Recent content by Roses

I did have one visually different elbow fitting left over from a beer bottling machine and it worked - now if I only kew where to get more!

WRT the teflon tape, some of the holes in the blocks seem to be overbored and the plugs just sink in them. I could put five turns of tape on and it just didn't matter. Permatex ultra grey fixed it. Now it could be the plugs and fittings are out of spec, its not like I have a go/no go gauge...

This is a Rapidair home garage system. Mix of their fittings and other stuff from Amazon - but they are so visually identical I don't believe there's any appreciable difference, but neither have any identifying information on them, so its hard to tell which pieces were made here, and which ones...

I bought one of those air line systems with the blue nylon tubing and push to connect fittings. I'm having some issues and was wondering if someone else had the same and fixes. First of all, that blue tubing has a significant thermal expansion rate. If you cut everything to fit perfectly and...

just google up renting a professional 3D scanner and make sure you don't have a mouthful of coffee when you see the price per day. Same thing with a faro arm.

I have a small slab next to the shop. Don't know what the previous owner had in mind for it, but the cap and contraption fir there perfectly.

An old thread but last spring I made a device to take the cap off of my pickup and store it. Made it out of wood because it was cheap for prototyping. I might re-make it in metal sometime in the future. biggest drawback to the prototype is no ability to steer, so I've been looking at go-kart...

Fast and easy - a big formica covered particle board countertop from Home Depot or Lowes in the appropriate length. I first made bases out of 2X4s and 4X4s but later welded up bases from thin wall square tubing. It's damn near indestructible - the backsplash keeps stuff from getting behind the...