Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#1486** » 12:31:38, 23-11-2019

**#1487** » 08:35:38, 24-11-2019

....lots of "water under the bridge" since My last notification that there´s been updates.....loads of good news and progress, intermingled with some interesting portrayals of you're daily "Grandpa-garden" routine. ( :klia:

..... hope the intended meaning of the "reinvented word" comes through...)

Keep up the god ! .....both work and spirit .... :buga:

**#1488** » 21:17:19, 24-11-2019

jörgen.ottosson skrev:....lots of "water under the bridge" since My last notification that there´s been updates.....loads of good news and progress, intermingled with some interesting portrayals of you're daily "Grandpa-garden" routine. ( ..... hope the intended meaning of the "reinvented word" comes through...)

Keep up the god ! .....both work and spirit ....

I get that problem too :aaargh:

might not get a notification for ages .. then the odd one .. no consistency :sad:

........ hard to keep up, so I tend to look in at least a few times a week :vissla:

.....

interesting 'new' word you have created there :thummar:

**#1489** » 22:26:42, 27-11-2019

well the builders ain't getting very far next door, ATM :vissla:

..... has pissed down here for days :aaargh:

... didn't turn up at all yesterday morning :huh:

.... they should have heeded the forecast ... wasn't a bad day from 11-ish :thummar:

..... managed to get a little bit done for me, after I delivered Clara to nursery .. for the day :grin:

thought i'd have a crack at getting the pins out o' the SEC ..... :vissla:

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hard fought, this bugger was, :sad:

even after a bit of a clean off ..... but got the lil' sod eventually .... :thumme:

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T'other one was a POP .... aside from being 'kin heavy :uupps:

... would not want one of these on yer foot, :uupps:

toe caps or not :smile:

... had to start with the right lil' b'stard :sad:

... but at least the easy one was a pleasant surprise :thummar:

.... as suspected ... not through bosses .. face fixed and plates bored at pin sizes ..... :vissla:

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got them all cleaned out and polished up a bit, before giving 'em a good coat o' grease, ... as the bloody rain kicked off again :aaargh:

.... and the day light disappeared :sad:

regrettably these are at 18" ctrs ..... 'Drema's Miller is 400s, so can't just either, bush it down, or get the pins reduced in the middle 280mm :sad:

... but as said before, I have a few ideas :idee3:

... just deciding on the easiest / most convenient / least effort way to get there .... the one quandry I really have is whether to adapt, so's it'll revert to original or simply alter it permanently ??? 'sahelluva weapon though .... build quality is real nice :cool:

Pins cleaned up well on the bench .. even the grease ports took lube and ejected what was in there :thumme:

... went round this with the gun while it was in me mitts and all took very little TBF ... I'd be surprised if this has ever done any work :vissla:

.... now all I need is some dryness ...... absoluuuutely lashing it down here again ... bouncing off the Veluxes upstairs ... can hear it down here -- above Pam's TV volume :sad:

**#1490** » 18:26:18, 28-11-2019

looks nice, the rust aside.....at least its not 1/2" sloop, and pins that's looking more like cranks, in there.....a little magic, to get the weather gods on your side....and your soon there. :thummar:

**#1491** » 19:59:46, 28-11-2019

jörgen.ottosson skrev: looks nice, the rust aside.....at least its not 1/2" sloop, and pins that's looking more like cranks, in there.....a little magic, to get the weather gods on your side....and your soon there.

yeh ... the weather :sad:

not a bad morning ... raining again now :sad:

..... despite the forecast saying dry for the next 7 days :sad:

V8Druid skrev:......as said before, I have a few ideas ... just deciding on the easiest / most convenient / least effort way to get there .... ........

OK . decision made .... this came up last night in me ebay saved searches ...... :grin:

much quicker than machining out a 70mm with a boring head ..... might have to give this a touch ..see once I've made a hole with it :???:

... might be here in the morning ..hopefully .. 1st class tracked

..... but I'll be surprised if it is :vissla:

been 'shopping this afternoon to me mate's with the lil' fab shop, down the road .... :grin:

.. he didn't quite have enough of what i wanted, in stock .... but I do have some that will make up the shortfall already :smile:

let's hope it's dry tomorrow :vissla:

... no Clara (had to cut my chat short with me mate, to rush back to collect her from nursery) ... and Pam is out at her dance class in the morning, so might just get something done ... especially if that 80mm broach turns up :thummar:

..... but got a bit to do otherwise :cool:

**#1492** » 23:44:45, 02-12-2019

Friday evening ..... came down about 5pm ...... :sad:

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then just after midnight the temp. noticeably leapt up and it all vanished :uupps:

.... must've risen by 10 deg.s in a matter of half an hour ? :huh:

got these set out Saturday, between barrowing piles of garden crap and burning it for Pam .... :thumme:

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Mr Hermes (carrier) arrived Saturday evening about 7.30 ...... with these :hurra:

