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[RobWilson]

  Willie , I like your eye for detail and functionality .


Rob

[EdK]

(09-06-2015, 02:37 PM)Highpower Wrote: Nothing fancy. Just a couple of press sleeves for assembly / disassembly of some Jacobs drill chucks. Heavy wall tubing bored to be a slip fit in order to catch the thin lip of the chuck sleeve when pressing it off or on. I faced off the "assembly" sleeve at a 12.5° angle in order to match the angle of the gear teeth on the sleeve. Using a flat faced sleeve would put all the pressure on the inner edge of the gear with very little contact.    

I need to make that same setup for my LLambrich drill chuck. It needs a serious cleaning. It came coated with some waxy substance that so far has defeated all efforts to clean it off. It's a ball bearing chuck but has always turned fairly stiffly so I'm assuming that waxy substance is in the guts of the chuck also.

Ed

[Highpower]

OK.... last one I promise. Sort of a tool I guess.   

The Mrs. and daughter are into making their own carbonated beverages now since they bought one of the "SodaStream" machines. Like all good advertising gimmicks, where they get you is on the cost of replacing their proprietary CO2 canisters. $35 for an 11 ounce can of CO2 (Exchanged).    

No way says I! So I find an adapter fitting to convert the machine to accept commonly available (and refillable) paintball CO2 bottles. AHA!!! But then multiple trips back and forth to the local sporting goods store to get the paintball bottles refilled every time they ran out of gas started getting old real quick. ( $5 - $7 for a 20 / 24 ounce refill.) Better but still....

So the heck with! I'll buy a charging station and refill them myself! They are cheap on eBay!!!!  

Yeah, well let me tell you. THIS is what all the internet sellers are passing off as a charging station to be used on CO2 containers that hold an average of 800 - 850 PSI. Cheap zinc/brass fittings made in China along with Chinese made ball valves rated at 300 WOG. That's 300 PSI, water, oil, or gas.  

   

Again, NO THANK YOU.

I built my own using extra thick brass "Instrument grade" (high pressure) fittings and 100% stainless steel valves and stainless steel braided hoses all rated at 1000 PSI +. The cost of the CO2 in my 50 lb. tank works out to around 30 cents per 20 ounce refill at home vs. the $35 11 ounce bottles at Bed Bath And Beyond....

MUCH better.

   

[Highpower]

(09-06-2015, 03:18 PM)RobWilson. Wrote:   Willie , I like your eye for detail and functionality .


Rob

Compared to you I'm a hammer and chisel hack Rob!  

But I keep trying anyway.  

[Highpower]

(09-06-2015, 03:36 PM)EdK Wrote: I need to make that same setup for my LLambrich drill chuck. It needs a serious cleaning. It came coated with some waxy substance that so far has defeated all efforts to clean it off. It's a ball bearing chuck but has always turned fairly stiffly so I'm assuming that waxy substance is in the guts of the chuck also.

Ed

I understand Ed. My Jacobs ball bearing chucks are all the "newer" style (NOT made in the USA) and have never felt right since new. That particular chuck seized up on me and I thought I broke something inside.  

Fortunately(?) it was just a chunk of swarf that broke loose from the inside of the chuck body. Really rough machining inside, lot's of burrs, and the bores for the jaws were egg shaped. I had to re-cut them with an adjustable reamer to get them round and smooth. It now works like it SHOULD have when I bought it new. I'll pull my other one apart and go through it as well.

I'm sure your LLambrich is just gummed up with sticky stuff like you said. But you still gotta get in there to clean it all out.  

[Mayhem]

(08-28-2015, 08:16 AM)zmotorsports Wrote: ...My ONLY problem with Rob's pictures is that when I see his work and then mine, I have second thoughts about posting some of mine.

Mike.

I'm with you Mike. That is why I am taking my time to make some shiny tools

The problem is that if they look too good then I don't want to use them for fear of spoiling them. That is why many of mine lack polish (well that is my excuse and I'm sticking to it).

[Sunset Machine]

Even my machines are ugly.

[EdK]

I made this pump center a while back and it sure is handy. I used these plans.

http://www.homemetalshopclub.org/project...pcntr.html

Ed

         

   

[stevec]

Ed, why is it called a "pump" center?

Steve

[Mayhem]

(09-08-2015, 06:06 AM)stevec Wrote: ...why is it called a "pump" center?...

Because "shiny spring-loaded pointy thing" just isn't as catchy a name Steve