What Did you do Today 2022

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Mike Hurley on 02/10/2022 09:30:14:

Like Frances IoM …

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Having found myself a lidl confused by the quoted numbers, I checked the advert:

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No, I don’t want to re-start the discussion about Resolution/Accuracy/Precision

… or even the one about Monsieur Vernier’s device

But will point out that the advert covers both the Caliper and the Angle Finder:

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-deals/parkside-digital-angle-finder-digital-caliper/p54707

 

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 02/10/2022 10:22:31

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

I was supposed to be doing some welding in the shed today but… Got the covid booster in one arm and flu jab in the other yesterday. Got the shivers last night and slept most of today. First time I've had a reaction to any vaccination.

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

I've spent the last few days relearning CAD in F360. Very pleased with the software so far. I've begun modelling my 2A engine kit as a nice little starter project. It's nice because not everything is dimensioned on the drawings, so getting practice taking measurements and freehand modelling the castings.

Also been able to get back to rebuilding my lathe, after an injury put me out of action. Finished getting the gearbox back together and greased up. All being well, I'll be making chips by the end of the week.

Almost ready for the mill to arrive. One more tip run, then it's just the sparks to install and I'm all set. Exciting month ahead!

[derek hall 1Participant @derekhall1]

Today I finished my Gibraltar Tool Post to the design of the late, great "Tubal Cain".

Regards to all

Derek

[Neil AParticipant @neila]

I had exactly the same reaction to the Covid booster that I had on Wednesday as Mark. I was also planning to do some work the next day, but ended up wrapped in a blanket to keep warm for most of the day, my wife also had a similar reaction. I usually have no reaction to my vaccinations. I can only assume that the current preparation is a bit more aggressive than the last ones. It was a Moderna vaccine by the way.

It's a bit frustrating when you have planned to do something. Thankfully it didn't last too long.

[Ian HewsonParticipant @ianhewson99641]

My wife and I both had the Moderna and flue vacines a fortnight ago with no after affects other than feeling where the injections were. Previous Moderna made us a bit shaky for a day.

Ian

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Painted back fence penance for speeding to much time in the workshop

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[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

Having some yearsa ago purchased an old EHT transformer from a defunct microwave I finally got around to removing the EHT winding to make a spot welder – slower than expected as it was fully impregnated with resin and proved difficult to extract. What open circuit voltage should I aim for in the new winding ?

Edited By Frances IoM on 02/10/2022 19:45:23

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

A bit chirpier today than yesterday but still didn't do any more than I ought!

As with Mark, Neil and Ian, yesterday was woozy day! Covid booster on Friday, 'Flu jab yesterday.

I'd woken yesterday with slight nausea and feeling like a wooden man made of smoke, but this passed. I spent a fairly easy day in the hot sunshine at the club track, replacing sleepers, but by the end of the afternoon I was about shot away. Some of the old wooden sleepers looked fine on top but were heavily decayed underneath.

Went to bed at 7:30! Woke at 10:30, made a mug of hot milk and footled around on the "confuser" for half an hour, back into hibernation till about 8:30n this morning. I'm sure my dreams are getting ever more surreal – just as well I don't believe in "analysing" them.

Lovely sunny weather eventually, after I'd spent much of the morning tidying the middle room – a chaos of tool-boxes, caving-kit and bits of enormous drawing board.

Then used my heavy-duty bar-benders to make some clips for the roofing sheets on my garden shelter, the material being some scrap steel fencing parts with very convenient slots already in, to fit M8 coach-bolts.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Posted by Mark Rand on 02/10/2022 16:34:17:

I was supposed to be doing some welding in the shed today but… Got the covid booster in one arm and flu jab in the other yesterday. Got the shivers last night and slept most of today. First time I've had a reaction to any vaccination.

Had both on Monday a week ago, one in each arm and on Tuesday they were trying to meet up in the middle somewhere!

Last Tuesday spent wrapped in a blanket watching, or rather not watching rubbish daytime TV.

Even today one upper arm is a bit tender to the touch, but I couldn't tell you which jab that was.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Had both my jabs a week ago. No side effects at all, not even the usual slight bruising from the needle. Perhaps they'd sharpened it up for me. Anyone remember when doctors used to autoclave syringes and sharpen the needles for re-use

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

I remember our doctor coming on his bike on a Friday for his money.

[Joseph Noci 1Participant @josephnoci1]

Posted by Nick Hughes on 01/10/2022 11:14:18:

Bought and installed Rhino7 (Also transferred my MecSoft VisualCAM licence over to MecSoft RhinoCam).

After a few years of using Alibre Design, mainly to re-draw and correct the errors that i have found in the Peter Rich Castle Class drawings, as I slowly progress through the build (Shot of the almost complete Chassis CAD below), I expect another even steeper and frustrating learning curve ahead!

If you have a few years of Alibre under the belt, why did you move to Rhino, Nick? Alibre is kind off 3D at the core, Rhino is not, nor is it parametric ( although Grasshopper addon seems to try address that, in an iffy way..)

I am a Rhino user 10 years now, purchased Alibre Aug 2020, gave it back Jan 2021.

The Chassis pictured above is not for the faint hearted in Rhino…But I find Rhino far better for general workshop projects, 3D by more circuitous means, but most work I do is well catered for by Rhino.

[Nick HughesParticipant @nickhughes97026]

H Joseph,

It is more to do with the CAM side, rather than the CAD design and Alibre will still be my primary CAD.

