Are you a tool nerd?

[DeTRacted]

Not a video John but try this:

http://www.tap-die.com/contents/en-uk/d296_Tip_Remove_Broken_Tap_Drill_Reamer_Tap_and_Die_Co.html

[JohnD]

Thanks, DTR!  Learn something every day, and I have!

J.

[Nick Jones]

New one on me.  Will try to file away in case I need it one day!

Nick

[JohnD]

My latest tool itch (yes, I know, calomoine lotion) came on after watching the latest Project Binkie episode, the one where Richard spends hours of his life unravelling a car loom.     Not that I want to do this, but I noticed the handy set of terminal extractor tools that he had.  See the episode, about 15 minutes in: 

 

I've searched eBay and Amazon, and all that is on offer are sets of flimsy looking keys on a split ring, or boxed sets, at prices that are likewise split from less than £5 to more than £40. The first I don't trust, and as the second are sometimes in Red Boxes, I don't trust them either.      Anyone know of the handy looking tool set that is used in the BO workshop?    It's made by Blue Point so won't be cheap or nasty, and  comprises solid plastic housings, with three, or six keys pivoted on one or two common shafts, in the manner of some allen key sets.  Voila: 

BUt nothing like it is to be seen on t'Net.  Any ideas?  Thanks!

John  (off for a good scratch!)  

Edited October 15, 2018 by JohnD

[rogerguzzi]

Hello All

               How about this for those SMALL turning jobs? (78"centres! and 22" swing!)

Now what can I make that requires a lathe that big?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Used-metal-turning-lathe/113310969961?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Roger

ps just noticed it has a removable bed gap as well! so about 40"swing!!! (lorry flywheel?)

[rogerguzzi]

pps you would need bloody long arms to start and stop it if working at tail stock end! (i can,t see a remote clutch lever!)

Roger

[yorkshire_spam]

Puts my little pillar drill to shame:

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/736e0163-ee99-4df0-8a8d-a97c00aef98b

 

Or 4.5m bed lathe? 

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/edf2ccfa-b620-4ba9-a52a-a97c00af00a9

Edited October 17, 2018 by yorkshire_spam

[rogerguzzi]

22 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said:

Puts my little pillar drill to shame:

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/736e0163-ee99-4df0-8a8d-a97c00aef98b

 

Or 4.5m bed lathe? 

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/edf2ccfa-b620-4ba9-a52a-a97c00af00a9

Hello

         Just the job for all those LITTLE jobs

I used to use one just a bit smaller than that when I was an apprentice and it took no prisoners if the job was not well bolted bown!

Roger

ps at those prices worth more in scrap?

[JohnD]

On 8/5/2018 at 8:59 PM, rogerguzzi said:

Hello All

               We went to a local classic car show today and I bought a couple of things one was a NOS cylinder head gasket set(payne)

The other was a complete brain storm moment and to wind John D up!

I have not remotest use for it but what the hell !! and now I may have the biggest one on this forum!

So has anyone got anything between 12" and 16" diameter that need measuring?

The piston is an old one of John,s for reference of size!

Roger

ps its even bigger than Spitty flywheel!

when you have all finished laughing I may take to Severn Valley Railway and donate it if they want it!

WhooHoo!   Beatcha, Roger!   Not, actaully as I haven't bought it. but this is a SIXTEEN to SEVENTEEN INCH micrometer, currnetly in an online auction: https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/jps-surveyors/catalogue-id-jp10253/lot-7c6386d6-ccbb-4bc7-b36c-a96f010bef18

I am a sorely tempted, but will do my best NOT to buy it!

 

Roger lent me his set of length bars, to check my 'nest' of micrometers, and the same auction includes TWO sets of them, that look as if they would do for anything from one to twenty inches!  No bids!

John

Edited October 19, 2018 by JohnD

[GT6Steve]

I have mic's up to sixteen inch and a neat set of mitotoyo reference bars.  Don't know why but I couldn't let them go in the trashbin when we closed the plant LOL  Also a huge set of inside bore mic's come to think of it.  Anybody have a twelve inch piston?   Hmmm, I may be sorry I asked that question LOL

Edited October 19, 2018 by GT6Steve

[rogerguzzi]

3 hours ago, JohnD said:

WhooHoo!   Beatcha, Roger!   Not, actaully as I haven't bought it. but this is a SIXTEEN to SEVENTEEN INCH micrometer, currnetly in an online auction: https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/jps-surveyors/catalogue-id-jp10253/lot-7c6386d6-ccbb-4bc7-b36c-a96f010bef18

I am a sorely tempted, but will do my best NOT to buy it!

 

Roger lent me his set of length bars, to check my 'nest' of micrometers, and the same auction includes TWO sets of them, that look as if they would do for anything from one to twenty inches!  No bids!

John

Hello John

                    Go on you know you want to !!!!!

F**** knows what you are going to measure? (Or perhaps frame them and hang them on the living room wall?) Memsahib would not let that happen?(still we can dream?)

I think I am going to buy another small lathe! (I know I am mad) but we are a long time dead?

I bought a Myford ML7 earlier in the year but it has not lived up to expectations! so it has to go(I think I may get more than I paid! that would be a first!

So it will be a chineze one! but it will have 12 months warranty! (boys and toys again?) still it keeps me active and out of the pub or fridge!

Now what else can I make???? am I getting worse?(or is it better?)

