What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Bob McParticipant @bobmc91481]

I had a go at making the Universal Screw Mod Fixture in latest issue of MEW 251.

This is my rendition of John Ashtons design which I desperately needed for reducing diameters & lengths of small screws for an 00 gauge rolling road I am about to make. … Thanks John for your article; not only is the fixture usefull for small screw holding but I found that it helps when holding bushes which need to be cut to precise lengths.. I hope John doesn't mind my alterations .. I didn't have any hex bar so I just used some round stock and put a knurl on it..

see photo's of screw fitted ready for trimming to size and how I use it to hold a nylon bush also for trimming to size.

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by Andrew Johnston on 22/01/2017 21:08:35:

It's been a four C weekend.

Gears look good Andrew and looks like the program ran with out any C**kups

Do you have teh second pair still to do or did you get both sets out of the way?

Valve gear next?

J

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by Muzzer on 22/01/2017 21:55:12:

As you might expect, I will need to find an unusually tight soil pipe bend due to the positioning of the socket outside (seems to be traditional), so that job is on hold.

 

These will be the tightest you can get, most decent plumbers merchants should have them but not the DIY sheds. Don't pay that price for them though!

Edited By JasonB on 23/01/2017 19:19:24

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

Today I managed, in between nursing She Who Must Be Obeyed and other domestics, to get into the shed and work on my first engine. I finished the flywheel bearing support and gave it my own version of the engine turning treatment. I used a primer pocket brush and although the pattern is quite deep it is a much better finish (I think) than the attempt to polish out the deep scratches I had made on the aluminium. Inspired by me seeing, as a kid, the film Spirit of St. Louis. The engine was inspired by Brian Rupnow's plans so I have decided to call my engine 'Spirit of Brian.' Tomorrow I am hoping to make the eccentric hub if I can figure out the (best??) way to do it.

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Muzzer on 22/01/2017 21:55:12:

Yesterday connecting up the water and waste connections for the new utility room, toilet and workshop sink and installing the cupboard and worktop in the utility room. As you might expect, I will need to find an unusually tight soil pipe bend due to the positioning of the socket outside (seems to be traditional), so that job is on hold.

As if spider faeces aren't scatalogical enough.

Neil

[Anonymous]

Posted by JasonB on 23/01/2017 19:14:19:

Gears look good Andrew and looks like the program ran with out any C**kups

Do you have teh second pair still to do or did you get both sets out of the way?

Valve gear next?

All four gears are done; I ran the last one this morning, while working. All four here, plus the aluminium test gear:

The CAM program ran flawlessly, and I didn't break the cutter. Just as well as it was £12. Of course I had a spare, which is why it survived. If I only had one it would have gone ping first thing on Saturday morning.

I can't claim a c*ck up free weekend. I fouled up two blanks due to a defective lathe operator. Bored one hole too large before reaming, and read the wrong (shorter) dimension off the drawing for overall length on the other. If I hadn't fouled up I'd have finished yesterday. But I didn't think the neighbours would appreciate the CNC mill running at midnight.

I need to redesign the valve gear before starting on making it. I'm sorely tempted to machine the cylinder blocks as, apart from the valve ports, they're pretty much modelled in CAD. And all the key features seem to line up with the rest of the engine, as expected.

However, I need to be strict and do tedious things like get the wheels and front end finished. It'll stop me tripping over piles of parts on the kitchen floor, and it might even look like I've got a traction engine once it is on wheels. Be easier to move too when I want to revamp the kitchen.

Andrew

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Posted by JasonB on 23/01/2017 19:17:33:

Posted by Muzzer on 22/01/2017 21:55:12:

As you might expect, I will need to find an unusually tight soil pipe bend due to the positioning of the socket outside (seems to be traditional), so that job is on hold.

These will be the tightest you can get, most decent plumbers merchants should have them but not the DIY sheds. Don't pay that price for them though!

Edited By JasonB on 23/01/2017 19:19:24

Yes, that looks almost workable. I found a very similar solvent bend from FloPlast (SS168) but nobody seems to keep them on the shelf – appears to be a minority sport for people who have screwed up. The other constraint is the diameter of the hole through the wall (~110mm) which precludes push fit versions unless I fancy chiselling out the hole to a depth of several inches.

Then I found this at Toolstation. Would allow me to disassemble it without resorting to a saw. Not giveaway cheap but I've got a life to live and a long list of jobs to get through. If it doesn't look up to the job I'll see if I can find a stockist with one of yours…

Talking of which, I'm looking at floor paint for workshop use. In an ideal world I'd cough up for some epoxy 2-part paint but it's around £60 for 5L, plus £50 for 5L of sealer beforehand with coverage claimed at 8m2 per litre. For 75m2 of floor space that's quite a lot, around £220 just for the liquids. On the other hand, something like this would work out around £60 (plus some PVA wash possibly).

Does anyone have experience of floor paint to share, good or bad?

Murray

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

When I wanted one a couple of months ago the usual plumbers merchants I get tehm from said they were having a job getting tehm but I managed to pick two up from city plumbing no problem., different maker.

Did my garage in Dulux trade floor paint 20yrs ago and that gets used for woodwork and I'm in there 50% of the year, not work even in teh areas where I tend to stand. That was onto a new screed. I have used Watco 2 part paints and repair epoxies for work, good but costly.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Bob Mc on 23/01/2017 18:15:37:

I had a go at making the Universal Screw Mod Fixture in latest issue of MEW 251.

