mixer (very big KitchenAid kind of a thing)
Discovered the fault in the transformer which had a burnt primary (it has 3 windings 2 primary and 1 secondary )
Replaced the board mounted transformer with a new one after had to travel to another city to buy it
4 hours in total counting the travel
I've charged only for the work (about 2 hours maybe 2 and a half)
Anyway 50 euros , easy repair ,the customer is happy I'm back working again ,I think that is ok
Ps the customer paid the transformer separately
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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It is water tight.
I even had a "local" taking advantage of it/
Oh yes.
I also knocked up a lower steady for the old lathe.
Also, converted big bits of timber into:
Saw dust.
Smaller bots of timber.
wyn
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Bodged a ball joint for a compact tractor.
End of a socket head cap cap screw that i turned down to fit in the ball joint.
The ball joint didn't want to be drilled any bigger to get a step for the screw head.
The bolt welded in.
The nut was welded on to hold it in the lathe to drill out the centre
Back together with the cap welded back on and a grease nipple fitted
End of a socket head cap cap screw that i turned down to fit in the ball joint.
The ball joint didn't want to be drilled any bigger to get a step for the screw head.
The bolt welded in.
The nut was welded on to hold it in the lathe to drill out the centre
Back together with the cap welded back on and a grease nipple fitted
Hood
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Cut another sheet of 1.5mm 316 for the chute part of the Mackerel stripper boxes I am making.
Got one welded up ready to attach once I get the stripper box finished.
Just before I headed home I decided to turn/thread some 50mm dia Alu.
It is for this 1 1/4" BSP valve.
Bored a hole in the new plasma table and welded it in.
Got one welded up ready to attach once I get the stripper box finished.
Just before I headed home I decided to turn/thread some 50mm dia Alu.
It is for this 1 1/4" BSP valve.
Bored a hole in the new plasma table and welded it in.
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Used up a few more left over timbers after giving them a sand with the orbital to create more shelving on the left hand side of the last lot i did for my car books.
