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| Gadget:
I finished the feed for the spindle slide today. Kind of a major milestone since I will now start working on the table. Everything fits nice and tight and the feed screw moves the spindle slide without any binding. |
| Dean W:
Wow, that's really looking good, Gadget. I like your work. Such a good thread! Dean |
| madjackghengis:
--- Quote from: Gadget on March 29, 2010, 11:31:20 AM --- --- Quote from: Bernd on March 29, 2010, 08:34:25 AM ---Nice work Gadget. I sort of had to laugh to myself reading that second to last sentence. Using a CNC mill to work on a Gingery Verticle Mill. :D Bernd --- End quote --- Actually it is a CNC router Bernd. No where near the muscle as a mill should have. But I agree, it does kind of sound funny. Mad Jack, when you get ready to build your furnace let me know. I have gotten my waste motor/vegetable oil burner pretty much perfected. No propane preheat needed, just light it and go. --- End quote --- Hi Gadget, I'd like to get my furnace built this summer, I've got the sand, clay and borax mixed, has been for years, I've got a thirty gallon barrel cut to make a Gingery type furnace with the swinging lid, and the body lifting to pull the crucible, I just haven't taken a hammer and broken up the brick to make the matrix so it won't shrink and crack. I've got both propane, for heating the house, and I've got a waste oil barrel with a couple hundred gallons of waste oil, I'd like to see your burners, I haven't played with any for years, and I expect your working model is better than anything I'd be able to start with. I've got a few hundred pounds of bronze collected over the years, and I want to get to casting it, and making something interesting out of it. I think I'll get the brick broken up, and all the dry material mixed and this fall, rap it all into the barrel and forms, and get to the firing part this fall, with the hopes of doing some serious casting over the winter, and getting going on that side of the shop. I'm really interested in seeing how you make your burners, as that's the one part I'm not much experienced at much at all. I also wanted to say I got a kick out of using CNC on your pattern, to cast as it was done a hundred years ago, but you know those guys would have expected us to be like that. mad jack |
| Gadget:
Mad Jack, I'll get some photos of the burner tomorrow for you. The basic component is a touch up paint spray head. I cut the vanes off the nozzle and soldered the holes they left shut. That gives me a nice even cone mist. My Teuere is a bit smaller than I would like but I have 1" pipe through the furnace body. I have a piece of 3/4" conduit inside that butted up against the spray nozzle to guide the oil mist and keep it from leaking on the outside of the furnace. I have a blower blowing air around the 3/4 conduit to make the burn cleaner. It will be easier to figure this out with photos so I will make a good post tomorrow explaining the burner with photos to help out. Dan PS, poured 4 more hand wheels today. I have 4 more of them to make for a friend and I will be moving on to the next assembly. |
| madjackghengis:
Hi Gadget, thanks a lot, I look forward to pictures. I've got a couple of spray guns which have seen better days, so I should have the raw material to use for the oil burner, I've been sitting on them for fifteen or twenty years, even though I never paint except with a brush and roller, or with spray cans. Looking forward to the pictures, thanks. :) mad jack |
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