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

[Barking Mat]

Not as nice as @Barking Mat 's work, also far from being art and without any nipples - today fresh from the laser cutter for the Arboga to get around the proprietary tool holders with homemade stuff:

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Designed on the cheapest CAD programme and emailed to the laser company around the corner I trust ...


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First raw, straight out of the machine, still warm .....


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.... after five minutes with wire brush and finger grinder .....

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... and after using 1200 grit wet sandpaper for two and a half hours while watching snooker.


It works without the last step and snooker, but I wanted to have a set of them in shiny and it's Crucible time.


Carsten

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Nice, what software did you use for the dxf files ?

I assume dxf ?

I had issues...

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Nice, what software did you use for the dxf files ?

I assume dxf ?

I had issues...

1)

2) Yes, dxf

3) What kind of issues?


Carsten

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[Barking Mat]

1)
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2) Yes, dxf

3) What kind of issues?


Carsten

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What was I using ?

Emachine rings a bell, I can't remember.

Allowed you to produce a file, then wanted money for a dxf file.

Thankfully @Fraserb helped me out.

That works for you and it's free.

Must investigate.

Many thanks.

Easy to use ?

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Easy to use ?

I swear a lot when I use it ....

.... but I also only use it once in a blue moon and I've always gotten there in the end
- so: the tool is much more powerful than I've used it so far and it's hard to blame the developers that I've never gained any routine at it.

It exports into a lot of formats and no, it doesn't ask for money before doing so

It's still much easier than the simplest of the really professional instruments out there.

Shouldn't cost anything by now either ....

Ask me if I may be of any help.


Carsten

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[Barking Mat]

I swear a lot when I use it ....

.... but I also only use it once in a blue moon and I've always gotten there in the end
- so: the tool is much more powerful than I've used it so far and it's hard to blame the developers that I've never gained any routine at it.

It's still much easier than the simplest of the really professional instruments out there.

Shouldn't cost anything by now either ....

Ask me if I may be of any help.


Carsten

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I will bear that in mind, thanks.

Danké schon.

My German is basic, very basic.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

My German is basic, very basic.

Hope for you your French is reasonably proper ... ... it could get a bit tiring there otherwise


Carsten

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[Barking Mat]

Hope for you your French is reasonably proper ... ... it could get a bit tiring there otherwise


Carsten

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Yeah, it's proper French, with a shocking accent, but that's life.

 

[Turbo]

Any ideas what machine/tool this big Brookes motor might be suitable for powering? It's very hefty, but only rated at 1 Horsepower (so I'm thinking it's not got the welly for stuff like compressor pumps?).
It has 4 belt grooves on its pulley, so I'm thinking maybe it is quite high torque and was perhaps able to drive some kind of multiple process machine of some kind?
(Never having had any kind of machinist /tooling /woodworking workshop background or experience, I'm only able to speculate).
It'd be nice to think it could be re-employed and back in use in a useful capacity .
There must be lots of useful things 1hp belt-drive is plenty powerful for?
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P.S. I wonder how old it might be! It says 1936 on the dataplate, buy I think that might refer to the Company or a Patent, not the motor (plus surely a very old motor would be rated at 250v which this isn't)? Anyone?

My camel back pillar drill has a similar motor driving a long flat belt. The spindle is a MT4 so it definitely needs a high torque motor for drills up to 2 5/8" !

Your motor could be off a large lathe or milling machine.

 

[Onoff]

An old strip of lorry curtain siding with the rollers still on. Rusty but they will come up clean in some citric. I have some uses for these for sure. Anyone know what channel section they run in? I tried Unistrut but it was too small.

 

[Fraserb]

What was I using ?

Emachine rings a bell, I can't remember.

Allowed you to produce a file, then wanted money for a dxf file.

Thankfully @Fraserb helped me out.

That works for you and it's free.

Must investigate.

Many thanks.

Easy to use ?

Yes it was emachineshop you used for the drawing but the newer version you need to pay to be able to convert to dxf.

 

[selectedgrub]

I've been a good boy

So see you later.

 

[GRW]

My camel back pillar drill has a similar motor driving a long flat belt. The spindle is a MT4 so it definitely needs a high torque motor for drills up to 2 5/8" !

Your motor could be off a large lathe or milling machine.

Wow, so (as Carten also suggested) these motors might not suggest much oomph from the data plate, but they have plenty of it!
It certainly looks a meaty beastie

 

[James1979]

An old strip of lorry curtain siding with the rollers still on. Rusty but they will come up clean in some citric. I have some uses for these for sure. Anyone know what channel section they run in? I tried Unistrut but it was too small.

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I will look. There is a curtain due for inspection tomorrow but it’ll be over on the ferry later.

 

[brewdexta]

Two new millstone grit gate posts, or stoops as they are called locally. While the quarry was cutting stone for the new porch I thought we would get these done at the same time. They replaced some softwood posts that @Seadog helped install over 20 years ago when we first got the place. They haven't leaded in the hinges like they used to, we will just drill them through, I can get hinges with long threads.

The old posts weren't too bad, they had received a few bashes over the years from having 100 tonnes of cobbles and countless tonnes of hard core delivered but only just beginning to rot. I shouldn't have to touch these again.

The concrete wagons is here now and the last bit of driveway will then be completed. Operation "Get all the big jobs done while your working so I can spend more time in the workshop when I retire" is well under way

 

[JMS1972]

Two new millstone grit gate posts, or stoops as they are called locally. While the quarry was cutting stone for the new porch I thought we would get these done at the same time. They replaced some softwood posts that @Seadog helped install over 20 years ago when we first got the place. They haven't leaded in the hinges like they used to, we will just drill them through, I can get hinges with long threads.

The old posts weren't too bad, they had received a few bashes over the years from having 100 tonnes of cobbles and countless tonnes of hard core delivered but only just beginning to rot. I shouldn't have to touch these again.

The concrete wagons is here now and the last bit of driveway will then be completed. Operation "Get all the big jobs done while your working so I can spend more time in the workshop when I retire" is well under way

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That's a nice view down the driveway

 

[Rannsachair]

Did not have complete sets of decent Whitworth taps, so £24.52 got me:

 

[My Old Landy]

I got this little beauty yesterday. Brokered a deal with my employer, a coffee machine for a spectrum analyser

 

[AKN]

I got this little beauty yesterday. Brokered a deal with my employer, a coffee machine for a spectrum analyser
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Very nice good deal, who’d want a coffee machine anyway? Does it have the preselector option?

 

[My Old Landy]

Very nice good deal, who’d want a coffee machine anyway? Does it have the preselector option?

It does not but it does have the programmable memory so you can set up defined areas to scan.

 

[JMS1972]

Some 5/8" capstan tooling not brilliant quality but quite a decent amount of tooling for £65 posted..