whats everyone up to?? im gonna be catching ya all up if you carry on like this!
Well, if you must know, in the last week I've:
Made some (16!) exhaust manifold studs
Made some parts for a swirl pot
Sourced/fitted some radiator piping
Sourced/made some parts for a header tank
Fabrication takes forever................
This week I hope to finish the water circulation system
Cheers
Fred WB
tell me about it. ive spent my spare couple of hours tonight by machining some ferrules for me rod ends, got 4 drilled and one tapped! takes ages.
mind you i am making them for solid rod, and they are 45mm long. getting there tho.
what are you making the swirl pot and header out of?
and why make exhaust studs? they are about 33p each! 
exhaust manifold studs - I'm exaggerating a bit, they are just threaded bar cut off and the ends finished flat, and chamfered by hand on a
linisher. I don't have a lathe at home. Out here some things are not as easily available as you guys have it, plus I required a custom length.
Swirl pot is being made from some 3" and 1.5" ss dairy pipe, header tank from a 3" dairy pipe weld in T fitting
Cheers
Fred WB
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Originally posted by suparuss
whats everyone up to?? im gonna be catching ya all up if you carry on like this!
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Originally posted by Fred W B
exhaust manifold studs - I'm exaggerating a bit, they are just threaded bar cut off and the ends finished flat, and chamfered by hand on a linisher. I don't have a lathe at home. Out here some things are not as easily available as you guys have it, plus I required a custom length.
hey alan, good job its not so hot over here or id have an excuse to put air conditioning in the garage!
nice to see you are all still alive anyway.
Linisher dangerous -
Are we talking about the same thing? This is what I mean.
I find it invaluable for dedurring, squaring up cut ends of parts, and other finishing work. Haven't hurt myself yet, but than I always wear
gloves when using power implements of destruction and welding . Soft thin TIG glove on right hand, and heavier short welding glove on left hand.
Cheers
Fred WB
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this might not really apply to a small sander like that but gloves arent generally good idea. ive see a trainee get his fingers sucked into a big disc sander and chamfer about 7mm off his finger tips cos it grabbed the glove in the workshop i used to work in. that was about 35" diameter though and had a lot of momoentum.
True. It's bad using gloves around anything that can grab them. That means blades or anything spinning. A sander could do a fine job grinding down fingers if they get caught.
pardon the pun, but there is someone on the forum who has had first hand experience of losing part of a finger in a lathe. Not meaning to be gory, but
we all need reminding of the dangers every now and then (or is it just me with a crap memory?!)
Ned.
i can remember that ned, he was using emery cloth to do some finishing on a spinning part in the lathe but had the cloth wrapped around his fingers to
get a better grip presumably. hence forth the emery snagged and he couldnt let go in time.
Agreed, you have to be carefull not to catch your glove, but the same could apply to a finger.
Gloves are worn to protect you from the sharp edges on the parts you are handling / deburring, and from the heat of the part. You will find gloves are
compulsary in any industrial shop
And if you happen to get too close to the belt or disc while handling a small part, so that your finger tips touch - gloves help a lot!
Cheers
Fred WB
Since leather is stronger then flesh, if a glove is stuck into a band saw blade by accident, it can pull the entire finger/glove into the blade. If it's a bare finger you might get a nasty cut, if it's in a glove, the entire figure could be lost.
If my glove touches the blade and I hear it I pull back. If my finger touches the blade it cuts me and it's too late to pull back. I was a fettler for several years and everyone wore gloves as a matter of course as they protect from burns, abrasions and splinters. Everything you do to metal either makes it sharp so it cuts you or hot so it burns you. Keep the gloves on.
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Originally posted by Peteff
If my glove touches the blade and I hear it I pull back.
me too, except the grinder of course 
And a decent set of goggles are useful(says he just out of the eye casualty unit- :cool
By the way Russ, are you puttin a different injection system on the audi engine or modify the existing one?
Nice to see someone using that engine- weighs a bit tho doesnt it!
chris
Surely if your hands (gloved or not) are so close to the equipement you risk being injured then you are using it wrongly.
If pressure is needed close to a blade or rotating disc then a wooden stick should be used to apply it. The stick is sacraficial, your hands are
not!
Go into any woodworking shop and this is enforced. It is only in metalworking shops that people seem more negligent of the dangers.
Please keep it safe and don't cut corners (or limbs)!
Terry
spyderman- damn right! should always use a push stick sepecially with saws and the like, ican remember ever using one on the big sander but it does
demand concentration for some things.
8smokingbarrels- yep, i originally changed it to megasquirt when it was still in the car and worked pretty well, but i kinda bodged it a bit and had a
few vacuum leaks and never got a proper reading from the o2 sensor so just tuned it by ear, but this time ive done it properly and also got rid of the
original throttle body in favor of a 5 individual motor bike throttle bodies! yum yum.
Well, well, all this talk about wearing gloves has me wondering about the topic of the thread.
It's one hundred and f-ing degrees here and the day job has become the night job and the day job all rolled into one... But I'm seeing the
light at the end of the tunnel and will soon be back in the car building business. yeeehaw!
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anyone wants to see it, you can download a pre-release version Here. It's a Blog
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opinions about it.