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Thread: todays tools gloat
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16th Jun 2014, 08:52 PM #1471
Michael your reply led to the answer!
Now that your table gave some sizes, I looked at Google photos and realised that the 'm1' engraved on each cutter has nothing to do with the material it's made from..... dooh!
The second from the right in the photo just shows it when enlarged....Cheers, Joe
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22nd Jun 2014, 01:19 AM #1472Diamond Member
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Now THIS IS A GLOAT!
No, it's not mine, but Old Car Guy possibly has as much stuff as all of us put together. I haven't been through it all, - (there are pages and pages of it) but he sure has a great shed and lots of nice toys. He also sounds like a pretty decent sort of no nonsense bloke, who has worked hard with his head as well as his body, and now intends to enjoy the fruits of his labours. There is a fair bit of dribble and drool from other forum members, but OCG truly has a most impressive address and collection, enjoy
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=2122
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22nd Jun 2014, 10:03 AM #1473Member
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I have just spent the last half hour drooling at the set-up OldCarGuy has in Ohio. The post started in 2005 and I have read up to page 7 so far, and thoroughly recommend any of our guys to have a good look, especially if you like lathes, surface grinders, big garages, old cars, oh, just about anything you can think of, including an EDM machine for re-creating parts for vintage cars.
How this bloke can find everything he has beats me, there is so much stuff in these garages, it resembles a Hare & Forbes showroom.
In the early stages of the post I especially like the details of the insulation used in the walls and roof. Makes our R3 rated pink batts seem like blotting paper in comparison.
Thankyou to Ropetangler for sharing this link.
Have a great day,
Alan...
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22nd Jun 2014, 11:08 AM #1474Diamond Member
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Thanks for the feedback Alan, and I'm glad you enjoyed it as I have. He has been collecting tools for 50 years he says, and believe me there are some unbelievable bargains to be had in the good old USofA in terms of obsolete machine tools, and for that matter new tools too. That sort of stuff has always been far cheaper there than it is here. One fairly mundane piece of equipment that took my eye was the 28" x 48" steel workbench with the 6" thick steel top, you'd have to imagine that would reduce the need for an anvil somewhat!
I too noticed the insulation values, and noted them as being far higher than we have in Australia. IIRC R14.8 insulation on the garage door, R19 for the walls and R30 for all ceiling insulation. I wonder if he had insulation under the concrete slab as well, - I understand that insulated slabs are done in colder climates. Cheers Alan and enjoy the rest of it,
Rob
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22nd Jun 2014, 11:32 AM #1475Most Valued Member
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22nd Jun 2014, 12:10 PM #1476Most Valued Member
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one of my customers is building a holiday home...his ceiling insulation is R7 and walls R6...just a tad overboard IMO
we dont get that cold for long enough as they do in some other parts of the world..
I have no idea why he needs air conditioning...but I will put it in for him anyway...work is work
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22nd Jun 2014, 12:48 PM #1477
Interesting set-up he has there..... He must have worked pretty hard all his life.
WRT insulation, insulated slabes are normal in most of Europe too. I wish I had put it under my slab - you can feel the difference between the outside edge of our floors and a bit further in in both summer and winter.... The rest of the house is cosy.
Just for a sense of wha't possible, I built a heatbank for the waste heat from our fireplace flue when I built our house. It's a sheetmetal box filled with 200kg of bricks. The box is insulated with (AUS) R40 industrial insulation. The brick mass gets to 130 deg at times and hold sufficient heat for 48hrs to heat the house for about a day without the fire going - e.g. coming back from a weekend away. A thermal camera photo I took while I was testing the setup (about 25 years ago) showed NO hint of the box through the roof or walls at all.Cheers, Joe
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22nd Jun 2014, 04:12 PM #1478Diamond Member
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Stone the crows, doesn't that make a lot of sense. I may be wrong, but I imagine that the concept of an "R" value for insulation was a 20th century thing. By the time it came about, I would have thought that the idea of international standards might have been top of mind for the creators of such systems, and if international rivalries prevented a universal system, then surely the creators of the second system might have given it an "I" (for insulation) value designator. Many thanks Stu for pointing out the difference. For his climate, OCG has underdone his insulation I would have thought with those values.
Maybe not, I have just done a check, and the average low is in January with a temp of -5.5℃, but depending on how often and how much lower it goes on a reasonably frequent basis, that insulation may be O.K. but their lowest recorded temperature was -30℃ in 1982, and if it ever gets anywhere near that temperature, or even to -20℃ say, I would like more than our R3 and R5 insulation in walls and ceilings if it were my place.
Great idea with the fireplace Joe, do you use a blower to push air through your heat bank, back into the house or what? Also do you have the Flue gasses passing through the heatbank, and if so how do you stop the buildup of soot etc.
Back about 8 or so years ago, we had to replace the old 2 tube flue on our woodheater, with a 3 tube version. The 2 tube one had rockwool insulating between the 2 tubes, but the new one had only air between the inner tube and the intermediate tube, and air again between the outer 2 tubes, with a vent into the annular spaces between tubes top and bottom. This resulted in the smoke cooling in the flue to the extent that the creosotes and soot would condense and quickly build up. This was a problem especially between seasons, when the heater was idling away, just to keep the chill off and the damp out, - when we run the heater harder, enough heat goes up the flue to stop the condensing of the smoke. I also love it when you say that you used a thermal imaging camera to check for heat leaks. A medical instrument I'm guessing that you managed to borrow for the weekend. Probably a lazy $100ks worth earning its keep doing something useful out of hours, I love it
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22nd Jun 2014, 04:51 PM #1479Most Valued Member
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old car guy shore has all the gear. I think he said he had 400amp supply to his house.
thats generous. It seems that when ever i see a turret mill on tv or online in the
us there using it as a drill.
Joe where did you find a thermal imagining camera 25 years ago?
aaron
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22nd Jun 2014, 05:11 PM #1480Cba
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There are two R values commonly used in the building industry. The north American R values are based on imperial units (degrees Fahrenheit, BTU, Inches), the rest of the world uses R values based on SI units (degrees Kelvin, meter, Watt). Conversion factors can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_%28insulation%29
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22nd Jun 2014, 08:59 PM #1481
We were members of an 'owner builder group' back then (I was the Newsletter editor actually), a co-operative of largely mud-brick owner builders who helped each other. On some occasions we organised guest speakers etc and once we had the CSIRO building research centre people visit at my house - and they brought a thermal imaging camera with them!
Them were interesting times. We did stuff like fire resistance testing of mud bricks, had visits from the Indian Ministry of Public housing, did a demonstration of my mudbrick making method (developed while rehabilitating after a back operation - before you ask, it had nothing to do with building, it was required following a work accident) to the Centre of Earth Building of the University of Greoble, demonstarted mudbrick building to a UCLA architecture faculty and lots of other interesting stuff....Cheers, Joe
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26th Jun 2014, 03:22 PM #1482Pink 10EE owner
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Well done buying that Ueee
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Cylindric...-/261507496504Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.
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26th Jun 2014, 06:39 PM #1484Diamond Member
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Jones & Shipman Machine
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That grinder looks to be in as new pristine condition.
What a beauty, you are very fortunate to get such a great machine !
regards
Bruce
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26th Jun 2014, 08:14 PM #1485Pink 10EE owner
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Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.