Roger

ps perhaps one of these then we will need the BIG measuring instruments!

[Nick Jones]

1 hour ago, GT6Steve said:

Anybody have a twelve inch piston?

Phil?

[JohnD]

Still have my eye on the length bars, but in another part of the forest .....

Rivet nuts.    I bought myslf a nut rivetting tool, like this: https://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/hand-tools/laser-nut-riveter-and-40-nut-rivets

I found that I could juuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssssttttttt pull the nut rivets closed with it.   Then I used up the rivets it came with, found that Halfords don't stock any more (Doh!) and bought some at Screwfix.    Slightly different - hexagonal section - and they demand SO much more effort to install!     I can barely cose them with both hands and causing my blood pressure to rise to probably alarming heights.

This demands much more effort than a pop-rivetter.    On that, 3mm rivets I can do one-handed, five demand two hands, but still doesn't feel like doing a 150kg bench press.    I've been using 6mm nuts - the screwfix set of nuts goes up to 12mm!   They won't fit in the  Laser tool, but I very much doubt that I could close them at all.

Anyone else use one?  Should it be as hard?    Have I bought a cheapo tool (yes, I have) that should have longer levers to compress the nut rivet?   I see "long arm" two-handed vesions of this tooll.  Are they what is really needed? EG https://www.toolstop.co.uk/sealey-ak3985-long-arm-threaded-nut-riveter-p67192

John

Edited October 22, 2018 by JohnD

[Nick Jones]

Your Toolstop link shows something that is much more like a rivnut gun.

Chris made a device earlier this year that uses spanners.  It works, though you'd probably get tired/bored if you had more than a few to do.

Nick

[thebrookster]

On 10/19/2018 at 9:26 PM, Nick Jones said:

Phil?

Nah, too small for us! Even our small generators have bigger pistons than 12" lol

[yorkshire_spam]

All joking aside I'm actually considering a bid on: https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/1a89f94b-64a7-45ed-aa7a-a97c00af0b1a

Looks like value for money!

[rogerguzzi]

Hello

            That would be a good machine but it maybe 3 phase electric !

I have a nice 2 way milling table that would probably fit on that for light milling operations!

Roger

[rogerguzzi]

2 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said:

All joking aside I'm actually considering a bid on: https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/1a89f94b-64a7-45ed-aa7a-a97c00af0b1a

Looks like value for money!

Try this site for specs

http://www.lathes.co.uk/progress-drills/index.html

It would be very good drilling machine even if you have to replace the motor (I may have a spare 1/2 hp)

[rogerguzzi]

Just now, rogerguzzi said:

Try this site for specs

http://www.lathes.co.uk/progress-drills/index.html

It would be very good drilling machine even if you have to replace the motor (I may have a spare 1/2 hp)

Have your wheetabix first before trying to lift it and your socks tucked in to catch falling bits!

Roger

[yorkshire_spam]

1 minute ago, rogerguzzi said:

Try this site for specs

http://www.lathes.co.uk/progress-drills/index.html

It would be very good drilling machine even if you have to replace the motor (I may have a spare 1/2 hp)

Cor thanks Roger. Drooooling now. I may need another shed to house all this stuff

[rogerguzzi]

And this to go with it ?

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/89ab59ff-ecfb-415d-a33e-a97c00af13eb

And this ?

https://auctions.eddisons.com/auctions/6887/eddiso10361/lot-details/971a476a-2dab-4fe4-9fce-a97c00af126d

And do not look at all the welding sets for sale!

Roger

[rogerguzzi]

Hello John

                     How about this lot?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Workshop-Scrap-Metal-Items-Lathes-Mills-Workshop-upcycle-modelmaking/323508842068?hash=item4b52a12e54:g:P~UAAOSwtItbzMAT

Roger

[JohnD]

Teeth of the gods, Roger!   That's not tool porn, it's tool totting!     Load of rubbish, with many Itmes that I wot not of.

EG, those split cylinders.  Collets for massively shanked tools?

looks like the contents of some Old Boys shed drawers.  Might be a few gems there - but it's in Essex! Too far to collect!  But thanks for the thought!

 

 

On the above, is "3-phase" a no-no for those on single phase domestic supply? 

JOhn

PS Apologies - belated congratulations!

Edited October 24, 2018 by JohnD

[Bumblebee]

You can use a static phase converter John to run 3 phase off a single phase supply. A cheap one will be 400 quid new although the bay may sort you out. 

https://www.scosarg.com/static-phase-converter-2-0-hp-1-5kw

Of course the initial outlay is a lot , but everytime you buy something for half the price as it is 3 phase it pays for itself. We use one to open our warehouse shutter door as the motor is 3 and the supply is single phase. 

[GT6Steve]

The trick for three phase is to buy a super cheapy static converter and use it as simply a starter for a larger scrap three phase motor.  If you keep asking at the rewind shop in your town they will eventually give you a 3-5 HP three phase motor with a spoiled shaft.  When started under no load your cheapy static converter will get the motor going and it becomes a three phase Ttransformer essentially giving you a nice clean three phase power for your equipment.  I run all of my equipment from one such converter.  In addition, the internet is filled with DIY plans for building the static converter.

As for converting to a single phase motor that is generally unfeasable as the same HP will have a considerably larger frame than the equivalent three phase motor.

http://www.nojolt.com/how-to-build-a-rotary-phase-converter.shtml