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

[DennisCA]

I have never heard of a Finn living outside Turku or Helsingfors who has had firewood delivered to him.

Was the winter so much colder than usual for you?

Good luck

Carsten

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December was the coldest it had been in decades, down to -25C at times, been burning a lot more wood this year than usual.

Having firewood delivered home is not that unusual here, and this will be faster & easier.

My dad had 10 cubic meters (a tractor wagon load) delivered last time.

 

[paulmitchell1984]

I called in to a firm I used to work at a few years ago to raid the scrap bin, asked the guys in the office for permission.

So after 10 mins of skip diving the spoils of a quick visit.

There was another 2 piston shafts that I couldnt bring home, just to big to lift and fit in the disco, both were 7ft long x 3 inches diameter, might just have to hitch up the trailer possibly....

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Justvout of curiosity, what can the rams be used for? We occasionally get them at work

 

[Onoff]

A firepit for £18 'ish, delivered, from Banggood. Came within a couple of days. As the Covid ridden teenager was sat in the garden recuperating / "getting fresh air", I gave it some tools:

Went off to find some silver birch bark but she suddenly found her chest hurt so came back and called it a night. 7 days in but she's feeling a bit better.

 

[Hood]

Justvout of curiosity, what can the rams be used for? We occasionally get them at work

Servicing the ewes

 

[zzr1200]

Just out of curiosity, what can the rams be used for? We occasionally get them at work

The piston rods are decent material, once you are under the chrome, they turn and weld nicely.

The cylinder tubes again weld nicely and can be used for press tooling.

Basically all the main materials in Hydraulic Rams are worth keep as stock for general engineering and turning, I go skip diving to acquire cheap/free stock material. Yes sometimes you have to turn good stock into swarf to get what you need, but its free so why worry.

Just don't think you're ever going to cut a piston rod with a hand hacksaw...

Hydraulic ram re-manufacturers have loads of decent scrap metal, I've seen a 6 inch diameter by 3ft long rod dropped in the skip, because the chrome surface was scratched, if you have a lathe and want free stock......

PS...Look here...hollow ram rod used

Rotary powered welding table build.

Part one....standard workshop mug for size on table top, plus table bearing support tube and table pivot tube materials. This will be an on going build as/when time allows. ...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[nickk]

20m of accessory rope,now I’ve got that plasma cover,I’ll put it to good use,watch this space.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

I have acquired a very nice motor switch, could have been attached to a Myford Tri-Leva ...

Movably mounted about where you can see it in the picture above (of course not on the table, that will be gone), should save me bending down to the current switch in the base cabinet, which will be quite a relief, the setup and thus the machine has grown quite a bit above the base cabinet in the meantime.



And finally an independent 6" four-jaw chuck from Burnered with Myford adapter plate, as my little Myford came with a half-broken dwarf four-jaw chuck with which nothing useful can be done.

The first cleaning and oiling cycle is complete and the jaws are starting to move quite nicely, but that will get better too.

Nice evening all

Carsten

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[Pigeon_Droppings2]

The piston rods are decent material, once you are under the chrome

Suspension dampers are a descent source of lovely rod too...I have a nice stock of rods that I've kept. They come in very handy for making hinges too for things like sheet metal folders.

Wish I had my lathe still

 

[minimutly]

Suspension dampers are a descent source of lovely rod too...I have a nice stock of rods that I've kept. They come in very handy for making hinges too for things like sheet metal folders.

Wish I had my lathe still

Made a nice manual feed lever for my mill rebuild with just one such shaft.
Anyway, today I got this in the post, less than £10 delivered..

Will temporarilly replace one of the lost wheels on my mill. But how can they do this for such a low price?

 

[Beeezer]

Made a nice manual feed lever for my mill rebuild with just one such shaft.
Anyway, today I got this in the post, less than £10 delivered..
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Will temporarilly replace one of the lost wheels on my mill. But how can they do this for such a low price?

Because people like yourself buy them…

 

[zeppelin builder]

December was the coldest it had been in decades, down to -25C at times, been burning a lot more wood this year than usual.

Having firewood delivered home is not that unusual here, and this will be faster & easier.

My dad had 10 cubic meters (a tractor wagon load) delivered last time.

Turku thats a blast from the past for me
worked in the Autokumpo factory on a shutdown stayed in Vaanta iirc

 

[Nick DV]

a gerberit plastic pipe welding rig with clamps 2/4/6 inch
after a couple of simple repairs its working ok
useless probably , but you never know

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Brings back memories of using one of those for hours upon end joining miles of pipe Very quick and effective though.

 

[DennisCA]

Turku thats a blast from the past for me
worked in the Autokumpo factory on a shutdown stayed in Vaanta iirc

I should add I'm not from Turku but further north, south of Vaasa.

 

[minimutly]

Because people like yourself buy them…

Indeed, but needs must sometimes. I am planning to cast a pair of my own, larger diameter for the table, so one of them will replace this.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

I should add I'm not from Turku but further north, south of Vaasa.

So you speak more Swedish than Finnish in everyday life then, right?
Do you speak Finnish at all?


I hope your firewood has arrived by now!

Have a very nice day

Carsten

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[DennisCA]

Yeah finnish is the language I speak most poorly. I hear more russian, bosnian or vietnamese on an average day where I live, that is in addition to the main language here which is swedish.

Firewood arrives this evening, we're having a snowstorm coming just as I have to offload it!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Firewood arrives this evening, we're having a snowstorm coming just as I have to offload it!

Good luck!

Carsten

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[GRW]

Made a nice manual feed lever for my mill rebuild with just one such shaft.
Anyway, today I got this in the post, less than £10 delivered..
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Will temporarilly replace one of the lost wheels on my mill. But how can they do this for such a low price?

I have one that looks identical to that - bought for my 2nd-Hand Clarke 16sp Pillar Drill which was missing the drill bed height rack winder handle.
Works well and is small enough to not get in the way, so it's permanently mounted with a grub screw

 

[bourbon]

Today I acquired the V5 for my new to me van (thread elsewhere) Checked it over, the maximum braked towing limit is 1200kg, That surprised me, as I thought it was only 800kg. Opens up more opportunities as we are supposed to be building a trebuchet this year

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yeah finnish is the language I speak most poorly. I hear more russian, bosnian or vietnamese on an average day where I live, that is in addition to the main language here which is swedish.

Firewood arrives this evening, we're having a snowstorm coming just as I have to offload it!

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