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13th Mar 2023, 09:53 PM #2791
Hi Nigel,
You should have found the the vial is supported by a cotton packing underneath it in the outer tube. Once the vial is in place and correctly orientated you can then pour the plaster into the ends. Do the seal end last. These levels normally have a "V" in the bottom.
If the tube is too short use a piece of clear thin heat shrink tube over it to get the length needed.
PS. I would have robbed a cheap £ shop level for a bubble.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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14th Mar 2023, 06:45 AM #2792Philomath in training
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I had an old level that I re-vialled a while back (sorry - no video) that had the ends held by what I think would have been sulphur. I got a new vial and put a sliver or two of business card underneath it to lift it up before using plaster on the ends. I bought mine from this crowd (https://caterpillar-red.com/spirit-levels-vials/) through ebay I think
If you can identify the model number of the level, the specs on the manufacturer's website should give an idea of the precision (typically it is a height per length thing per division)
Michael
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14th Mar 2023, 11:38 AM #2793Senior Member
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That seems very coarse
My level is .02mm per Meter and not terribly expensive
https://www.mag-pro.com.au/index/ind...ls/id/256.html
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14th Mar 2023, 08:33 PM #2794Diamond Member
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Oops. You are right. 20 microns, not 2mm:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32872235091.html
Yes, a new level would have been cheaper, but I do like the design of old equipmentNigel, from a cave FULL of unfinished projects and lost tools.
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20th Mar 2023, 10:39 PM #2795Diamond Member
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Cutting corners
Making some large discs from sheet steel:
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which will become new blanks in a cam grinder,
except that the bandsaw started leaking coolant all over the floor.
Thought it might have been overflowing after being moved* on Saturday,
but no, the 10+ year old hose is brittle and cracking:
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Quick trip to Pirtek for some new 8mm OD hose. Nylon this time.
Hardest part is wrapping it back up in the protective sleeve:
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(*) Bandsaw was moved on Saturday to fit another car body in the man cave –
an stripped Austin 7 Swallow roadster, that might look something like this:
https://www.shannons.com.au/auctions...RFFMOQ8PE20F8/Nigel, from a cave FULL of unfinished projects and lost tools.
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1st Apr 2023, 10:48 PM #2796Diamond Member
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Motor tool weirdness, Lathe oiler, chuck jaw repair
1) A wall chasing tool, whose motor is behaving strangely.
It hums and vibrates on start, never spins up to speed.
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I checked resistance between each coil, and they are fairly consistent. (1.2ohms).
Tried polishing brush contact points, changing start capacitor, no change.
Tried bypassing electronic module (which I think gives a soft-start feature).
No change, and field magnets got hot.
A mystery.
2) Based on a post a few weeks ago on making a push lathe oiler, I decided to get one from eBay.
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$37 delivered.
After an annoying 1/2 hour removing the grease tip, and fitting the oil taper tip,
discovered it is too large for my oilers, so:
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Seems to work OK. Forced some milky (water bubbled) oil out from under one side of my cross slide.
3) There is some damage at the front of my AL336 3jaw jaws.
I must have somehow hit them. It has made a little ridge inside, on the gripping surface:
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So, I decide to machine it off.
Now, I have heard about putting 3 precisely sized blocks between the laws to keep them apart.
Decide to try that.
Look around for 3 blocks the same size. Find some rusty old chuck jaws. Surface grind them:
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and try to fit:
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Sadly, that wasn't far enough apart, and the angle on these adjacent jaws are not parallel,
so use the "grip a ring" method. A large ER32 nut is about right:
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(checking the factory ground radius there with an indicator)
Quickly hoed in:
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Not a perfect job, but very little light showing through:
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P.S. Also made a shelf under one lathe; https://metalworkforums.com/f65/t202...st/post1988230Nigel, from a cave FULL of unfinished projects and lost tools.
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2nd Apr 2023, 06:52 AM #2797
I bought one of these Pressol 12363 oil guns off ebay about 6 months ago and it’s holding up well.
There are claims that Pressol products are still German made and the quality appears good but there are no brand markings on the oiler which make it seem like a generic product.
Makes good pressure and does the job getting oil into the oil nipples.
