Stuff you have made today

[Memmeddu]

Fingers crossed mate. Sounds like you've shown more spirit than 90% of people.

Hopefully they understood that .
First thing once I'll get paid for other jobs done I'll buy the Italian equivalent of the machinery hand book.
800+ pages where it's explained how use an engine lathe (just the lathe)
Then another book about milling machines
Other 600+ pages .

 

[Cobbler]

1400 pages, that’s heavy bedtime reading! You must be keen.

 

[Agroshield]

...I'll buy the Italian equivalent of the machinery hand book.

https://www.vtc1.org/cms/lib/PA03000913/Centricity/Domain/21/Machinerys%20Handbook%2029th%20Edition.pdf

but it is not strong on basic use of the tools. A very good one, if you can find in your language is Moltrecht's 'Machine Shop Practice' (2 volumes).

 

[Barking Mat]

Stuff I've made today....

A Cummings Onan marine diesel generator shed some weight in covers, and spilt canal water everywhere.

Bloody thing wasn't cooling itself as it should, I'm very familiar with the four pot Kubota, but the marinisation side of it I'm not familiar with. So it got taken apart, pipes traced, and five hours later I'm still none the wiser.

Mud which has solidified in the heat exchanger is my bet, but I've never seen such a small heat exchanger before, and it seems the core doesn't come out?

Something is blocked somewhere.

PITA to work on.

Anyone any experience of these?

That's the blurry heat exchanger bottom right, grrr.

 

[James1979]

I was trying to cure one that was cutting out today as it happens. Do you have the manual? I am not sure how much help it will be as I was looking for the blink codes but I can ask the guy if he can send me relevant bits, assuming there are any if you want?

Yours is a slightly different layout from todays. it had a fuel pump driven water pump which was on the left of the injector pump as you look at it from the side you've photographed. cant make it out. Think its the same other then that though

Edit, your lift pump is in a slightly less stupid place. Is that a new one? This one has about 12k hours

 

[Memmeddu]

https://www.vtc1.org/cms/lib/PA03000913/Centricity/Domain/21/Machinerys%20Handbook%2029th%20Edition.pdf

but it is not strong on basic use of the tools. A very good one, if you can find in your language is Moltrecht's 'Machine Shop Practice' (2 volumes).

Tomorrow I'll go to make a paper copy

 

[Woody.v8]

Almost finished refurbing my crane hook with new thrust washer collets made a new nut and a handle/locking pin made for the main pin and a new nipple for luck, still waiting on safety latch for the hook then shes ready for a lick of paint .
Also fabbed some plates for the led beacon bar, I may have got carried away

 

[Memmeddu]

Tomorrow I'll go to make a paper copy

3900+ pages
There's not something more apprentice friendly?

 

[Barking Mat]

I was trying to cure one that was cutting out today as it happens. Do you have the manual? I am not sure how much help it will be as I was looking for the blink codes but I can ask the guy if he can send me relevant bits, assuming there are any if you want?

Yours is a slightly different layout from todays. it had a fuel pump driven water pump which was on the left of the injector pump as you look at it from the side you've photographed. cant make it out. Think its the same other then that though

Edit, your lift pump is in a slightly less stupid place. Is that a new one? This one has about 12k hours

It's two years old , less than 900 hours, electric fuel pump, but the marinisation system is like none I've seen before. The coolant to raw water is the size of an oil cooler, looks like the matrix (?) can't be removed, semi traditional exhaust manifold with an expansion tank sat on top, and uuhhh, installed by Linnssen so it's not very accessible and some intriguing (stupid) installation features.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Just been playing with a new toy. Got 'Electra' a couple of weeks ago for a job to remove a broken tap in s/s with a blind hole and she performed as was described on the box. So, one of my customers asked if I could drill some torx bits as the owner ordered them from China with no center hole . They have tried drilling them with an Artu bit which heats the tip and then softens it making it useless. I came to the rescue and said that I have just the thing. An EDM will drill the hole for you without annealing the material, so 'Electra' was sent to work.

I was given a few to try 85, I though that was more than a few, was subsequently told they have about 1000. May even get my money back on this job

 

[James1979]

Just been playing with a new toy. Got 'Electra' a couple of weeks ago for a job to remove a broken tap in s/s with a blind hole and she performed as was described on the box. So, one of my customers asked if I could drill some torx bits as the owner ordered them from China with no center hole . They have tried drilling them with an Artu bit which heats the tip and then softens it making it useless. I came to the rescue and said that I have just the thing. An EDM will drill the hole for you without annealing the material, so 'Electra' was sent to work.

I was given a few to try 85, I though that was more than a few, was subsequently told they have about 1000. May even get my money back on this job

Which brand is that?

 

[Brad93]

Super useful tool. I’d like one but most of the ones available seem to be chinese

 

[Beeezer]

Made this jig so I could plane down this end grain cutting board I am making.

Worked pretty well despite the small router bit I was using (19mm or 3/4"), need to get a proper bit for planing. And I'd have less work sanding that pattern out.

Nice little planer thicknesser.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

@James1979 @Brad93 Yep Chinese the yellow one the 4000 (the big one). Today I find out that someone here in Au is supposed to be making them , and that after several weeks of looking, so sad too bad!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

was subsequently told they have about 1000. May even get my money back on this job

Wouldn't it have been cheaper for them just to re-order the right things?

 

[Justme]

Yesterday I turned this nice neat stacked pile



Into this



and this




Via this




And a heck lot of this

 

[Munkul]

An adjustable stop for the saw. It was missing by the time I bought the saw... Finally got sick of measuring for cleats etc!

 

[Kram]

Enlarged my GF3 mini gun 1.2mm nozzle to 1.55mm. They dont make bigger nozzles, you'd normally have to use thinners or buy a full size gun. I'll be attempting this gun for primer, it seems 1.8mm is recommended but I'll test before going bigger. The OD is 2.6mm. Might not work but I dont see why it cant.

Lathe headstock stripped paint off. Suprised they face milled the casting to be square, tho its rough. Doesnt look too bad under the thick green paint.

 

[brewdexta]

I had one beer font in the brewery tap.

I built this to replace it

I'm just wiring up the light to the downlighter/shelf above it.

Although all the taps are from ex- Worthington cream flow pumps, there are three different version, the two on the left are similar, the two in the right are both different, but I don't think I will notice or care after a few I may change the handles at some point, if I can be bothered,

The pump on the left is now serving a Citra IPA. I take the cream flow nozzle off and use a standard beer sparkler, works fine. The other three taps will come on stream soon. There are magnets in the wood behind the taps to hold the pump clips.

I've just brewed a standard bitter, I used the hop rocket for the first time. You stuff it full of hops and pump hot wort through it then cool the wort through a plate heat exchanger on its way to the fermenter. The idea is that it take all the aromatic oils out of the hops which are normally boiled off giving a bit more bitterness but a lot more aroma. We shall see

Cheers
Andy

 

[Hood]

Amongst other things I made this today.

It does this

And also this

Ran out of time to make the other parts, have them designed but was hoping to have a weekend off, doesn't look like it now

Pic of it in fusion.