This is my rendition of John Ashtons design which I desperately needed for reducing diameters & lengths of small screws for an 00 gauge rolling road I am about to make. … Thanks John for your article; not only is the fixture usefull for small screw holding but I found that it helps when holding bushes which need to be cut to precise lengths.. I hope John doesn't mind my alterations .. I didn't have any hex bar so I just used some round stock and put a knurl on it..

see photo's of screw fitted ready for trimming to size and how I use it to hold a nylon bush also for trimming to size.

Excellent Bob,

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Finished off my S10 OH tonight tidy looking if I say so myself…

​Then brushed up on my long forgotten scraping skills, can't remember how old or where I got the tin of engineers blue from… some far distant past work on scraping bearings more than likely… more than 75% contact area but could be better on the bottom edges so not too bad… & no the blue was not on the plate class in a thick layer, just dabbed on then spread thinly

George.

[Anonymous]

I used some medium priced red garage floor paint from B&Q. It hasn't fared well; completely worn away in the most heavily used walkways. Of course I do end up with a lot of swarf, coolant and oil on the floor. Even so it wasn't one of my better buys. That why I buy machine tools; it helps hide the floor.

Andrew

Edited By Andrew Johnston on 23/01/2017 20:50:37

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Nice one George.

Neil

[Anonymous]

Posted by mechman48 on 23/01/2017 20:45:08:

Finished off my S10 OH tonight tidy looking if I say so myself…

Looks really neat.

Andrew

[Nigel McBurney 1Participant @nigelmcburney1]

at breakfast time ,my wife found water on the kitchen floor,water peeing out gof he copper pipe just above the stopcock, found the water had eroded the pipe, so replaced first few inches of pipe and the fittings which branched off to serve the kitchen plumbing,its been their 38 years since I built the bungalow,that was the morning gone,

[Mark CParticipant @markc]

Andrew,

I would recommend one of the epoxy floor paints for your workshop. It is a bit of a pain getting the floor clean and ready but it lasts ages even under heavy use. I can't remember which brand I used but expect to pay between 50 and 70 quid for paint and accelerator (I think mine used white spirit as a thinning agent).

Mark

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Andrew, I to would suggest an epoxy floor paint, just read the instructions before you start mixing it. We painted the engine shop about 50 years ago, and I think it still has the same paint on it. Warning, we mixed all the paint before we started, then read the instructions, POT life 20 minutes!

Ian S C

[densleighParticipant @densleigh]

Andrew,

I have used products from this company http://www.paintmaster.co.uk (no connection only a customer)

Done two floors with their polyurethane floor paint – 2 pack and it has proved very hardwearing

Price wise it is far cheaper than 'branded ' products from the sheds.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by densleigh on 24/01/2017 10:56:30:

I have used products from this company http://www.paintmaster.co.uk (no connection only a customer)

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Although I have not used the 'floor paint' … I have used the company **LINK** [for grey primer, and white spirit, for my roof-beams] and can confirm its excellence.

Paintmaster is only about 4miles away from me, and I used the 'Trade Counter'

My thanks to 'densleigh' for the review of the polyurethane floor-paint

MichaelG.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Thanks for the leads. Paintmaster certainly seems a lot cheaper than the normal suspects, although disappointingly they don't seem to offer any 2-part (= epoxy) floor paints. I may settle for polyurethane if I can convince myself it won't be too brittle / flaky.

Murray

[densleighParticipant @densleigh]

Hi,

Good to see I am not alone with this company as a suitable source. The only issue I had was that due to impatience I walked on the last floor I did only a few (less than 12) hours before it had gone off and my foot prints in two places damaged it. When I got to look later when it had dried properly, the footprint where it came off was on a poor cement surface that had shaled badly. It was more sand than cement being very old and poorly mixed and laid – by others.

On my main w/shop floor I have moved machinery and steel stock around by dragging and the surface has withstood that with no detriment. Thus if you are patient it does appear to be very good stuff.

Both floors have no DPC membrane and even mild dampness does not seem to have caused issues, time might say otherwise but so far ok

John

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Hi John – you say you used 2-pack which would tend to suggest epoxy (which they don't seem to sell at the moment) but you say it was polyurethane. I'm confused as to which paint you used. Do you recall? I'm thinking I should get on with it while the workshop is still relatively clear of stuff.

Murray

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Amongst other things I connected up the first radiator this evening. In no time all the machines had huddled around it to warm up. That will allow me to fit another radiator on the opposite wall and start fitting the dado sockets and lights. So I guess I'll be doing some painting first thing tomorrow.

The "little" milling machine between the wndows is the full sized Bridgeport clone. Although the head is stowed for transport, it is still dwarfed by the Shizuoka on the right. I'm going to struggle to move that thing until I've made up some sort of cunning trolley for it.

It's Chinese New Year national holiday so work is very quiet and it seems like a good time to take a few days off and get some momentum going in the workshop.

Murray

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Just flagging-up a bargain buy:

Poundland in Stockport, are [or at least were, today] selling 5v Lithium ion 1200mAh 'Power Bank' units at [predictably enough] £1 each.

O.K. it's not a lot of capacity by latest stadards, but it should run a few LEDs for a while

MichaelG.

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Various reviews on YouTube, incuding this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XnG86QMxGqw

 

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 24/01/2017 22:12:28

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