Todays Project - What did you do today?

[stevec]

Ed, it's Cooper's European Lager and it's Fi-i-i-ne just the way the structions say! Specially when you consider 23 liters is a little more than 6 US gallons for around 20 bucks plus the dextrose (sugar) and incidentals (equipment).
I'm havin another,, Ahhhh!

[EdK]

(11-14-2012, 06:21 PM)stevec Wrote: Ed, would you take a break! I'm trying to load it up but I'm just as slow as I am in the shop!

OK, I'll go grab a Belgian style wheat ale which I don't particularly care for but not willing to throw out. Someone recommended it to me, they are mistaken.

Ed

[4R8]

(11-14-2012, 06:33 PM)stevec Wrote: Ed, it's Cooper's European Lager and it's Fi-i-i-ne just the way the structions say! Specially when you consider 23 liters is a little more than 6 US gallons for around 20 bucks plus the dextrose (sugar) and incidentals (equipment).
I'm havin another,, Ahhhh!

Goooooooood choice!

Coopers Brewery is here in Australia, Just an hour down the road from me! the brewery has its own golf course almost exclusively for it's employees

Their store bought stuff is the only beer i know that;s still genuilnely brewed in the bottle, cloudy due to the fact it's not filtered and has a bit of sediment due to the bottle brewing process.

Namely their Pale Ale & Sparkling ale.

Sparkling Ale @ 5.8% alc/vol surely knocks you socks off if you're not careful compared to Pale Ale at a standard 4.5%

Lets say within my circle of friends, if your glass is ever filled with "clear beer", you cop a hiding!

[dallen]

sounding like we need a brewery section, cause where there's one more will follow, sides it makes for good reading, and just think of all the neat stuff you can make in your shop like chillers and valves for your brewing hobby.

[sasquatch]

Today?? Not much so far,, gotta get mobile though and get back stripping my shaper head.

The missus has headed to Toronto for a week to her daughters, so i,m just getting ready to wash the dishes up, ,,, THEN,,, it's all paper plates for me then, for the rest of the week!! Lol

(Gotta conserve water! )

[stevec]

Had a little fun today, A while ago I rolled some rubber tires off some fixed (not swivel) casters because they didn't swivel. took them apart and set them aside for future attention (I do that a lot). I tried warming them up in boiling water to see if that would soften them up enough to be able to urge them onto their little hubs . No dice. so I thought of cutting a tapered "mandrel" to force the tires onto, stretching them out enough to then be pressed onto the hubs.
Here's a shot of the casters, tires remounted and reassembled.
   
Here's a shot of the PVC "expander" I made.I arbitrarily chose a 5° taper and there's a ¼" of 2"D lead in and ¼" of 2½ at the end .
   
I cut a "pilot" into the PVC taper that aligned the plastic hub for the "last push" to slip the expanded tire onto the hub.
I used my lathe as a press, the chuck with its jaws clear of the tire was the "base" of the press and the tailstock ram was the press ram.
I held the tire on the face of the chuck, inserted the 2" pilot of the PVC taper into the tire, couple of drops of lube and advanced the tailstock ram until the tire is at the 2.5" exit diam., back off the tailstock ram and insert the caster hub centered by it's hub extension and continue to advance the tailstock ram and watch with glee how the tire is seated back on it's hub.
Sorry I didn't step by step with the photos but I was experimenting and had no Idea of acheiving recordable success.

[sasquatch]

Nice castors, and great you got them back on!!

(Now STOP skidding them around corners!!)

[f350ca]

well done. Isn't it amazing what we can spend our time at when it has no monetary value. In the real world they'd have been in the dumpster and a new set ordered.

[EdK]

Good rescue Steve. Sure beats driving somewhere to purchase new ones.

Ed

[sasquatch]

Today, went and gassed up my truck for the weekend. Got home and see the rear tank strap is broke, hanging down!! (So is the tank!)
Jacked it back up with my hydraulic jack, twisted up some heavy wire, and restrapped it in two places.
Went out to see if it would hold ok, , held ok, but now the tank is leaking, i'm sure out of the top outlet or return line.
Gotta get this FIXED!!