What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Gordon TarlingParticipant @gordontarling37126]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 20/10/2017 10:23:45:

I've realised that although a bit heavier than balsa it is much lighter and the design can be greatly improved

I'm baffled here – how can it be a bit heavier than balsa, but much lighter?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Robin on 20/10/2017 10:48:10:

Posted by Muzzer on 19/10/2017 20:03:38:

the swarf that gets embedded in the soles and ends up all over the house. The domestic manager hadn't twigged yet but it would be only a matter of time

There was a rumour that swarf sinks in to the pile of the carpet and then saws it gently apart. I have never given this notion any credence, I have certainly never bothered to mention it to her indoors.

But Muzzer's workshop is so tidy there is no swarf, I can only think he is using CNC. If you don't have to turn the handles there is very little to do apart from make tea and tidy up.

It's only a month or two old, wait until he shows us it in a year's time.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Gordon Tarling on 20/10/2017 13:36:18:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 20/10/2017 10:23:45:

I've realised that although a bit heavier than balsa it is much lighter and the design can be greatly improved

I'm baffled here – how can it be a bit heavier than balsa, but much lighter?

Sorry I left out "than I expected" after "much lighter"

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Geoff Perkins 1 on 20/10/2017 04:03:33:

Today i cleaned and lubricated both lathes, which brings me to a question. Does anyone else on this forum have a loathing for the 'ball oilers' fitted to most modern chinese or asian lathes? I find them a proverbial pain. First you have to try and clean all around them, including the crevice between the protruding part of the ball and the brass housing. Then you grab your oil can and depress the ball with the tip of the spout while pumping the lever. Because the ball oilers are often tiny, you have no idea if the tip of the oil can is actually depressing the ball as your view of the ball is completely obscured. Then you still have no idea if any oil is actually getting in to where it's needed, so you end up flooding the surrounding area with oil while trying to pump as much in as you can. Finally, some of the balls have so little free movement that it's surprising any oil gets in at all.

By contrast, oiling my 1929 Ideal consisted of cleaning around the holes, removing a piece of wadding, dribbling in a suitable quantity of oil, and replacing the wadding. Took 1/5 of the time and i know the oil has got to where it needs to be.

 

 

That's because you are not using the correct oiler – a trigger oil can is not designed for those oilers!

 

EDIT: – Apologies to Joe Noci – I didn't see his later post on the same subject 

 

 

Edited By David Standing 1 on 20/10/2017 14:25:46

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Thanks Joe for the info on the oilers. I'll see if something similar is available locally in Brisbane, Australia. Still uncertain about how effective they are, given that on some the ball can only be depressed about 0.5mm.

Gordon W, we have available locally steel screws with a special coating designed for use with treated timber. It is light grey colour, one brand has a gloss finish, another has a matt finish, but either seem to work well in my experience.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

IIRC, balsa wood is technically a hard wood.

I have some decking screws that are ceramic coated(?) and a sort of light green, slightly glossy finish, so presumably corrosion resistant. But not enough even for one set. If I hadn't won previously a load of collated screws at Lidl (£5 a box), I might have invested in some of those.

I tend to let things get (relatively) messy, then have a periodic tidy up. But mostly I try to confine the mess in the first place so that there's less work involved finally. I'm not one of those anal "5S" types with the shadow boards and the polished floor although it's all relative….

Murray

[RobinParticipant @robin]

I think everyone has a Pig sty level, a level of mess where they have to stop and tidy up. My wife's pig sty threshold is very low compared to mine, so she gets to do all the tidying up.

[thaiguzziParticipant @thaiguzzi]

Posted by Mick Henshall on 20/10/2017 07:15:45:

Yes Geoff, I have them on my Boxford shaper,never quite sure if enough oil is getting where I want it, short of dismantling the machine to remove them by driving out from underneath how can they be removed? When I got my shaper it was stripped and these oilers were blown through to clear and they seemed fine now am not so sure

Mick

L/H easy out will remove and bugger up ball oilers at the same time.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Muzzer,

Mine looks thrown together compared to yours.

From a pallet:

Geoff – No heating so long johns time

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The knack with a pump can is to hold the nozzle just behind the tip with your left thumb and finger to ensure a good seal.

[Chris BarryParticipant @chrisbarry]

chrisBusy week in the workshop, got the new coolant pump from arceuro plumbed into the lathe, welded up a new trolley for a wood working Bandsaw donated to by a friend and making some new racking for metal out of some gutter pieces. Just a picture of the trolley awaiting a shelf and painting (plus a good clean in the workshop). The tidy actually started after the picture was taken.

Cheers

Chris

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Is that spectacularly OTT 'IMP' logo original?

[sean logieParticipant @seanlogie69385]

Well ….. Today I did what I've been putting off for the last couple of weeks , I painted the living room (major brownie points) ,brushed our 1 year old yesterday Newfoundland (more brownie points) 😁. Tomorrow will be tidy shed day . Make a bigger door for our lean-to shed for my son's Motorcross bike. Then wash the boat ,cut the grass ,wash the car ….. then …..but only then …. Some shed time to carry on making the 2 part dovetails for the over arm that'll one day be connected to my DIY vertical head that's in the planning thinking stage . 😊

Sean

[Chris BarryParticipant @chrisbarry]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/10/2017 22:09:27:

Is that spectacularly OTT 'IMP' logo original?

As far as I know, it’s all the actual raised metal work picked out, all I’ve done to it coming out of the car boot is lift it from the bench to the trolley.

C

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Chris Barry on 21/10/2017 22:49:18:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/10/2017 22:09:27:

Is that spectacularly OTT 'IMP' logo original?