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fifty quid each ... had to be had :grin:

... third of new price... not a mark on the one and t'other's done maybe a couple of holes at best .... can never have enough tools :vissla:

Set up the 70 mil.s yesterday ..... between yet more barrow fulls of prunings for burning .. :huh:

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was gonna have a day on 'em all today .... bad night last night though :sad:

... didn't surface 'til mid morning - pissed ... and was reminded it's Monday ... so that was another two hours shot, when we got me 'plugged in' :vissla:

...... was hoping to get to run the genny up after lunch 'praps but Pam had other plans !! .... tomorrow's another day :vissla:

lovely sky last night ...... :cool:

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and was pretty crisp, 'bout half six, this morning :uupps:

... -6C .... not long before I eventually got to sleep !! :huh:

last night was even 'whiter' than Friday ...

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and still pretty white this morning :huh:

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another stunningly different sky tonight :uupps:

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supposed to be a blue sky day tomorrow :grin:

**#1493** » 22:23:34, 05-12-2019

DPD have a new service :uupps:

...... next ****ing month delivery :huh:

..... dunno WTF this has been :???:

... been reimbursed by seller and assumed I'd never see it so got another from elsewhere ?? (phone battery) :aaargh:

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**#1494** » 22:29:55, 05-12-2019

Tuesday however was a different story :vissla:

.... least it was 'til I had to go 'grand-dad-ing' about half two ... to watch Clara's second swimming lesson ... after my presence was 'requested', as she left for nursery, in the morning!! :huh:

kicked off the day with some 70 mil.s .... genny ran up fine and we were in business ... :smile:

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although I'd set this out already, it was nice to check me measurements with the DRO on the Ajax .. :thumme:

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Spot on would adequately describe it :thummar:

the broach presented a lovely 70.1 mil hole ... which was perfect for the pins, as a nice slide fit

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then it was time to give the 80 mil.s a try :grin:

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these were a tad more 'interesting to hang on to ... didn't want to trust them to a machine vise ... can never guarantee parallel in the bar stock and DID NOT want anything hopping about with 150 quidsworth of new broach buried elbow deep .... miss my old off cut stocks from work when it comes to packing summat ... wish I'd kept more :sad:

.....Anyway, got it set up and .......

pressed the go button on't genny ....... and ****ing sod all ... done it to me again !! :aaargh:

earths off re-cleaned, although they looked perfect ... nothing ... going through the motions, but still sod all :sad:

fannied about checking all sorts and was contemplating 'jumping' the low current solenoid, to kick the starter's solenoid in, when i noticed a diode straddling the live terminal and earth on it??? Curious?? ... had it off, crimped up the spade a tad .. pressed the go button and we were in biz .. again?? :hurra:

one 80.15 mil hole later ......

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........and a sweet as fit on a well greased pin ... jeez they'm heavy lil' sods .. and on to the next ...

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it's fast approaching half two and I had to give up for the day .... would've liked to have stuck this in the band saw and sized them up, before shutting the genny off, but ..... :huh:

it'll start in the morning ... it better had anyway

just to give you an inkling ...... :vissla:

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can you see where this is going???

hopefully ... a lot more to come, tomorrow ...... forecast is dry
Bit more machining and it'll be MIG time :grin:

**#1495** » 22:40:24, 05-12-2019

well she started first flick Wednesday morning ... and no grief all day :thummar:

first up to bat was the Startrite ..... :thummar:

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get a truer cut elevating it off the bed and kinder to the blade .. not running in a looong curf :vissla:

Ajax was next up .... playing drilling machine this morning ... :cool:

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I don't bother clamping anything under 16 mil. .... much quicker ... :smile:

Out with the M16 taps ...

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pin retainers tapped in both plates and on to splitting me spreader tubes ... 88.9 CHS with a 5mm wall just ain't quite big enough inside ... 4mm wall would've been, but didn't have any/couldn't get any :sad:

..... so

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and re-set the carrier, ready to set up the pins parallel with each other ... in every plane :thumme:

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and stitched the one on ... followed by some very careful measuring ... in every plane to get t'other one dead on :vissla:

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before adding a few tacks to that one too ....... then the light and the bloody cold beat me .... :sad:

been raw here today, for standing about, fiddling, with a N Easterly to take your ears off :aaargh:

All ready for the morning ..... hoik the SEC out the trailer and get it over to the bench for a trial ... this is gonna be a 'Drema to handle it jobbie ... the 80 mm pins on their own are a handful .. two o' them and two 70,s plus all the ironmongery is waaaaaay too much for one pair of hands :uupps:

... plus I'll need 'em to align everything
if it fits it'll get braced up in position, then off for a weld up and get some bosses made up for the 70,s :vissla:

the spreader tubes for the 80,s'll get crammed full of grease ... don't want them getting stuck ............... and I can see how it looks on't Miller :grin:

then it'll be a case of lose all the sharp edges and corners ............ after Clara has been delivered to nursery .. there all day tomorrow and it's 'sposed to be dry yet again :hurra:

