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

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Plus the hardwood stairs

Already there. This is repairs to leak damaged floors. Though the stairs are being refinished by a french polisher in the new year. Again.

John Lewis delivery went wrong and did some damage just before the leak.

 

[Robotstar5]

A nice M&W 0 - 1" depth mic, will be a bit lot more accurate than cheap plastic thing I've got for setting the timing on my Villiers engines.

 

[northwest]

Youll only like it till you ask the price! It does look good though.

Ahhh. But you and I both know you get what you pay for.

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired a digger and dumper, digger has the fancy cab angle ram on it which will be useful on tracks and working on steep banks.

Bob

 

[Pete.]

That's handy, when I want to do that with one of the demo robots I have to pack timbers under one track

 

[Rannsachair]

Got another load for the woodstore:

 

[addjunkie]

Got another load for the woodstore:
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I need to do that, burnt just about all our ash tree that came down 5 years ago. We have 3 local suppliers. One tips a softwood trailer full. Another tips a trailer of mixed. The new one delivers and stacks….same price. Guess whos had the order. Shes coming new years eve.

 

[sparkysy]

I need to replenish our wood store we burnt the last bit yesterday! Still got 2 trees to chop up that have been seasoned but the rain keeps putting me off.
Sounds like we will need it in January!!
Sy

 

[8ob]

I need to do that, burnt just about all our ash tree that came down 5 years ago. We have 3 local suppliers. One tips a softwood trailer full. Another tips a trailer of mixed. The new one delivers and stacks….same price. Guess whos had the order. Shes coming new years eve.

I need to replenish our wood store we burnt the last bit yesterday! Still got 2 trees to chop up that have been seasoned but the rain keeps putting me off.
Sounds like we will need it in January!!
Sy

Not sure where either of you are but we are doing a clearance job near Hitchin in the new year. Should be a few tons up for grabs.

Bob

 

[MattF]

New hotend.

 

[addjunkie]

Not sure where either of you are but we are doing a clearance job near Hitchin in the new year. Should be a few tons up for grabs.

Bob

Thanks for the offer but the diesel bill would kill it!

 

[DennisCA]

Any photos of the pump itself? Curious what make it is.

Took a while to get around to it, had some free time today.

Looks pretty simple in principle to me. Water intake on bottom, four pistons of some kind that build pressure, the high pressure output is on the top. It doesn't seem to be going from one piston to another for sequentially higher pressures, but to all four at once and then to a combined high pressure side.

Brass construction, can't see no cracks.

Things I don't get about this construction:

-The two adjustable knobs, they are not connected to anything, it's just two old hoses that go around the frame and end up a the back connected to nothing. Behind the control panel in between the two knobs there is a T-fitting that goes downwards to a hose, which is connected to nothing. I think maybe it's some kind of system for taking detergent and mixing it into the output. But it's probably missing some parts. I also don't understand why that needs two valves like that.

-The oil knob, what the heck does it do? I know the housing is likely oiled for obvious reasons, but I dunno what this thing is for.

 

[GSR]

My son come good for me on christmas presents today

 

[dobbslc]

Took a while to get around to it, had some free time today.

Looks pretty simple in principle to me. Water intake on bottom, four pistons of some kind that build pressure, the high pressure output is on the top. It doesn't seem to be going from one piston to another for sequentially higher pressures, but to all four at once and then to a combined high pressure side.

Brass construction, can't see no cracks.

Things I don't get about this construction:

-The two adjustable knobs, they are not connected to anything, it's just two old hoses that go around the frame and end up a the back connected to nothing. Behind the control panel in between the two knobs there is a T-fitting that goes downwards to a hose, which is connected to nothing. I think maybe it's some kind of system for taking detergent and mixing it into the output. But it's probably missing some parts. I also don't understand why that needs two valves like that.

-The oil knob, what the heck does it do? I know the housing is likely oiled for obvious reasons, but I dunno what this thing is for.

