Recent content by rslaback

Yushin

It is indeed a Japanese robot. In their power spec is the 200 a single hot to ground/neutral or 2 hots 180 degrees out of phase?

I noticed this voltage spec on a piece of automation equipment tonight. Am I correct in assuming that since we are looking at 200 and not 220/240 that this equipment is expected to be wired in using a wild leg of a 240V 3phase?

I've always hated how tall most of the mtx shifters are in cars from the 2000s. It feels super high to me almost like you're driving a truck. Right after I bought my 2008 Mazda 3 I cut out 2 inches of shifter shaft and welded it back together. This week it was finally time to be brave enough to...

Yes. The Centura carbs use a plastic emulsion tube. That was removed from the body, all parts went into a heated ultrasonic cleaner for the better part of a day before being removed, the passages chased with a 61 to 80 drill set and blown out before reassembly. The jet is built into the...

This uses a Tecumseh Centura engine. They don't have a choke. They rely on the operator to pulse the primer bulb enough times to semi flood it and use that as a choke.

Well, I cleaned the carburetor as a long shot. Same behavior.

It's got an auto choke but it will give me a backfire pop every now and then at shut off so i don't think it's starving.

I know a bit more about pressure washers than the average chap but this one is a new one on me. I picked up this Karcher washer cheap. I was told that it wouldn't build pressure. The gun had obviously froze with water in it and cracked the tube so I changed that out with a spare I have on...

It became obvious that I was going to need to machine my own and these are finally done. They are made from 3/8 angle with a flycut texture to them. After machining they were case hardened for 10+ hours in Cherry Red compound so hopefully they can handle at least a moderate amount of abuse...

I did not make new ones. I have read that the cook time increases the depth of the case. From that I am assuming that worst case I just waste some more company time and money but the jaws remain at least as hardened as they are right now. Is there something that you think could go wrong that...

I know that it is at least somewhat hardened which makes me question the temp read out of the first oven. But I also figure that giving it another go isn't going to hurt anything.

I think just age. We don't normally heat that high so it hadn't been tested. I did get the newer one in a different building up to 1650 tonight though so I should be good. The way the parts sat in there they were only about 1/4" from the top so I had it packed full. I do think on this next...

They are black and slightly mottled. A file skates over them but a center punch does leave a slight impression.

Well, I gave this a shot today and it bombed. Turns out the oven wasn't able to get above 1250 today so it was all a waste. I will have to try again on the newer oven instead of the antique one that I was using. Any idea what the yellow crusty foam is from that spewed out today while it was...