Labour Saving and General Guntering

patsy_mccabe

TomOnBoard wrote: »

Ive a fair few 12 inch lengths of 1/2 inch rebar from a bit of a shed project. Is there any way to gunter them into springiness so that I could use them as teeth on a landscape rake project I'm planning?

I've got a 6ft. length of 5 * 2 " RSJ that I'm going to use as the weighted horizontal member to which I will be cowboying a 3 point connection. I was hoping to use the rebar cutoffs as springy tines, but at the minute, they'd be more like rubber carrots...

Lots of guys making knives from rebar on youtube. Do you have a gas torch? Try heating a bit to red hot and quench in oil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcl3LFzBU7o

studdlymurphy

TomOnBoard wrote:

I've got a 6ft. length of 5 * 2 " RSJ that I'm going to use as the weighted horizontal member to which I will be cowboying a 3 point connection. I was hoping to use the rebar cutoffs as springy tines, but at the minute, they'd be more like rubber carrots...

Pick up some leaf springs from the scrap yard they will be a way better jib than rebar

emaherx

Fixing up an old cattle trailer. But couldn't get wheel nuts off. Redend the nuts with gas and hung out off them using a scaffolding pole as a breaker bar extension but they wouldn't budge.

Bit the bullet and bought a nut buster and I'm so impressed with the power of this thing.




Couldn't get replacement tyres for the old rims so had to invest in rims too.

Nekarsulm

Looks smart!
Has that axle got left-hand-thread nuts on one side, Emaherx?

emaherx

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Looks smart!
Has that axle got left-hand-thread nuts on one side, Emaherx?

Yes left-hand on the side shown. Nuts marked with an L. When I couldn't get them to budge I was starting to doubt it though!

patsy_mccabe

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. I have those same rims on an old trailer here. I had to cut off the nuts and studs. Managed to get new truck bolts to suit. I'll take a pic later.

patsy_mccabe

Here ya go. Looking at them now, not sure exactly what I did. Few years ago. I think the washers inside the outer nuts are domed. Bolts are fixed from the back.

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Here ya go. Looking at them now, not sure exactly what I did. Few years ago. I think the washers inside the outer nuts are domed. Bolts are fixed from the back.

Was going to be doing the exact same only for the nut buster. Original studs have a nut front and back but middle bit is keyed to stop stud spinning.

TomOnBoard

studdlymurphy wrote: »

Pick up some leaf springs from the scrap yard they will be a way better jib than rebar

Yeah, thats probably a lot more sensible and worth looking into. Thanks.

visatorro

Remember trying to loosen a wheel on an old trailer here before. Sure I hadn't a clue about left hand threads. Dunno how I didn't ring the studs. Gave up and rang tyre crowd and yer man just spun them off with the gun. Me after nearly breaking myself!!

tellmeabit

patsy_mccabe wrote:

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. .

Oh. That explains a lot. Bust them off and now can't get off hub

patsy_mccabe

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. I have those same rims on an old trailer here. I had to cut off the nuts and studs. Managed to get new truck bolts to suit. I'll take a pic later.

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

White Clover

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

Spot on. Had a left hand wheel off the trailer here 2 weeks ago and they were left hand threads.

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

They are on the left side of my trailer anyway, but I'm sure about half of second hand lorry axles on old trailers are on backwards or upside down.

9935452

emaherx wrote: »

They are on the left side of my trailer anyway, but I'm sure about half of second hand lorry axles on old trailers are on backwards or upside down.

I have an old sedan trailer at home with breaks, ie a lever at the front that you pull to work them, the previous owner said you tied a rope to the lever and pulled when you wanted breaks.

The axel was mounted backwards so the breaks would work when you pulled the lever.

I refurbished the trailer and made the breaks hydraulic so could then mount the axel correctly

TheFarrier

One of my clients asked me to make a forged gate for his garden. Here’s my progress so far, bolted together just for effect, intention is to hot rivet it together.
My blacksmithing skills don’t extend much beyond traditional Farriery, but metal and hammers are metal and hammers. Said I’d give it a go...

TheFarrier

Hopefully few less calves squeeze there way out through the crush now...

contrary_devil

TheFarrier wrote: »

One of my clients asked me to make a forged gate for his garden. Here’s my progress so far, bolted together just for effect, intention is to hot rivet it together.
My blacksmithing skills don’t extend much beyond traditional Farriery, but metal and hammers are metal and hammers. Said I’d give it a go...

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

TheFarrier

contrary_devil wrote: »

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

Yeah I’ll snap a few when I get home this evening.

blue5000

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

ganmo

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

a medieval heated toilet?

Say my name

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

You're smelting all those robbed phone lines using your new found knowledge of charcoal/biochar?

riemann

blue5000 wrote: »

Burning out a stump?

croot

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

Are you trying to smoke the last bit of water out of the well?

TheFarrier

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

No hassle buying bars. Local steel merchant has everything anyone could do want, and if he doesn’t have it he’ll get it.

In the photo, I’d guess your going casting something, probably aluminum???

TheFarrier

contrary_devil wrote: »

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

Coke fire
Gas fire (one of two)
Anvil (one of too many)

stock>

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

TomOnBoard

stock> wrote: »

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

An old farrier trick. The chain keeps the anvil weighted down so it wont float away...

TheFarrier

stock> wrote: »

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

Ha. I was cutting a length of the chain so I stuck one end in the vice, wrapped the other around the anvil and moved the anvil til it took strain. Cut away with the grinder then. Never had reason to remove the chain...

patsy_mccabe

Bought one of these HMT holecutters. Tungstun carbide tipped. Savage to cut drill holes. Pricey at €45 a go, but so far so good.
I have a magnetic drill with standard drill chuck and it fits this.


https://holemaker-technology.com/collections/versadrive/products/versadrive-carbidemax-tct-holesaws