As far as I know, it’s all the actual raised metal work picked out, all I’ve done to it coming out of the car boot is lift it from the bench to the trolley.

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**LINK**

http://www.boleynworkshop.com/coronet-imp.php

MichaelG.

[Chris BarryParticipant @chrisbarry]

That’s great,

Thanks Michael

Cheers

C

[thaiguzziParticipant @thaiguzzi]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 20/10/2017 18:02:53:

The knack with a pump can is to hold the nozzle just behind the tip with your left thumb and finger to ensure a good seal.

Indeed. Pump oil cans and ball oilers is a two handed job. Especially when using the bendy spouts which i prefer. I've never ever had a problem getting oil into a ball oiler. And all my cans in the machine shop are cheap Chinese pump cans @ 3 quid a throw. All work great.

[OldMetallerParticipant @oldmetaller]

Michael, thanks for the link to the Boleyn Workshop, what a great website!

Regards,

John.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 21/10/2017 23:23:31:

Posted by Chris Barry on 21/10/2017 22:49:18:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/10/2017 22:09:27:

Is that spectacularly OTT 'IMP' logo original?

As far as I know, it’s all the actual raised metal work picked out, all I’ve done to it coming out of the car boot is lift it from the bench to the trolley.

.

**LINK**

http://www.boleynworkshop.com/coronet-imp.php

MichaelG.

"… is attractive in appearance being finished in maroon, and a map of the World surmounted by a crown and the whole finished in gold."

Presumably their target customer was a crazed genius bent on World domination…

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

To celebrate successfully tapping two 10BA holes, I decided to get myself a 4" rotary table. After comparing deals I decided on the Warco HV6 because (a) there's barely anything between a 4" and a 6" if you step up from the very cheap indian 4" ones (which I have heard are a bit iffy). It comes with dividing plates, I can make my own tailstock and chuck backplates.

Most suppliers brand this one as their own, but they all appear to be SOBA.

Now where is that spreadsheet with the corrected hole calculations on it

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/news/article/corrected-dividing-tables-for-vertex-hv6-dividing-head

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Got up at 07:00 and spent a pleasant day wrestling an 8.05m long RSJ into my 8.1m long shed, then maneuvering it so that it was on the far side of the crane A-frame that I'd lifted it in to the shed with. This involved an auxiliary hoist and poking the end of the beam out of the hole in the back of the shed that's supposed to have a window in it.

Unfortunately, mid-afternoon the pendant for the electric auxiliary hoist managed to weld all of its switch contacts together (Up and Down). This lead to a release of magic smoke into the environment and a certain amount of bad language. Leaving the beam held up at one end with the gantry crane and resting on a step ladder at the other end, I trotted off to Screwfix and got one of their little 1 tonne chain hoists. (The 2 tonne one is only £10 more, but I needed it now, not tomorrow…).

Having fitted the new chain hoist to the trolley that had held the electric hoist, I managed to get the beam on the far side of the gantry crane with only another three hours effort.

After A break for teatime I finally got the beam suspended over the four columns that are supposed to support it and the bolts placed in the mounting holes. I called it a day at 21:30. Tomorrow I'll have the simple job of tightening all the bolts, leveling the beam with the jacking screws I put in the column feet and screwing the columns to the wall.

 

The whole project is aimed at converting my gantry crane into a bridge crane so I can move things up against the shed wall instead of having to waste a couple of feet for the gantry to run in.

 

PS:- the Screwfix chain hoist might have a rated load of one tonne, but I'm not sure that it has the industry standard 4:1 safety factor for lifting chains.

Edited By Mark Rand on 26/10/2017 23:18:33

Edited By Mark Rand on 26/10/2017 23:19:14

Edited By Mark Rand on 26/10/2017 23:21:47

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Had a couple of days off, so decided to tackle the rats-nest-with-cancer in the ceiling space above the kitchen that passed for the plumbing in our 1930s house. It's had every plumber and his dog through it from what I can tell and each has added his own layers of mystery and obsolete pipework, all fitted from above (hence the creaky floorboards everywhere – another job for later). Once I'd figured out what on earth was going on, I was able to strip out the vast majority of it (identified with red spray paint) and replumb the hot / cold / CH in modern plastic. It's pretty clear now why the hot water took so long to run through and there were a couple if worrying lengths of lead pipe which luckily weren't in use. And not an inch of pipe insulation to be seen…..

Here's just one part of the puzzle – about 1/4 of the room. Yes, it was all like this:

All working again now, nobody drowned and much improved. Hopefully I'll get back in the workshop this weekend, once we've been to dump this little lot off at the tip:

Before I put the plasterboard up there I'll have to do a similar job on the wiring of course, then I can get on with screeding and tiling the floor. Removing the 3 layers of tiles and making it good again was character forming.

Murray

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Blimey, I thought ours was bad. Getting rid of the obtrusive parts of the (no longer connected) piping for a back boiler was 'interesting' and involved removing a large wooden 'beam' from the living room that was actually boxed in pipework, leaving some ugly ceiling to sort. Mind you we still have a 6' by 3' by 2' zinc plated iron tank above the downstairs loo, presumably from when the house was off the water main. It was also 'interesting' replumbing the upstairs bathroom with pipes coming up in the tiny gap between it and the far wall – thank goodness for speedfit! I don't see it coming out of the 18" x 12" hatch anytime soon…

Neil

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Chris Barry – just seen your picture (21/10/17 – 21:52:37). In my workshop that WOULD be clean and tidy!

Chris

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I trust you hung on to the lead pipe. So useful for fitting gate hangers to granite posts.

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