What Did You Buy Today?

I bought a mini carburetor (Perry No. 2400) for the Edwards 5-cylinder radial motor that I'm working on.

This is about the smallest commercial carburetor I've ever seen; hardly bigger than a bottle cap.
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Sort of hard for me to believe that it'll flow enough charge to power all 5 cylinders of this bad boy, but they tell me that: because the 5 cylinders are all firing sequentially (i.e., none are firing at the same time), that the carb need only be sized to supply one cylinder.
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If you've not seen it, I've got a build thread going here:
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Edwards Radial 5 build thread --- PHOTOS!

What's wrong with the cardboard box? Its functional & low environmental impact LOL My pic is still in camera but I made this rotisserie contraption mostly to help with assembly. Hopefully makes sense. The idea is I can rotate the engine to any position, lock it in position & work on one...
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A couple of weeks ago I picked up a HF Sheet Metal Folding Tool. https://www.harborfreight.com/18-inch-sheet-metal-folding-tool-96523.html. I had seen one in a YT video used to make a plenum for a furnace. Used it to help make a cap for the top of my chimney. Didn't work very well on the thick aluminum sheet I salvaged from the yard art aluminum skiff that was left at my new place. I thought another one of those things that work well in the video but not in practice. Through it in a box.

Decided to give it another try yesterday to make a flashing for a door threshold. The material this time was thin aluminum flashing. Worked ok on the thin flashing. Got a nice crisp bend with a bit of effort. Had to bend it way past 90 degrees to compensate for the spring back in the flashing. My take on this tool is that if you don't have a metal press brake and need to bend a one inch lip on some thin sheet metal this will get the job done. Not great but good enough to get by.
 
Giving the 3D printer some TLC...

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It has two printing heads. I will setup one for using Carbon Fiber Polycarbonate filament. That requires replacing the nozzle in that head with a Hardened Steel Nozzle... That carbon fiber reinforced filament would wear a normal nozzle very quickly. Also, it is recommended to be dedicated to that type of filament as it does badly with the others (PLA, ABS, etc.)

This is to be able to print more durable/heat resistant parts... I was researching last night for new, more durable, filaments available and this one looks to be better than nylon/nylon-X. I have been stuck in the past with only ABS and PLA...

Ordered a set of R8 collects to keep at the other house with the Wells-Index milling machine...

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And this arrived yesterday... Handle for the Kurt vise... and some elbows and pipe... one for moving the drain valve in the air compressor tank, to be easily accessible from the side and the other elbow to use on the power drawbar air system (to connect from the bottom for better hose routing)

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This followed me home yesterday, next I need to order the Swag Off-road table for it.

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IamNotImportant said:
i would like to get one like that.. don't know which one i want though.. and the table too
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Most of my life in commercial construction and many different brands have their strong points. As a plumber Ridgid everything. Bosch or Hilti for concrete, etc. And for a Portaband, Milwaukee only, their deep cut version was industry standard for decades. Variable speed trigger AND with an adjustable speed dial on the trigger. And the deep cut angle approach idea. No body else made anything like that.
 
Dhal22 said:
Most of my life in commercial construction and many different brands have their strong points. As a plumber Ridgid everything. Bosch or Hilti for concrete, etc. And for a Portaband, Milwaukee only, their deep cut version was industry standard for decades. Variable speed trigger AND with an adjustable speed dial on the trigger. And the deep cut angle approach idea. No body else made anything like that.
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For the money this one will serve me well for a long time, everyone around here is pretty sure that anything Milwaukee is made of gold. This is old school Porter cable, the only plastic on it is the handles.

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Navy Chief said:
For the money this one will serve me well for a long time, everyone around here is pretty sure that anything Milwaukee is made of gold. This is old school Porter cable, the only plastic on it is the handles.

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yeah.. i know someone whom is like that bout Milwaukee, he's a pipe fitter
 
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