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15 Feb ’12
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Well made some design changes, newsettler made a good point that the side pieces should be welded to the base and the sides of the square tubing to counteract upwards lift.
So we cut down some more plate as a base.
the plasma cutter works slick
clamped together the base squares
and welded them together
one side done
flipped it over, welded the other side and centered it on the base
welded the two together
flipped it on it's side and welded the ends
welded on the top plate
should hold
Have to fab up the side pieces today
15 Feb ’12
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So I started messing with the jack to check out my heights to see what I want my top anvil to be at
Still not sure if I want a fixed top anvil or adjustable one but I picked up some cat 8 bolts just to be safe, I figured 22 inches will give me a good height whichever way I decide.
Newsettler was working so I said screw it, I'm welding this puppy up!
Holy crap that is horrible
So newsettler stopped back and showed me where I really screwed up, seems tack welding the corners first is ideal or else you get some heat bending.
Thank goodness I bought plenty of stock
So I tacked up a couple more pieces
Much better
So I have enough stock to cut 4 more pieces of height and should leave me enough for the anvils, going to try and weld up the other side today, if I screw that up then back to a single side arm design we go.
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Gravel Road15 Feb ’12
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So I cut up the rest of the square stock
decided to clean up the mess I made and practice some
little bit better
not as bad as before, still have some work to do
Did get a chance to test the variable speed controller from harbor freight my wife picked up to see if my old table saw would work for a variable speed belt sander project this summer.
15 Feb ’12
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got some more practice yesterday, getting better, just need to be more consistent
15 Feb ’12
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So I realized we had made a mistake, we had bought 1/4 inch plate for the base and used the 3/16ths from the table top instead
so I grinded through the welds
and cleaned up the base pipes
I marked up my width on the 1/4 inch
And offset my guide by an inch for the plasma cutter
only took a couple minutes and I cleaned up the edges
cleaned up the side arms, we decided to go with a single arm design
Mocked it up with some welding squares and spot welded
flipped it on it's side and completed the weld
now to do the other side
Drilled out some holes for a die holder, not sure if this is the route I still want to go with
Starting to look like something, need to weld the anvils in place yet
15 Feb ’12
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So I was setting up to work on it some more on thursday
Hmm, something doesn't look quite right
well, back to the drawing board
15 Feb ’12
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some great videos on Tom Joyce, that bastimal fountain is sweet
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Hessian15 Feb ’12
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time to start making some dies
So I picked up my piece of metal, crazy that this weighs over 100 pounds
I needed to break it down some so I threw it in the bandsaw
and cut it down again
and again
those 4 inch blocks are 8 pounds each
I am going to mill two different prototypes and test them, this is not to scale
one that can be retained by bolts on the left, or one that can be retained by being bolted down into the top or the face of the anvil
Need to calculate my feeds and speeds and I'm going to go and try to knock some out.
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