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Sure is! Looks like a 9 or 11 bladed shutter? I love my macro lens. It is a great tool. I think it's nine Might buy an adapter with correction lens, I love those old lenses. My dream would be a 58/1.2 - but they are EXPENSIVE. Should have bought one years ago, but even then I thought they were expensive... But now - christ... Would plumbers bending kit work any better ? Nice lathe work as well !! Sure would. They can be had for as little as 35€. But where's the fun in that...
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I found an old Minolta Rokkor 55mm / 1:1.7. With adapter to my modern Minolta. It's lost it's infinite focus, but makes for a nice macro lens The bokeh is just lovely!
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No success without dieseweaseling!
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Danke! Next up: not so schön... I had a bag of sand flown in from India... With which i stuffed a piece of steel pipe which I then welded shut. Heated it up a bit - didn't heat it up. Tried it gentle, tried it with force. But still: the result was always the same: Catastrophic failure. And so this lead to a lot of this: Cheers, Jan
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Direct current that runs at 50 to 60 hertz.....go figure That's non alternating static AC, you know
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Taadaa!
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Mar 28, 2016 19:57:59 GMT
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Started on the second adapter. And found out I had to re-profile my wee little boring bar (8x8mm ) to be able to go for the whole 65mm. ^last time I had already bored it out enough the first time to clear it. This time it was "all at once". I'll leave the rest for another day - it's very relaxing to do this after a working day of panel beating Cheers, Jan
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Mar 27, 2016 18:16:25 GMT
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My guess is some sort of clever lever thingy to amplify hydraulic pressure for making even betterer pressings
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Mar 27, 2016 13:25:29 GMT
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Yeah, this solid smoke lasts a lot longer, though
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Mar 27, 2016 10:50:19 GMT
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Thanks! I would only need a 90° plate with a slide on the lathe to do somewhat precise milling... Or the good old fashioned file will do just fine. Anyway. Figured I try to see how the arrangement of heat exchangers will work out. This is - pretty much excellent! Enough room for all three with a big air gap between them and the oil cooler duct has only a minor overlap with the chargecooler-cooler. Unfortunately I broke the CC-C by trying to break off a bracket. No major bummer, I would have probably looked for a better one anyway. It's pretty corroded. And then I drove the car out, under it's own power. And I couldnt resist making a little tyre smoke Next up was an oil change on the Taxi. Cheers, Jan
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Mar 27, 2016 10:49:56 GMT
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Time for an oil change. It's difficult though without a lift to remove the plug without having hot oil spill either on the floor or on your arm. Hmm. That steel sump guard is not service friendly. But I sort of knew this... And I realised that I've allready reached the service interval of the air filter... I just replaced that last year! And then BBQ & beer was called in, enough work for that day... Cheers, Jan
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Mar 27, 2016 10:01:02 GMT
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Mar 26, 2016 13:11:48 GMT
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Are you not tempted to drill some holes in the reservoir to make it lighter? What an awesome car!! And very nice work! Insta-bookmarked!
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Got the message Haha! The most impressive machine I ever saw was the press Audi uses in Neckarsulm. What a monster! And next to it stacked dies as tall as a man, 4 storys heigh. The whole foundation is floating & dampened to cope with the force of the press - when it presses the ground is moving. Or maybe it's the planet that is slightly pushed down, who knows...
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Mar 25, 2016 15:20:08 GMT
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So with Jesus Death Memorial Day I thought it would be more clever to do work inside. And so I finished my bypass hose thingy. I marked the piece and took it out of the chuck. and machined another piece of aluminum, inside and outside. Then I parted it off... ...and attacked it with the hack saw. Multiple times. I deburred the pieces and put them in the chuck. To - clamp down the Bypass Adapter to machine the other side. This worked quite well, but it took some time to true up the work piece. The chuck is pretty worn. But I got there in the end. It was hard to machine with the little room I got between the work piece and the tail stock. But somehow it all worked out. I reduced it to just the required diameter and parted it off. Had to bore the last 1.5mm, I had not bored it out all the way needed. No problem, but it was tricky to find just the right amount of depth of cut to not throw it out. My collets didn't provide a huge amount of clamping. But, it sort of went well, little chamfere and done. And - it's a very snug fit to the hoses it should fit later on. Nice and tight. If this leaks, I don't know what will not Now I need to find a way to machine a flat to the center section and then it'll be fitted with one of these: I'm pleased the way it came out, even if it's not quite as symetrical as I wanted it to be. On the second side I was more concentrated on not having it fly into my face than making it symetrical. But honestly; who cares. It will be almost completely hidden later on. It doesn't matter. It will work, that's all it needs to do. and I learned a lot about working on the lathe! So - that's one done, one to do. and for the next I will take a longer piece of round bar to start with So all in all - all good. I'm happy with that! Cheers, Jan
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Mar 24, 2016 18:14:25 GMT
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Yes, I can see that Thanks! I get payed by the hour, no time to play around (sadly). Maybe I'll do that when I have some free time, press is not used much anyway It's certainly very, very intresting work! There is no success without failure.
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Mar 24, 2016 17:37:41 GMT
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Well, it almost certainly beats my first attempt a pressing a panel... It's OK, it'll never be seen again. Was the only fast way to make this cup which later is home for a tail pipe buffer. 666kb.com/i/d7hzh7tmcppbci7or.jpg - thanks to your inspiration, I thought I'd try. Well, can't say I didn't try... And it showed me just HOW much work it is to make a pressed panel and have the material "flow" just right. So - wow!! I'm very, very I'm-pressed! Keep up what you'r doing, you are incredibly good at it! Cheers, Jan
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Mar 23, 2016 21:48:21 GMT
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Noticed this on tuesday morning... Have now put 55.000km on it since I got it.
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