I like the fact that it comes with 2 nozzles, one of which works well on my Myford. There is a knurl on the nozzle and for me it came off quite easily for replacements.
Do not over tighten the cap once you fill in oil as the rubber seal tends to move a bit and cause leakage as its only held on by a small lip.
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2nd Apr 2023, 08:53 AM #2798Golden Member
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[QUOTE=nigelpearson;2005578]1)
I checked resistance between each coil, and they are fairly consistent. (1.2ohms).
Tried polishing brush contact points, changing start capacitor, no change.
Tried bypassing electronic module (which I think gives a soft-start feature).
No change, and field magnets got hot.
A mystery.
I don't think there is a start capacitor in this type of motor, it is more likely some sort of smoothing capacitor and could actually be removed/bypassed if required. The problem is most likely with the armature.
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2nd Apr 2023, 07:10 PM #2799
Hi Nigel, Guys,
The capacitor you mention is most likely to be an interference suppression capacitor !
Its quite possible that the armature has a bad winding, either open, high resistance or a partial short, using an ohmmeter across the brushes and stepping the armature by hand one segment at a time might give you a clue.
The humming and failure to start is a clue to a short in one armature winding.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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2nd Apr 2023, 09:33 PM #2800Diamond Member
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Motor was disassembled when I got it, so I tested resistance between each adjacent segment,
instead of 180° opposite through the brushes. No time to actually trace the armature wind geometry.
One segment was a little higher than the others, something like 3ohms instead of 1ohm,
but nothing broken or shorted.
The humming/vibration occurs in any position.
i.e if I remove the power, turn the motor shaft 20°, and pull the trigger again, same behaviour.
It looks like a universal motor, but with two field findings separately wired to the electronic module.
(didn't have time to trace and document the wiring).
I did wonder if the windings are pulsed by the module for soft start and speed regulation.Nigel, from a cave FULL of unfinished projects and lost tools.
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3rd Apr 2023, 05:35 AM #2801
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14th Apr 2023, 08:41 AM #2802Diamond Member
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A simple stud
...gave up on the motor. Couldn't see anything wrong in the windings, and had already spent too much time on yet another broken 240v motor produced this century (in contrast to all the working ones that have lasted since last century!).
Onto the next little task, a rocker cover stud for a 1952 DeSoto Hemi V8:
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I'm kind of proud of that – the 5/16" UNF thread perfectly blends into the 5/16" UNC?
– although it was a rush job, so I cheated by throwing a 5/16 bolt into the lathe, parting off the excess, pushing a die to cut the UNF end, and polishing the visible end.
The first attempt didn't go so well:
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the die just caused the job to tear around in the chuck jaws. I initially tried a few nuts bolted together, but that was way off centre for parting and threading. If I ever do a batch of these, will have to make a long threaded sleeve with a slit?Nigel, from a cave FULL of unfinished projects and lost tools.
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14th Apr 2023, 01:03 PM #2803
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14th Apr 2023, 01:51 PM #2804Most Valued Member
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Motor windings don’t go high resistance from use, ever…
Mode of failure is always excessive heat which means they fail to open (heat is so high it melts the winding), short (heat is high enough to melt all the insulation) or lower resistance than otherwise intended (heat is high enough to partially melt the insulation).
If you have 2 windings higher than the other, you have two that have dropped turns because the insulation has likely melted between layers, not one that has high resistance.
You may possibly get high resistance joints from green death at the ends of the windings if the tool is mistreated and allowed to be stored wet, but that is not a usage failure.
3Ohms on one winding is not a high resistance consistent with corrosion, one ohm on two of three windings is consistent with partial failure of insulation in those windings.
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14th Apr 2023, 05:02 PM #2805Golden Member
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Motor failures can be tricky.
I bought an old Macson grinder. It came with a decent quality single phase motor (not old). The motor is designed to run with both windings powered up,
so has 2 capacitors. It looked great, but would not not run smoothly.
Looked and looked to find the problem, replaced the caps but that made no difference.
In the end I discovered that the motor had been modified to fit the machine, by shifting the baseplate on the motor casing.
Fine, except that when drilling new holes in the casing ......!!!!
Yup. He drilled right through the casing and into the windings! Being a careful chap he did not drill far into the windings, so the motor kept working - sort of. But not well enough.
Bill
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