170 BAR! is that right?

 

[DennisCA]

I think it's broken, system is not pressurised

 

[25.4_mechanic]

For the holidays, I thought it was about time I got busy with something that was special,


something lasting ...


Gemstone maybe ....


why not Diamonds ....



At first I thought "professional grade, lightly used" at a low price would be the way to go:

The three linked specimens were the ones I had bought, the three loose specimens had been added by the seller without comment - when packing the goods it must have occurred to him that there is not much life left in these things ...


10mm shank would be ideal, but .... this will probably be nothing ...


Next, a buddy of mine got a bit of old product from GDR stocks, still sealed, so to speak NOS.

Ok, why not? Diamonds don't go bad ...

Note the form designation for this "test certificate" down at the edge - there everything had its order.

0.18 carats are not exactly huge, 6x20mm as a shank is also not ideal ... I'll build a holder and have a look ...

Of course, I was at the same time further on the search and stumbled across a GDR diamond myself - but a good bit larger and with even more documentation.

Almost like the "real" trade in diamonds, even in the environment of these technical necessities, it seems that people become very strange in dealing with them - better just a few questions, half-whispered emails, ...

... at times I felt reminded of "Count Number" from Sesame Street - maybe also because someone who sells diamonds from the GDR economy today couldn't possibly have got hold of them legally ....

This one also came with the inspection paper with the correct specimen number, but additionally with the then accompanying accounting document.

It took some effort to make the seller - after all someone who had lived in the GDR and continues to live on its territory, but here believed to have made the big catch - clear that the sum is a fictitious clearing value in a fictitious, no longer existing currency that wasn't even worth much when it still existed.

With this size you should be able to work well, the conical MT1 shaft is a bit annoying, but a holder for it I will already bring about.

Carsten

 

[dobbslc]

Carsten what are they?

 

[Johnnybravo]

Carsten what are they?

Mounted industrial diamonds for dressing grinding wheels

 

[MetalMonkey]

(Yesterday) Santa brought me this.
I'd been ogling them since seeing @Robbie260 great review on the Facom set.
I was torn over which one to put on my Christmas List, but I like the satin finish on the Toptul sockets, and the case is only a couple of mm wider but they manage to squeeze in a few extra bits.

I swapped out one of the spare PZ bits and the 6mm for a 7mm socket. Think this will be incredibly handy.

Everything is is pretty much identical, I assume Toptul is the OEM for these as with most Facom stuff, with possibly HiFive/Reverse Gear for the mechanism. Lovely little set.
Only slight disappointment which I didn't realise until I got it, is the inclusion of a standard 1/4" - 1/4" hex to square adaptor instead of the low profile one in the Facom set.
I might have to see about sourcing one of those separately, but perhaps not at the price Facom currently want!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Carsten what are they?

How funny you should ask that ...

Mounted industrial diamonds for dressing grinding wheels

Yep,

and here's why:

I actually found a small surface grinder a while back, just like I was looking for.


Here at a use last night with my big son to flatten two thrust bearing races by 0.375mm each.

(The flash rust, which had overtaken you before us with the sudden rise in temperature, has also fully caught our cold workshop, here only the most necessary cleaned).

The sheet metal strip is only there to reinforce the magnetic holding force,
the races with their small bearing surface could otherwise be displaced during grinding.

Here is the purpose of the exercise:
Since I had already purchased a new top slide casting for the ML7 a long time ago and had the height reduced by 2.5mm in order to be able to use the turning steels and insert holders at least up to 12mm / 1/2" without milling off the shank, the hand lever of the Multifix basic holder was protruding into the working area, I had to change that.

The lever was exactly on the opposite side, the central retaining bolt has M10x1.5, so 0.75mm had to go down, makes 0.375mm per race - I would not have known how without a surface grinder to manage - even SWMBO had to concede (if anyone still needs arguments ... ).


I notice that I have hardly made any pictures of the machine, here are the offer pictures:

The home transport of the machine also took place in low light:

Now, of course, comes the usual: Get practice, increase precision, build suction, ....

I can say that I am pretty happy



Carsten

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