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POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?
- Thread starter wachuko
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Those look much too nice to feed the wood stove.
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Ordered a new Kohler faucet from eBay, FedEx gorillas had there way with the shipping box, came torn up and bent. Snapped the arm part of the faucet off. Unfortunately it is a cast piece and looked like potted metal to me, Grohe and some of the better brands are all stainless steel and much stronger. The piece that broke only is not thread and only had about a small amount of metal in the faucet neck that connects arm part. My thinking was to fill the neck portion with epoxy and then thread a new section.
Fedex box upon arrival
Broken support for faucet arm in, cleanly snapped from the base.
Added a plug to the base neck, backfilled with abiut 1" height of epoxy and then tapped the base neck with a M18 x 1.0 tap manually on my mill, a bit awkward to do but didn't want to spend the time to make a jig to stabilize the base.
Turning a replacement part out of bronze rod, threaded one end with a M18 x 1.0 threaded section to thread into the base neck. Fortunately a had a M18 tap that I use for my proximity stops, and the thread major and minor size worked for this repair. It required a full thread to the step with no relief. I cut a round O-ring relief at the other end that slips onto the arm. When fully threaded into the base and locked there was a few thousandth gap between end of the plastic bushing and the neck of the base.
Bronze replacement part needed to be sized and threaded accurately so when assembled there was no vertical or horizontal play in the neck. Plastic bushing has a little button that locks it into a hole on the the swivel arm.
Fedex box upon arrival
Broken support for faucet arm in, cleanly snapped from the base.
Added a plug to the base neck, backfilled with abiut 1" height of epoxy and then tapped the base neck with a M18 x 1.0 tap manually on my mill, a bit awkward to do but didn't want to spend the time to make a jig to stabilize the base.
Turning a replacement part out of bronze rod, threaded one end with a M18 x 1.0 threaded section to thread into the base neck. Fortunately a had a M18 tap that I use for my proximity stops, and the thread major and minor size worked for this repair. It required a full thread to the step with no relief. I cut a round O-ring relief at the other end that slips onto the arm. When fully threaded into the base and locked there was a few thousandth gap between end of the plastic bushing and the neck of the base.
Bronze replacement part needed to be sized and threaded accurately so when assembled there was no vertical or horizontal play in the neck. Plastic bushing has a little button that locks it into a hole on the the swivel arm.
Wow, nicely done!
Isn't is $#%#@$^%$% of a thing when you have to rebuild a brand new part because nobody give a @#%@#%@#% about the job they do?
The number of people I hear say "XYZ is a big company, they can afford it" just really frost my corn flakes! They are the same people that complain about the prices of everything going up! Well, buddy, your poor work attitude is part of the reason things cost so much!
OK, sorry for the mini-rant. It just really hit one of my hot buttons.
You did really nice work and should be proud of it!
Isn't is $#%#@$^%$% of a thing when you have to rebuild a brand new part because nobody give a @#%@#%@#% about the job they do?
The number of people I hear say "XYZ is a big company, they can afford it" just really frost my corn flakes! They are the same people that complain about the prices of everything going up! Well, buddy, your poor work attitude is part of the reason things cost so much!
OK, sorry for the mini-rant. It just really hit one of my hot buttons.
You did really nice work and should be proud of it!
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If you have oxy acetylene just wire brush the rusty areas and hit them with a big oxidizing flame. Everything bad will burn away leaving only good metal you can weld to.
Learned that trick from Mike Anthony who helped me restore a Triumph TR4 and could do amazing things with metal.
John