Another new toy...
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Is it just me, or does anyone else have a (I hesitate to use the word 'fetish' 
) strange desire to accumulate old machinery?
I've just acquired another milling machine, a Swiss-made (ar at least sold by a Swiss company!) Perrin mill/ drill, to complement the Bridgeport 1ES.
It's already seeing action: one of the guys at work drives a well-blinging Corrado G60, on which he is about to replace the suspension bushes with some polyurethane ones. Now his mate has a similar car and did the same job, so he got canny and decided to design a better 'bush-puller' than his mate's cobbled-together collection of pipe, plate and studding.
Then he realised just how hard it is to cut neat shapes out of 10mm steel plate and pleaded with me to get him out of the mire.
So I've just spun up the relevant bits, and tomorrow he will be crossing my waistline with a case of Murphy's...
Best part about it is that the mill was FREE...
Alas the 25 cutters I've just bought off Ebay weren't.
Rather annoyingly I then looked in a cupboard and found a load that I forgot I had...
Christ, if only I could fabricate a new memory.
Ian
) strange desire to accumulate old machinery? I've just acquired another milling machine, a Swiss-made (ar at least sold by a Swiss company!) Perrin mill/ drill, to complement the Bridgeport 1ES.
It's already seeing action: one of the guys at work drives a well-blinging Corrado G60, on which he is about to replace the suspension bushes with some polyurethane ones. Now his mate has a similar car and did the same job, so he got canny and decided to design a better 'bush-puller' than his mate's cobbled-together collection of pipe, plate and studding.
Then he realised just how hard it is to cut neat shapes out of 10mm steel plate
and pleaded with me to get him out of the mire. So I've just spun up the relevant bits, and tomorrow he will be crossing my waistline with a case of Murphy's...
Best part about it is that the mill was FREE...
Alas the 25 cutters I've just bought off Ebay weren't.
Rather annoyingly I then looked in a cupboard and found a load that I forgot I had...
Christ, if only I could fabricate a new memory.
Ian
I would do that kind of thing if I had anywhere to put it... I've got a Lister-Petter AD1 single cylinder diesel in my kitchen. But I live in a top floor flat and I think things like milling machines would probably end up in the ground floor flat having passed through various floors and ceilings on the way...
Hmmm... at some stage I may be in the position of wanting some of the fins turned off, and a series of angled holes bored through the walls of, the cylinder of said diesel engine. (Don't know how long it'll be though...) Would you be able to do that if I supplied a suitable quantity of Murphy's?
Hmmm... at some stage I may be in the position of wanting some of the fins turned off, and a series of angled holes bored through the walls of, the cylinder of said diesel engine. (Don't know how long it'll be though...) Would you be able to do that if I supplied a suitable quantity of Murphy's?
Pigeon said:
Hmmm... at some stage I may be in the position of wanting some of the fins turned off, and a series of angled holes bored through the walls of, the cylinder of said diesel engine. (Don't know how long it'll be though...) Would you be able to do that if I supplied a suitable quantity of Murphy's?
[Dibnah] Oh aye, bit of a bugger like those fins... alluss getting in'way. Holes? Boring you say? 'Appen tha'll be needing larger mill than this'un lad.
'Owever, I do 'ave mate wi' proper machine shop like; I'm sure ee'd be more'n 'appy ter 'elpyer owt! [/Dibnah]
Flats are for girls! You need a proper house, with a garrij (Teesside speak)...
Why would you want to desecrate that lovely old machine in such a sacrilegous fashion, you heathen? I bet you go banger racing too...
Ian
It goes along with various other modifications including a different camshaft that operates both valves at the same time (hope I can persuade Lister-Petter to supply a blank), geared at 1:1 from the crankshaft, and a blower connected to the holes to be drilled in the cylinder. Uniflow-scavenged two-stroke is the idea.
I don't feel I'm destroying an irreplacable part of our industrial heritage, as the AD1 is still in production
I don't feel I'm destroying an irreplacable part of our industrial heritage, as the AD1 is still in production
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