2020 POTD Thread Archive

oh hey kvt, that's right, this was from your CL find! I've used the bender I bought a bunch of times and I'm super happy to put this back in use. Hope you're enjoying your mill!
 
Not a "today" project. Took a few trips out due to high temperature and other fun things to do.
Older Mits caliper (>20 years). Of course still works great, but the plastic pieces (to reduce cost) were springy and didn't hold the dial and would loosen. Made the dial clamp a year or so ago and finally got around to the "wheely thing". Picture shows the plastic part and the brass replacement. Looking at the picture, I went back and completed deburred and removed the rolled edges. Turns out the pieces can be a little fiddly because the tolerances were a little tighter that I expected. the wheel that allows for fine positioning is nuanced to the degree you might not see the diameter difference inside. The brass pieces works better for me as it is more solid.20200804_103544.jpg
 
To: Nogoingback

"Often wrong, but never in doubt."

That IS a classic!
 
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More cleaning of new acquisitions. This time a set of 6-12mm Tesa bore mics complete with their case. I replaced the felt in the box as well. And I designed and printed a rack to keep my cobbled together set of 11-20mm bore mics from rolling around in the draw. I’ll be doing the same for 35mm one when it’s cousins active (20-25, 25-30mm)
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Just a simple job for my son today. He wanted to change the transmission fluid on a car he bought recently. The trans is filled
through the dip stick tube, which is down along the side of the block under some intake tract stuff, and as a result, inaccessible.
Turned an adapter that will
fit into the tube with a hose that we'll route up top where we can fit a funnel. Material is 303 stainless.

Pay no attention to the chatter marks where I got a bit careless on my last pass... :)

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@mattthemuppet2 - Do you have a picture of the anode spider in your "spooge tank"? I do a fair bit of electrolysis and have often wished to be able to surround the object .
 
PHPaul said:
@mattthemuppet2 - Do you have a picture of the anode spider in your "spooge tank"? I do a fair bit of electrolysis and have often wished to be able to surround the object .
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it's just 2 bits of 3/8" (?) rebar bent into U/V shapes so they wedge into the bottom corners of the tank and tied together with fence wire at the top. Pretty ghetto to be honest. They've corroded a bit, but overall they've held up well. I just brush them off with a wire brush after every use.
 
mattthemuppet2 said:
it's just 2 bits of 3/8" (?) rebar bent into U/V shapes so they wedge into the bottom corners of the tank and tied together with fence wire at the top. Pretty ghetto to be honest. They've corroded a bit, but overall they've held up well. I just brush them off with a wire brush after every use.
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thats what I have always used also. Electrolytic derusting doesn't really need a huge surface area type of anode. Rebar works fine. Washing Soda Laundry powder is all that’s needed on the chemical side to do a real good job.
 
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