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My Old Landy
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I like those, I have only made a couple of acrylic pens myself. I am looking forward to getting my lathe back from storage and setting the woodshop back up
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Ran out of the frame profiles Friday. 6 3m lengths short. So much for the designer. Should be done mid week.
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That is flipping neat
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Took a good amount of effort to get the edges
The metal stays are an after thought as I under estimated how floppy the plastic decking is.
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Made last week but fitted today a gate to keep the baddies out.
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More 3D printing. This is the Mk6 version. Citroen DS rear brake shoes have to be centred using a special tool. The peg fits in the hub centre, the middle hole over a wheel stud, the sliding knife edge touches the brake shoe. Keep adjusting the position of the shoes until the knife edge touches all the way round. I must be getting better at this DSM malarkey, I put my initials on it.
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One of these bending things (whose name completely escapes me) which I've been meaning to knock up for years but have not until now.
Whilst doing it I also upgraded the breaker in my garage CU to a 16A type C, as welding it on full whack tripped the old type B.
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Whilst doing it I also upgraded the breaker in my garage CU to a 16A type C, as welding it on full whack tripped the old type B.
My guess would be shaper bit mounted on the cross slide. 0.2mm would be easily achievable without putting too much stress into the headstock bearings.
And it would be quicker than milling them. Slot will be done in under a second. A fine slot like that would probably take a few seconds to mill with a V/chamfer cutter.
Wouldn't work on that kind of serration.
Although polygonal could do the straight groove on one side of the circle, it would obliterate it as the cutting edge passed back out the circle the circle at a different point.
You could achieve a similar pattern by knurling, but you'd struggle to get it consistent.
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Oh well no idea then.Nope
It was CNC but not a lathe, not a mill and not EDM.
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My nan is 96 and has problems getting up from her chair, shes had one of these stander things but it wont work with her chair, it doesnt have a liftable cusion and the handles are far too high and too far forward.
So first change is fit the down tubes directly on the U frame. Plan handles to be bolt on so they can rotate to best position.
I got the feet onto welding bench.
Had 5 or 6 heavy showers and keep having to shift everything back indoors
First proper test of the wp20 watercooled torch. It works! Stayed nice cool at 100A and I wasnt feeling any heat. the cable is a bit short, and the tactile button I used is rubbish needs replacing.
Strange thing when I swapped to the wp17 at 60A, the back of my glove/hand/fingers were getting burnt and Im still not too sure how, or why it didnt with the wp20.
So first change is fit the down tubes directly on the U frame. Plan handles to be bolt on so they can rotate to best position.
I got the feet onto welding bench.
Had 5 or 6 heavy showers and keep having to shift everything back indoors
First proper test of the wp20 watercooled torch. It works! Stayed nice cool at 100A and I wasnt feeling any heat. the cable is a bit short, and the tactile button I used is rubbish needs replacing.
Strange thing when I swapped to the wp17 at 60A, the back of my glove/hand/fingers were getting burnt and Im still not too sure how, or why it didnt with the wp20.
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Bending forks.
I eventually gave up on fabricated ones and forged a couple at different sizes.
Hope yours work well for you but I'd not had much success with mine, made similarly to yours. I always worked hot but invariably perhaps tried too much and I'd bend one or both of the forks.
I ended up as below (not mine but you get the idea) but have seen 'smiths fabricate them with a deeper base with more of the forks welded to a stem piece that would fit in the Hardy hole.
For steel, I found car coil springs gave the best results, cheap and plentiful
Anyway, lets hope you have more success (or you're a bit lighter handed!). than me.
All the best.
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Yep, I'd be happily fooled by that....!
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Don't over look the potential for the chair to be too low in the first place - I added some of these to all my mum's chairs - figured by the time I'd got the steel, measured, cut, made, painted . . . made a big improvement to her ease of getting up.My nan is 96 and has problems getting up from her chair, shes had one of these stander things but it wont work with her chair, it doesnt have a liftable cusion and the handles are far too high and too far forward.
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So first change is fit the down tubes directly on the U frame. Plan handles to be bolt on so they can rotate to best position.
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I got the feet onto welding bench.
Had 5 or 6 heavy showers and keep having to shift everything back indoors
First proper test of the wp20 watercooled torch. It works! Stayed nice cool at 100A and I wasnt feeling any heat. the cable is a bit short, and the tactile button I used is rubbish needs replacing.
Strange thing when I swapped to the wp17 at 60A, the back of my glove/hand/fingers were getting burnt and Im still not too sure how, or why it didnt with the wp20.
Morris Settee Raiser - Adjustable Height Frames
Morris Settee Raiser - Adjustable Height Frames
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