I used to use MecSoft AlibreCAM, that ran within Alibre Design, but due to various reasons, this was lagging behind in development compared to their other CAM offerings.

They eventually discontinued AlibreCAM and because I had current maintenance, I was offered the free option to transfer my licence over to their stand alone VisualCAD/CAM. I took this option, so that I could have access to all the enhancements not available in AlibreCAM.

Although quite a Good CAD program, I have found VisualCAD too limiting when working with imported models, preparing them for CAM.

Alibre also has very limited surface modelling functions, so Rhino overcomes this limitation.

Edited By Nick Hughes on 04/10/2022 09:42:08

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Recommissioned my loco build stand. This is the 3rd loco I've built on it, so it keeps getting modified. It has pads under the base plate so you can lever it up and insert a bit of 1" round bar to act as a roller to move it round the bench, and the overhead crane lifts it into the cradle, even this little loco is getting too heavy for me to hump around. You can see why I don't post a photo of the entre workshop, what a tip! Too much stuff in there, I can tidy up, but within minutes it's a mess again

[Joseph Noci 1Participant @josephnoci1]

Posted by Nick Hughes on 04/10/2022 09:40:17:

H Joseph,

It is more to do with the CAM side, rather than the CAD design and Alibre will still be my primary CAD.

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Alibre also has very limited surface modelling functions, so Rhino overcomes this limitation.

Understood – Thanks Nick

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

I almost didn't post this, having seen some others CAD offerings, but I'll tell you what I'm pleased as punch with this! Its taken me a couple of days, on software I've only done a few basic YouTube tutorials on. Took me about half a day to do all the other components, but this one was the real learning curve! Still some work left to do as I'm not sure it looks right at all with the fillets. Definitely a good choice of engine to start with I think.

Back to YouTube to learn how assemblies work now!

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Off to a good start, what CAD package was it?

The fillets certainly help to give the part the look of a casting and adding some more filets to the internal corners would help with that too. The downside is they can make the 3D model look a bit cluttered and even more so when you come to produce 2D drawings so I always try to do them at the end so they are easier to hide

Not sure what you are using but other programs allow the visible edges to be hidden which will not show the black lines where fillet meets flat surface and that helps a lot visually particularly as yours seems to use quite dark lines.

Keep us posted of drawing and actual build progress

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

Posted by JasonB on 05/10/2022 19:23:11:

Off to a good start, what CAD package was it?

Should have mentioned that, it's F360… Maybe I'm missing something in settings?

I did notice the missing internal fillets when I posted it here.

Thanks for the support.

Jay

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Down the bottom of the f360 screen is an icon of a screen, click that and then select visual style. There are options for shaded and the default which you have that is shaded with visual edges only

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

Nice one thanks chap

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

A breakthrough in the Drawing-Board Puzzle

The complicated parallelogram mechanism supporting the board is built around two concentric shafts. Yesterday I worked out how the links go together.

And… twigged that I might have the inner shaft the wrong way round!

Reversed it today and sure enough it all started to come together. Ish.

Counting parts suggested all the many brake-discs and plates seem to be there but that did not explain a big gap between them and the side-columns of the stand itself (three folded sheet-steel units assembled in a shape like an inverted goal-post). Measuring showed the columns are not parallel but diverge outwards by that gap.

Ah! Ummm.

Having solved yet another puzzle I re-erected the brake by trial, error and words like "bother" into something that sort of works, but like Eric Morecambe's assault on Rachmaninov's piano concerto, "not necessarily in the right order". This proved the brake relies on actually pulling the columns together against their own elasticity, to compress the brake-discs and plates. At least, it does now. Very strange. Is this right? I'm tempted to make an extra disc to reduce the pull-in needed.

So the next stage is to erect the parallelogram, counter-balance spring (a tension-spring of bus-towing heftiness) and the board sub-frame and see what happens.

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I think I have lost some small parts, but rather worryingly, I have the famous "bits left over".

Actually quite a lot of unidentifiable bits left over, and what do those drilled lugs on two of the links do, what are those "extra" holes elsewhere for, and are those two large tension-springs parts here or strays from elsewhere?

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So after a week or so of despair I think I might be able to return the thing to somewhere near full service, although not quite as it was.

And even start using it to design things, like my steam-wagon parts, again!

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

Had the sparky round this morning, quoted £600 for wiring up the workshop. Glad he remembered to ask about lighting, because I plum forgot. Decided we're going to run the lathe and the mill on the same circuit as they won't be run together. Then going to have 4 two-gang sockets dotted around, should be plenty in such a small space.

Spent the rest of the day rebuilding the Logan. Got the gearbox greased up and fitted, and the cross-slide and apron all travelling lovely and smooth. Unfortunately my health issues mean I can only do drips n drabs and take lots of little breaks. The days I could've done all this in one sitting are sorely missed! Nemmind eh…

Good day all in all!

Jay

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Jay

You didn’t forget to get a Part P certificate included for your workshop did you, hopefully your Sparky included it in his estimate, authorities can be very pedantic about certifications. Dave W

[UncouthJParticipant @uncouthj]

Posted by Samsaranda on 06/10/2022 19:51:12:

Jay

You didn’t forget to get a Part P certificate included for your workshop did you, hopefully your Sparky included it in his estimate, authorities can be very pedantic about certifications. Dave W

Surely not for a hobby shop?? Say it ain't so…!

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