What Did You Buy Today?

[pontiac428]

Probably not "made by" Lee, but made by someone who had some lead-based material and poured it into a Lee ingot casting mould...

Lee 4-Cavity Ingot Mold Handle

The Lee 4-Cavity Ingot Mold is used to cast 1/2 and 1 pound ingots. It features a hard wood handle that stays cool even during extended casting sessions...

www.midwayusa.com

 

[Dhal22]

I wonder what purity us plumber’s lead for lead and oakum joints is?

 

[WobblyHand]

I wonder what purity us plumber’s lead for lead and oakum joints is?

It's around 99% as I recall, pretty pure lead. Might be a little higher purity actually. Lead flashing is pretty pure as well.

 

[woodchucker]

Back in the 60s I helped my dad pour hot lead to secure our wrought iron railing. Been pouring lead ever since... When I moved in here, I poured lead into the flag pole mounting holes, the PO had put them into the brick and they were wallowed out and not holding, the pole would drop. Lead to the rescue. For nose weight on my gliders, put some clay in the nose with a light weight produce bag to make a plug, remove, put it into a plastic cup, pour plaster in, remove, let dry, then remove the cup and plug, then after a week or so start a low oven to cook the plaster to dry.
pour my lead into it, and it fit into the nose perfectly usually. yea, the plaster would crack sometimes.. but I still got the pour.

 

[wachuko]

Probably not "made by" Lee, but made by someone who had some lead-based material and poured it into a Lee ingot casting mould...

Lee 4-Cavity Ingot Mold Handle

The Lee 4-Cavity Ingot Mold is used to cast 1/2 and 1 pound ingots. It features a hard wood handle that stays cool even during extended casting sessions...

www.midwayusa.com

Ohh... good to know. I pick them up over the weekend.

 

[dkemppai]

I might have scrapped the scales . These were measuring machines they junked when the plant closed . Was not interested in the readouts , but grabbed them all for 80/20 extrusion . Miles and miles of it . ( exagerated ) . I know at least 1000 lbs . I'm still breaking some of these down but sold quite a bit also .

I'm catching up here, but if you have some extra scales, I might be interested...

Also, looking for a R-8 2" or 3" insert face milling cutter suitable for a Bridgeport or small mill/drill.

 

[whitmore]

Ideally it would be nice to be able to use it as a little sensitive drill for ferrous metals as well. One idea I had was to make some new pulleys to suit a 1/2 HP induction motor I have spare that came from a cheap drill press I got given by a mate. Need to dig it out and check its RPM (think it's something like 1400 or 1700).

Any comments on the latter idea would be appreciated.

A small-diameter drill (probably 1 to 3mm ) needs high RPMs to achieve normal cutting speeds. It won't ever
need 1/2 horsepower, but wants 3k to 10krpm. The pictured motor pulley is likely the wrong diameter, and
it's a bit of a pain delivering DC power anyhow. Sewing-machine motors are the usual drive for
such.

I've also seen some rivet-setting items that spin a forming tool; this looks like it would
suit that purpose well, at low motor speeds.

 

[SouthernChap]

A small-diameter drill (probably 1 to 3mm ) needs high RPMs to achieve normal cutting speeds. It won't ever
need 1/2 horsepower, but wants 3k to 10krpm. The pictured motor pulley is likely the wrong diameter, and
it's a bit of a pain delivering DC power anyhow. Sewing-machine motors are the usual drive for
such.

I've also seen some rivet-setting items that spin a forming tool; this looks like it would
suit that purpose well, at low motor speeds.

Yeah, didn't really think the spare motor thing through. I'd need something like an 8" motor pulley to get 10K RPM at the spindle!

The sewing machine motor thing is doable, there are tons on AliExpress.

Thanks for the input. I'll save the induction motor. Don't know what for mind you, maybe I'll build a surface grinder!

 

[rwm]

There was a surface grinder build thread here but it never got finished....

 

[Dhal22]

Also, looking for a R-8 2" or 3" insert face milling cutter suitable for a Bridgeport or small mill/drill.

Me too.