Recent content by kherseth

Thanks for the tips Dave. I did give it a go on a 1x1" patch underneath the bonnet, and to say it easy, I`m NOT doing that on a whole fender :) Think i`ll drive to the nearest city and look for a buff and some smoother sand papers. Should probably do the whole car while at it, will look awesome...

Hi again folks, been a while. They don`t want anyone using the lathe at work for hobby projects, so i`m not able to keep practising atm :( Anyways, bought myself a new car, 86-Toyota MR2 last weekend, and tought i`d use this weekend to shape up the paint job. Unfortunatly, i live in a very...

A small friendly note Gail, I think there are some spambots checking these pages once in a while, i got a spam related to machining a couple of days ago and this is the only part of the internet connecting me and machining. Just wanted to say that giving out others e-mails in a clear way like...

I HATE rusted/stuck/round bolts!! When changing engine in my trackday car, i also wanted to change the differential. Turns out those bolts had been rusting the last 20years so all 4(!!) snapped with very little force, really annoying having 4 stuck bolts, under a car with no means of lifting...

Definitely going to try this some time! Well written. For a cheap PSU, go to the local electronics recycling station and pick up a old computer PSU. If lucky you can get them for free. 12V is on all the yellow wires, 5V on the red wires, black is ground. I have one of these driving my...

I`m far from done still, got to borrow some other sanding tools, but I do agree with you shedboy, never again. I don`t think i will finish this the way i planned due to too much work. I think I`ll grind away the casting surface, give it a rough sanding and paint it with rim paint. Maybe on the...

Thanks Jim, I do actually have some emery cloth, just that my experience with regular sanding paper is that it took too long, but i`ll give it a go and see, maybe the emery cloth will grind better :) I did give it a go with a steel brush on the angle grinder, but that cheap tool was so...

Hi again folks. I`m in the process of giving one of my car engines a little cleanup and shining. The one I am working on is a 2.0L Opel engine. It used to sit in a car i bought for trackday purpose, and i decided to shine up the engine before selling it. I did just get started on grinding down...

Phosphoric acid is also said to be a good alternative. I use it for disinfecting the brewery, on the bottle it says to use 30-40mL for 5L water when converting rust, acid concentration is 85%. It is also the reason why coca cola works for rust removal :)

Not sure if renting is the right word, it`s a community shop where anyone with a membership may use the equipment for a small charge. It is a really small community (50 people at most) which came together and built a garage. Thanks on the kind comment on the nozzle, i`m really pleased with it...

At 5$/hour this is gonna get expensive, spent 2,5hours at the lathe today making a nozzle for a rocket engine. Got little curlies in my hair after the tool popped while parting the piece, i guess 6mm square tool blanks is nor ideal for parting:P Will have to look into getting my own lathe one...

Very nice! I just love anything remote controlled. I do have an old kyosho asphalt racer lying around, engine is working but need new gears. Also remember a really old model we had, with a manual 10-speed planetary gearbox with reverse. It was a nice looking Nissan terrano scale model. Great...

I did try with just one active roller, but got no grip against the grains. So added that o-ring just to give a little bit of pull on the other roller, works good. Did rethread the rollers, now one have a right hand, and the other one got a left hand thread on it, i think it works better than...

Found a solution for getting drive on both rollers, just put a O-ring around one of them, the friction is enough to pull grain trough :) Will mount a motor if i find it takes too long time cranking it by hand. Would have been cool with a steam engine :D Thanks for the help and tips guys...

I`ll have to see how i could get both rollers driven, i don`t have much equipment besides the lathe, so making my own gears is basically a no go. The cross threading is not very visible, but there is both left and right hand grooves in both rollers. Will make them deeper as they is no more than...