Today I acquired...........

[Exuptoy]

I have been turning steel and swarf everywhere. I will make a swarf wand. Magnets ordered 8pm last night..

They are bloody strong. Just waiting for my 20mm acetal rods, but Im having doubts 2.5mm wall thickness will be strong enough.

please do a build thread on this?

 

[Dr.Al]

I have been turning steel and swarf everywhere. I will make a swarf wand. Magnets ordered 8pm last night..

They are bloody strong. Just waiting for my 20mm acetal rods, but Im having doubts 2.5mm wall thickness will be strong enough.

I made one of these sort of things out of some aluminium tube with a glued-on end cap. I made a little magnet focus-y thing (basically a bit of copper wrapped round the magnet to make a magnetic gap and then a steel slug with a blind hole bored in it to hold both). That should mean more of the magnetic field goes out the end that you want it to and also gives you something to fix the pull rod to.

The one I made is about 30 mm diameter or maybe a bit more (from memory) and I keep thinking of making another one that's smaller diameter to help getting into awkward spots.

Really useful tools though, so well worth making.

 

[Kram]

please do a build thread on this?

Im not sure its worthy of a thread but I will post in the made today thread. It will be a 20mm OD, 15mm ID acetal tube, a single magnet stuck to a shaft that slides inside the tube. And a 40mm nylon washer on the shaft to stop swarf following magnet.

I think these 15x8mm magnets might be much stronger than needed, the 8mm dia x 25mm may have been a better option

Im thinking it would be useful a long flat one for sweeping the floor to clean up swarf or grinding dust.

 

[Tupers]

More airline bits for the workshop. I’m just waiting on some other fittings and I can start lying it out.

 

[Exuptoy]

More airline bits for the workshop. I’m just waiting on some other fittings and I can start lying it out.
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Where did you source that stuff and was it expensive?

 

[Arc Tourist]

………………………………….. Im thinking it would be useful a long flat one for sweeping the floor to clean up swarf or grinding dust.

That sounds like a great idea. Years ago I had a bar magnet about 24" long with wheels on the ends which we would push around the jobsites like a wide broom to pick up nails, screws and other undesirable shards of metal; yeah, brilliant idea you have there.

 

[Exuptoy]

Here ya go Mike

https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-to...5fXUKAzd3GfXh7MnE-Dk8fpFA4akNTWBoCztEQAvD_BwE

 

[Arc Tourist]

Here ya go Mike

https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-tools/magnets/industrial-magnetic-sweeper-35cm/p/ZT1002280X?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=pla+|+Hand Tools&utm_term=ZT1002280X&utm_medium=pla_css_2&targetid=pla-395668152878&loc_physical_ms=9045384&dev=t&gclid=CjwKCAiAzNj9BRBDEiwAPsL0dxzYy8NG2CV5M99gfLuaok5fXUKAzd3GfXh7MnE-Dk8fpFA4akNTWBoCztEQAvD_BwE

Yeah, that's like it Mr. D, but you would have to use a glove to remove the spoils. Got lucky finding my tractor key with it too. Great tool for bottle cap collectors sweeping sport fields.

 

[bricol]

When you're in a can plant and somethings goes wrong, machines start to throw cans out - you can end up with a lot of cans needing picking up . . . in a steel plant, walk around with a magnet taped to the end of anything stick shaped, waving it around - amazing how many will stick - then a BANG on the side the bin, and you have an empty stick again ready for more picking up . . . in an aluminium plant . . . shovels, boxes, buckets - anything to scoop them up. You can tell if you are in a plant that can't get to the bottom of its issues . . . snowploughs and large diameter flexible tubes hanging down from the plant scrap vacuum . . .

 

[Exuptoy]

Yeah, that's like it Mr. D, but you would have to use a glove to remove the spoils. Got lucky finding my tractor key with it too. Great tool for bottle cap collectors sweeping sport fields.

I think with the one in the ad, you turn the handle which disengages the magnet and your spoils drop off or at least the last one I used did. They tend to be used in food factories as obviously swarf in food or in its packaging is a business killer!

 

[Exuptoy]

Today I acquired a little gem. Got to thank @awemawson who posted a photo of an old Bantam on the "When I were a Lad" thread. It caught my attention and fired up my interest to get another bike again.
Took the bike for a shakedown run, and noticed it doesn't quite have the horsepower range of my old Harley , but then I'm not planning any long haul rides. I think it will be just fine for those leisurely trips down our back country roads. The front wheel rack worked out ok too.
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Damn Mike! That is a very pretty thing! Get this winter out of the way and I'll have to pop up and get out for a leisurely run. Some lovely roads around here!

 

[Arc Tourist]

Damn Mike! That is a very pretty thing! Get this winter out of the way and I'll have to pop up and get out for a leisurely run. Some lovely roads around here!

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired an oil burner for my smelting furnace for £30

 

[Kram]

Bearings for grinding wheel and er32. Ordered at 4pm yesterday.

Edit: large block of UHMWPE and stainless sheet

Thanks @Dcal !

 

[Tupers]

Where did you source that stuff and was it expensive?

That lot cost £263, it came from toolbayuk.com.

 

[Exuptoy]

Cheers fella.
I think looking at a few posts, if I do replace my current compressor I may run 25mm alcathene (sp?) water pipe and some compression fittings as the materials for the main run will be cheap enough. Alcathene is only £33 for 50m. I'm sure that will cope well enough with 10 bar of air.
Anyone have an opinion?

 

[Hood]

Today I acquired something that made me very happy.
These.

I have been searching for ages for them as they don't seem to be available now, they will allow me to use one of my favourite boring bars

 

[Hood]

This has made me even happier, hopefully I will get it Monday and it will be worth the wait and the big spend

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This has made me even happier, hopefully I will get it Monday and it will be worth the wait and the big spend

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I have had a few of those E mail. The name of the supplier is difference.

They never manage to get the parcel to me, with out issues or lies as to why.

I hope your delpot is better than mine.

 

[Brad93]

Those are the

This has made me even happier, hopefully I will get it Monday and it will be worth the wait and the big spend

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oh no! What have you bought?