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| Divided he ad:
Nice work once again Ade :thumbup: I'll see if I can stop some time... Always working! always in a hurry to get to another job :whip: I'll have to come over there one evening, put the world to rights a bit and hopefully have a better drive out and back with no snow! :) Hopefully it won't take too long to complete and then the one for your car can be done (a little quicker second time around?) and we can hear/see some racing taking place :ddb: :headbang: Ralph. |
| AdeV:
Yep, some racing would be nice.... No machining tonight, no way of cleaning up the mess :bang: Tomorrow perhaps... |
| AdeV:
Woo, Freecycle came up trumps, and I picked up a cheapie hoover today for Łnuppence. It'll do until I build that cyclone thingy... To celebrate, I finished off the sloped head drain paths; you can see them in this pic: The black arrowed lines (just about visible) show which hole drains into where. I just have to decide now whether I mill them with a flat bottom (easy), or a sloped bottom (complicated - well, more awkward than complicated I suppose). Flat is currently favourite... |
| Dean W:
Flat! Really, the correct statement would be; Does it matter? It seems like the oil will pretty much find it's way down to the bottom. Glad you found a new vacuum chip sucker! Dean |
| AdeV:
Thanks Dean - flat it is... for the simple reason it was going to be too hard to use the angle plate with the rotab on top.... In fact, the size of the sump makes it chuffing difficult to attach to the rotab at the best of times (see the fun I had with the plastic sump, several pages ago); so I came up with an alternative. It doesn't leave me much headroom, but it does mean I can spin the rotary table, see the angles AND keep my knuckles intact: The biggest problem is, that rotary table is horrific. It doesn't have any means of locking it for one thing, so I have to really keep a sharp eye on it to make sure any slack is taken up & that it doesn't try to wander off course... I'd planned to try to bring this one back into reasonable working order, but I'm thinking it might be easier just to buy a better one. Anyway, grumbles aside, I got 6 of the 9 drain holes done: Unfortunately, I'll have to take the sump off & turn it around to do those last three, I just don't have enough Y-axis travel to reach them. Tomorrow's job... |
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