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LXCam

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I've followed a few cool tags on Instagram for inspiration (although the platform has been completely destroyed by Reels): #dieselpunk #artdeco #machineage #streamline etc
I’ve got two 12ga steel cabinets with viewing panes that are just prime for a steampunk transformation. One of these days I’ll geek out on them.
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colindoyle

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Do those ones have a swivel lock?

I found these urethane casters on eBay a while ago. The pedal not only locks the wheel brake, but it engages a cogged ring with a locking plate, preventing rotation so the table can't squirm around much at all. I tried to take some photos but they ****:

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Do those ones have a swivel lock?

I found these urethane casters on eBay a while ago. The pedal not only locks the wheel brake, but it engages a cogged ring with a locking plate, preventing rotation so the table can't squirm around much at all. I tried to take some photos but they ****:

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Why is a bench safety wired? 🤣🤣 I hate doing that ****!
 
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NUTTSGT

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@NUTTSGT Eric very nice work but you lost a couple points cause your lifters aren’t hydraulic. :lol_hitti

Ron
But but but the lifters in the Mustang are hydraulic roller. Does that count ?


Seriously though, I wanted something basic and I could do quick and easy. Not to mention, I wanted to get this thing done. There's always the future project where I could change it.
 

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I bought this old Kewanee elevator so we could use a Bobcat to load our spent agricultural waste* into semi trailers. I think it's about 75 years old, and it was filled with brittle cast iron drive sprockets, which were attached to rusty shafts with roll pins. I ended up making a couple new shafts that would accept standard keyed sprockets, and replaced the sprockets with steel. That one extremely shark-toothed sprocket on the PTO input had an even number of teeth, so I replaced it with an odd number in order to allow the 2050 double-link chain to engage every tooth, hopefully doubling the lifespan of the part.

*The business is a mushroom farm, and the agricultural waste in question is comprised of ground up straw and other cellulose material, inoculated with spawn. It approximates the composition of a tree trunk, and supports the growth of oyster mushrooms. Gardeners take it away and use it as mulch when we're done harvesting our crop.


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I've gotta build a welding positioner one of these years.
 

larry4406

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I bought this old Kewanee elevator so we could use a Bobcat to load our spent agricultural waste* into semi trailers. I think it's about 75 years old, and it was filled with brittle cast iron drive sprockets, which were attached to rusty shafts with roll pins. I ended up making a couple new shafts that would accept standard keyed sprockets, and replaced the sprockets with steel. That one extremely shark-toothed sprocket on the PTO input had an even number of teeth, so I replaced it with an odd number in order to allow the 2050 double-link chain to engage every tooth, hopefully doubling the lifespan of the part.

*The business is a mushroom farm, and the agricultural waste in question is comprised of ground up straw and other cellulose material, inoculated with spawn. It approximates the composition of a tree trunk, and supports the growth of oyster mushrooms. Gardeners take it away and use it as mulch when we're done harvesting our crop.


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I've gotta build a welding positioner one of these years.
Nice work!

Very clever on introducing one odd tooth sprocket to force the chain to mate different each time with other sprockets! I’ve never heard this before but is brilliant!
 

colindoyle

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To clarify: the 2050 chain skips a tooth on the 50-pitch sprocket, so the odd tooth count only ensures that that particular sprocket receives wear between every tooth, rather than having a 12 tooth sprocket with the same six wear points on every revolution.

You can see in the photo of the old, worn even-tooth-count sprocket, it never received any chain wear on half of its teeth.
 
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