Noodle's Machinery Misadventures (on a budgetish) (2 Viewers)

[klip]

Good stuff! Is this setting up for a business you’ll transition into or just hobby? The tool holder for the lathe looks great. Definitely one of a kind.

 

[DangerNoodle]

Good stuff! Is this setting up for a business you’ll transition into or just hobby? The tool holder for the lathe looks great. Definitely one of a kind.

Just hobby stuff for now. I'm currently working to transition out from working in a shop and want to keep the same capabilities to build my own personal projects.

Slowly picking at the tool holder. Need to get some capture nuts and cap screws, and the tool holder can get trammed in so the lathe fully functional.

I also got this 12? 15? Ton arbor press for $150 out of a shop that was closing. It's a big feller compared to my columbia vice, and that things isn't super small.

 

[e9999]

^ Nice! Although I'm thinking that if in principle it could exert 15 tons of force perhaps, you'd need to exert something like 1000lbs on the handle for that. Hopefully you're not that heavy.... Then again, I suppose there are long pipes out there... Either way, have fun with it!

 

[DangerNoodle]

^ Nice! Although I'm thinking that if in principle it could exert 15 tons of force perhaps, you'd need to exert something like 1000lbs on the handle for that. Hopefully you're not that heavy.... Then again, I suppose there are long pipes out there... Either way, have fun with it!

Lol, I have no idea on the tonnage. I want to calculate the ratio on the R&P and then figure it out. The stuff I was finding online for presses that size was saying about that, but this thing doesn't have a tag and I have no idea lol.

 

[ntsqd]

For a simple leverage press it will be the ratio between the max length for the lever and the Pitch Radius of the pinion gear multiplied by however much force you can apply to the end of the lever. 30:1 seems to be the rough practical limit on the ratio.

A Basic Theory of Arbor Presses

The first thing to remember about arbor presses is that fundamentally, they are a mechanism for converting a small force into a much larger force.

blog.dakecorp.com

 

[DangerNoodle]

For a simple leverage press it will be the ratio between the max length for the lever and the Pitch Radius of the pinion gear multiplied by however much force you can apply to the end of the lever. 30:1 seems to be the rough practical limit on the ratio.

A Basic Theory of Arbor Presses

The first thing to remember about arbor presses is that fundamentally, they are a mechanism for converting a small force into a much larger force.

blog.dakecorp.com

Neat article. I guess that simplifies the math a bit.

 

[DangerNoodle]

Facebook marketplace is so bad for me.

A $700 Miller 252 popped up an hour from me.

Dude couldn't run it at his house, and no way to test it.

So, naturally, I had to go look at it. I run a 252 daily for work and would love one for the new shop.

It seemed like it was in pretty good shape, so I took a risk.

Anyways, good deal. It runs super well, but looks kind of rough.

 

[DangerNoodle]

The new 252 had a dead fan, not an uncommon problem. They like to cook those, then the motherboards, so it was time to change it.

I also decided to paint the cases since they were all coming off anyways for the fan replacement. Whoever put the gray on laid it on thick and runny. It sucked to DA off.

This also had a not so great whip on it, so I replaced it with a tweco. These don't have the trigger problems like the miller guns, and I like the feel of them.

Painting the cases tonight, and then hopefully this thing will be back up to fully working status.

 

[DangerNoodle]

 

[DangerNoodle]

The welder is blue again!

 

[KLF]

The welder is blue again!

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I bet you could call Miller and get new stickers for it.

 

[Waorani]

Don't even have to call Miller. They're available on Amazon and fleebay.

 

[PAToyota]

The welder is blue again!

I've been meaning to do that to my 250-X and Syncrowave...

 

[Malleus]

Well, the brake showed up! It is a 1500mm, 30 ton, full American style Tooling finger brake. A little light for some stuff, but for most fab stuff I do, it will be more than enough.

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Slightly disappointed, I spec'd it as a single phase machine, but a three phase machine showed up. The company is sending me parts to convert it to single, but I have no idea what they are sending. Hopefully just a VFD.

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The box looks great. I could hook up the phase converter I have, but I really don't want to always have to run this on a converter given everything else I have is now running on 220 single.

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The machine weighs 3700 lbs, it was a bit sketch to get off the trailer. The poor little mounty was picking up the back wheel. I was able to suck it in after breaking down the pallet and it went smoothly after that.

This is now the heaviest thing I have, the lathe is about 3350.

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I spec'd this punch set and had it made. It is a nice little gooseneck, and the lower is set up for 3/16th, 10G, 12G, 14G, 18G, and 20G

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What is super nice is the fact that the NC control is the exact same as the Piranha brake I used at school, so this is all known.

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It has a full NC X and Z? Backgauge which is super nice.

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Anyways, this was expensive, but I think it will be a very good machine. It was way cheaper than getting something pre imported in the US.

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I also got the plasma table out of the enclosed trailer and under the leanto so I can start working on more stuff at my Dad's.

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I lubed it up well and got it tarped. Good thing it's in the banana belt of CO lol.

I want to spend my summer vacation at your house