Other What did you fab up today? A thread for the home fabricators!

[Vumad]

I just got one question. When are the storm troopers going to go to marksmanship school? They still cannot hid the broadside of a barn if they are .000000000000000039 parsecs away....

Does that bother you more or less than their armor doing absolutely nothing?

 

[mikidymac]

I just got one question. When are the storm troopers going to go to marksmanship school? They still cannot hid the broadside of a barn if they are .000000000000000039 parsecs away....

Having the armor and the blasters is utterly pointless but at least it makes us look cool.

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Made me a seal driver yesterday for my truck. The complete right front cv had to be replaced. The seal driver worked better than expected. Probably only need it this one time lol, but I have it now

 

[Austin_landers]

Getting pretty close to finished on my beach cart . Would of finished but ran out of argon on a Sunday .

 

[OCD Solutions]

Getting pretty close to finished on my beach cart . Would of finished but ran out of argon on a Sunday .

I so want a second little bottle for just that reason!
I just got my 150 filled a few weeks ago and forgot to close the valve while taking a break from my Mill Enclosure build and lost over half the damn bottle over a 4 day period.
I was so pissed with myself.

I hung a WEN Air Filtration system from the ceiling yesterday to help with the air quality in the garage while I'm working on certain projects. It's not really built for welding fume extraction but it will help for small welding jobs, grinding and sanding, plasma cutting, wood working and the aerosols created when I'm doing vacuum degassing.
I went with the big unit that can pull up to 1044 CFM so it should turn over the garage at least 10 times an hour on high and greatly reduce mask time.

Amazon.com

Now to find a PECO filter that will fit in this unit so it'll also take out some VOC's.

 

[BruceSki]

Boyer soapy water on every fitting on the argon bottle and plenty of Teflon.

I left mine open after welding one day and came out a week later to an empty bottle. I’ll never make that $100 mistake again


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[Austin_landers]

Boyer soapy water on every fitting on the argon bottle and plenty of Teflon.

I left mine open after welding one day and came out a week later to an empty bottle. I’ll never make that $100 mistake again


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That might be what happened but have never had it leak before . I swear I had 1000-1200 psi in the bottle in the morning when I started , didn’t weld much and came back from fitting some tubes and bottle was completely empty .

 

[OCD Solutions]

$100?? How big is your tank? I just paid $67 for 150 cf of 100% Argon.

The regulator that came with my Miller is usually rock solid so it was strange as I've left it on before with negligible leakage.
The one that came with the Chinese TIG is garbage so I know I need to test it every time.

I should really invest in a decent dual model so I don't have to keep swapping regulators depending on what machine I'm running.

 

[BruceSki]

My bottle may have been out of the test date, or maybe NY just sucks and we have to pay too much for everything


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[Austin_landers]

$44 for 150 cu ft here in wichita ks .

 

[OCD Solutions]

You wouldn't think there would be that much fluctuation in the cost of a gas. Transportation fees?

I own my bottle outright too so I don't pay any leasing fees, just $67 for a cylinder exchange.

$52.50 for the gas
$9.95 Hazardous Material Charge
$0.92 Argon Demand Charge
$4.44 Taxes
$67.81 Grand Total

 

[aboarder]

You wouldn't think there would be that much fluctuation in the cost of a gas. Transportation fees?

I own my bottle outright too so I don't pay any leasing fees, just $67 for a cylinder exchange.

$52.50 for the gas
$9.95 Hazardous Material Charge
$0.92 Argon Demand Charge
$4.44 Taxes
$67.81 Grand Total

I'm paying $1/cf near Toronto. Tank exchange is around $1.40/cf. It was still much cheaper to make my own fuel tank and beach cart, but I wish I could find gas for prices like yours. These prices really drive up the cost of fabrication.

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Another addition to my truck tooling, I made a cv axle driver to push the cv's out of my front wheel bearing frames. It's a 3/8 6061 aluminum plate threaded in the center for the driver bolt. It doesn't take a lot of effort to push but more than I want to invest for time in the cold weather work. I haven't used it yet but only because the wheel studs are set in too far by comparison to the cv shaft end. So I schemed up a quick fix last night. I took a group of 4, 1/2-13 tower nuts, bored half depth of each one with a reground endmill that equaled about the right size of an M14x1.5 tap drill, then tapped them half depth to give me a dual threaded adapter for the wheel studs. I'll hopefully never need to use this because that cv shaft job sucked to do lol. But I'll at least be hopefully equipped to do it in the future if need be

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Made another shop press extension tonight. It turned out on the lathe quite well and reasonably quickly. This one is mild steel.

 

[OCD Solutions]

I ordered a sheet of 0.187” polycarbonate to finish the new doors on my Milling enclosure.

And I thought Aluminum was expensive!

 

[joeschuit]

I wanted to make a shorter surf hull, but may have gone too far. Will eventually turn into a diy "hydro trailer"

 

[Sanoman]

Ya think...

 

[Vumad]

Obviously this is far from exceptional but this is the first part I have ever CNCed so I am pretty pleased with the outcome. I didn’t hurt myself or break anything so I’m calling it a success.

It has taken a lot to get this far. Other than some texts with OCD and the guy who sold me the machine I’ve been pretty much completely on my own from learning fusion to 3D printing to restoring a cargo trailer shop to here we are now.

I assume my issue with this part was the backlash, but it could have been the movement on the machine. I’ll be looking into that tomorrow probably.

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[OCD Solutions]

I got the polycarbonate doors finished up on my mill and rewired the entire thing with quick disconnects and proper inductive prox switches.

I revamped the oil misting system as well so it’s working better than ever. I don’t mind putting the lube to it now that the enclosure contains everything.

I’m still on the fence about adding a proper flood coolant system but the machine is ready and fully set up for it now.

I am back to work today and probably won’t get to touch this thing again till next Christmas now.

 

[Big Kahuna]

all that work and will not touch it for a year?????????????????????? Kinda like building a badass ski and not riding it.