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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Sunset Machine - 08-10-2015
Wish I had a big bandsaw. It would make shorter work of the job in the attached video, currently with a MRR of .17 cu in/min. I did this same job last year on a horizontal mill, but couldn't get enough coolant on the cutter. That was one one smoky, oily mess and I could only coax .25 cu in/min out of it. In contrast, this old clunk puts me to sleep...
Decided on the old gal at the last minute, you can probably tell it caught me short of a few clamps and had to improvise. Not recommended! Lean over and those tall studs sticking up will snag a shirt and pull a guy under the bridge.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 08-13-2015
casted one of these old cast iron ingot mold I did it in aluminum for a pattern that will get put in the pattern fridge and hopefully tomorrow I will cast two in Cast Iron.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 08-13-2015
Made a new piston for the one-shot oil pump on my milling machine.
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The original piston had two fiber cups placed back-to-back between a couple of round nuts that screwed onto the piston rod. The cups had shrunk, they disintegrated when handled.
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I got hold of a couple of square-section O-rings to suit the bore and made a bronze piston with grooves to suit the O-rings.
The piston sat for a week while I waited for a set of 1/4 BSF taps to arrive from eBay so i could cut the thread to screw it back onto the rod. The joys of working on obsolete stuff!
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Loctited the piston onto the rod. With a new spring behind the ball in the intake valve and a length of 4mm plastic tube to replace the 5/32 aluminium outlet tube that had been squashed, she now pumps oil through the machine again.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 08-13-2015
Started sawing some Hemlock for someone. 17 1/2 foot log 28 inches at the butt. Had to lift it on with his backhoe, my poor little tractor wouldn't budge them.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - RobWilson - 08-15-2015
Hi Grey ,,,,,,,,, whats Hemlock used in/for ?
Rob
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 08-15-2015
witches brew
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 08-15-2015
Not used a lot anymore Rob. Its heavy and hard so not used for conventional framing. Its fairly rot resistant, works great for decking on trailers and trucks. At one time it was used for floors in barns, guess with a bit of urine it never rotted. Great for timber framing.
Nice stuff to saw, there's virtually no gum when your handling it.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 08-15-2015
The final product.
![[Image: IMG_1831.jpg]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kEkRMpQ4OKg/Vc-Sb0NeImI/AAAAAAAADOg/pQfLyHX0Dxs/s1280-Ic42/IMG_1831.jpg)
He wanted the beams 6 x 11 17 1/2 feet long for a structural beam in a house. Not sure what the rest was for.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Kennyv - 08-16-2015
Not much time this week to work on stuff at home . However was in touch with PM on Fri they said they will be ready to ship Pm932 Pdf on Mon / Tues. this weekend Had a few unfinished projects to clean up. Mostly to consolidate tooling organize .Not gona be able to have room for a another tool box so time to re think of organization./ consolidation . Made a rack for toll box on ole tool cart , put a slide shelf for tooling / measuring instruments ect.. . Gona add one more draw for extended drills /reamers ect . Finished my mahogany instrument box and made a lil braze cart . Thats about it for now . Next is get my band saw back together and ill be in business. Not much room now but it will have to do.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 08-16-2015
with the damage to the brass inner parts of the nozzle in the burner that I use in my furnace I decided to replace all the major stuff like the Screw Pin (their name not mine)
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Of which I made a couple like the one in the above photo, but it wouldn't work with the way I wanted to change the plumbing setup. So I made another one only longer.
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By making it longer I was able to make more room for the air passage, plus didn't have to drill four tiny holes thru the Adapter Body to get the air where it needed to go.
In the photo of the nozzle assembled and ready to fir you can see the new Adapter Body that I made which has the oil plumbed into the back of the body and the air in the side. This configuration makes it a lot simpler for a guy in the garage to make one for his self.
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its not much but its what me and the monster did today when we wasn't sitting under the AC.