**#1496** » 22:59:12, 05-12-2019

Spiffing, I´d say, old Chap! :thummar:

**#1497** » 02:49:52, 06-12-2019

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Well as you see above the SEC got a lift out of where it was sat in Ollie's old trailer, for a trip to me bench :grin:

Took Clara to nursery for 9 and got back for some brekky and drag me 'working rags' on .... Pam says "you're not seriously going out there again today?" was seriously brass monkeys again this morning with a small hooley howling, but it had to be done .. woolly hat today though ... my ears suffered yesterday

sat the SEC down by me bench and relocated the 80 mm pins, ready for action

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picked this up off the bench first, to check it'd fit ... was pretty certain it'd go on ... but yer never know ... 'til you try when you're building on a tight tolerance :vissla:

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dropped it back on the bench .... and slung it for a trial fit .....

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Alignment doesn't get any better than this ... :grin:

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pins went in sweet as ...... :cool:

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gonna need a slight chamfer mod on the one 70 mm when I fit the bosses .. but only slight ... :vissla:

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then it was back on the bench for a full weld up consolidation ... once i'd got the brace in place and stitched into spot .. and got the G clamp out the way .. :smile:

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'fore it got the hot stick ...... was way too breezy today for me MIG :sad:

.... didn't bother with any pix of the weld up process ... you've all seen me welding before :vissla:

.. suffice to say it got well vee-ed out and burnt in :thummar:

70 mili. pins secured and it got lifted back into the SEC ..... re-pinned with the 80s and got airborne ... :thummar:

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might put the adapter back on t'other way round :???:

(as originally planned) when it comes off again for bossing up and some shiny tish .... difficult to tell which is optimum with a 'floppy leg' ATM... :???:

Parked it on't bench, in readiness for getting de-oiled, possibly tomorrow :huh:

gotsta get all (as much as poss.) of the mineral oil out of the ram and plumbing, ready to get 'converted to Plantohyd bio. and minimize polluting the 'Drema's tank full of bio. :sad:

......... before dashing off down for Clara :vissla:

.... Pam's not 'well' ATM ... barking like a dog, so is sensibly staying in the warm, indoors ! :thumme:

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'Sposed to rain tomorrow, so may have t' wait .... :sad:

Little un'll be here again at 7.45, so after I've taken her to nursery, I may well set up the Ajax with Rob65 's chuck I had off him and have a session boring out a load of bosses ... :thumme:

got a good dozen or more ready for opening up to 70.2 mil. for this and a few other att.s that've been awaiting their bosses for some time .... :huh:

Clara's only half day tomorrow though .. see how it goes :vissla:

One thing for sure .... SEC's gonna be a beast you'd not want to upset :uupps:

.... and it might develop a taste for Ford Rangers

.. would shake 'em like a terrier with a rat :skratta3:

**#1498** » 11:08:56, 06-12-2019

Good Show, Old Chap!! Good Show!! :buga:

Do not forget that a SEC in wrath also has a taste for neighbours with a communication issue!! :lmao:

**#1499** » 15:03:47, 06-12-2019

magirus skrev:Good Show, Old Chap!! Good Show!!
Do not forget that a SEC in wrath also has a taste for neighbours with a communication issue!!

Absolutely Mags :skratta3:

the reference to the Ford ranger is for the lad who pointed me in the direction of the SEC and bucket ..... and who continually takes the p*ss (in a good way) on another forum .... Rory often visits me here :vissla:

in his Ford Ranger :grin:

**#1500** » 02:29:26, 07-12-2019

Lie in this morning .. just getting up at 7.15 and Vicki phones to say Clara'd been up most the night, not well, so .. day off.
Sadly it has absolutely pi**ed down here since the early hours, so not done a lot either
looked like it might clear later, so Ajax time after a bite of lunch !

well it did stop and I ran the genny up .... after setting up for a 'boring' afternoon ....
got 13 done, which I had cut previously ...
would've cut some more, but it was dark by the time I'd gotten through the pile I already had ...
job for tomorrow 'praps ..... left the Ajax set up in case
... then found a set of four I'd done ages ago, which i could've stuck on the adapter yesterday
(a).. if I'd known they were there
and
(b).. hadn't had to dash off to collect the little 'un at 15.00 ...
day shot after half an hour in the park next to the school

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the CDS is not the 'roundest' of sections ... internally anyway ...... they'll do though

49 rpm and .016 feed rate, on the quill, but didn't have to take a great deal out so circa 15 thou cut to get to the desired 70.2mm and only 20mm depth ....
could probably get away with doubling the spindle speed, but the faster you spin it the more centrifugal influence you get, on the vertical tool (and possible chatter) so kept the tool as short as possible ..... not so a horizontally mounted cutter though and no flex in the cutter shaft

these machined out pretty well, on one pass, but slow at that speed .. they'll certainly do for what I want them for