2016 POTD Thread Archive

[Jason Annen]

Ground some punches for a project I have been working on. Using a Harig grind all.




Jason

 

[ebgb68]

The guys at work are hassling me any scrap that gets tossed I dig out of the trash . We converted a 9mm uzi single shot to take a magazine and someone tossed a solid chunk of Delron 1x1.5x6 inches. I had to dig for that !
Do you guys become hoarders of scrap after buying machines ?
Here's today's trash treasure ....


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[kvt]

We are not Hoarders We repurpose used materials Just a bit more than most.

 

[British Steel]

Definitely, scrounger and hoarder!
Where I work has a skip to investigate daily - recently a couple of 3-foot lengths of 5" 416 stainless (took some lifting out of the skip), a couple of hundredweight of Invar bar ranging from 1/2" to 3" and inch plate, and we're not even an engineering outfit, more science..
My workshop has a lot of furniture scrounged too, an 8-foot by 4-foot bench with two big wide ball-bearing drawers, another 5-foot by two on (scrounged) locking castors, several steel flammable-chemical cabinets for the Consumables, paint, etc. - and a dozen double-T5 fluorescent lights from the skip light it all, three of 'em with battery backup so I don't hurt myself when I pop a breaker

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[TOOLMASTER]

SPREAD OUT 40 BAGS OF MULCH :-/

I need to machine something to relax now

 

[atlas ten]

No. I was collecting materials long before I got my lathes and mill. Welder, lathe, mill, forge are only a means to repurpose materials. I have become more efficient and better equipped to use more saved materials. If I can't machine it, weld it, or even forge it then it becomes scrap. In process of making propane tank blast furnace to melt scraps too.
Jack

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[stupoty]

The guys at work are hassling me any scrap that gets tossed I dig out of the trash . We converted a 9mm uzi single shot to take a magazine and someone tossed a solid chunk of Delron 1x1.5x6 inches. I had to dig for that !
Do you guys become hoarders of scrap after buying machines ?
Here's today's trash treasure ....


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I have a very very rusty long leg vice that is going to become cast iron square and round stock in the immanent future

Stuart

 

[2volts]

Definitely, scrounger and hoarder!
...a couple of hundredweight of Invar bar ranging from 1/2" to 3" and inch plate....
Dave H. (the other one)

Invar is pretty special material, very very stable due to a very low coefficient of expansion with temperature.
Many moons ago when I was surveying, the measuring chains (bands) were made of invar.

pete

 

[tomw]

My project of the day was removing the oil pan from my 1934 Packard to investigate a rod knock. It turns out that the number 6 rod spun a bearing (the rods were modified to hold insert bearings in the 80s). The The journal is also damaged, requiring a crank grind. Further investigation shows damage to the neighboring rod bearings and journals. A very unhappy project of the day.

The car:



The bearing and rod cap:


The oil pan with lots and lots of bearing bits:



A bit of work will be required to get her on the road again.

P.S. Here is the car at the F1 racing track in Austin. I got to go around the track with an F1 driver riding in the rumble seat as part of the F1 'Driver's parade'.

 

[FOMOGO]

Beautiful car. Looks like an oiling problem. Did the bearing conversion in anyway affect or obscure oil delivery? Not familiar with your motor, many of that era didn't have pressurized oiling and shell bearings generally require it. Packard was an innovator and may have had it. Would love to see some pics of the engine and a little more info on the bearing conversion. Mike