What You Need from What You Have

[rake60]

These days I'm the manager of a CNC secondary machining department.
I also do the purchasing for plant maintenance.

The maintenance guys come to me with an obsolete low pressure gauge.
0 to 15 ounces per square inch with a front flange mount.
I cant find those gauges anywhere on the internet.
I can find gauges with no front mount flanges.

Time to get back to my roots.
"MAKE IT WORK"

I started with 1-1/2" ID fender washers.
Machined them out to .060" under the OD size of the gauges I did find.

I had laid out the bolt circle the old fashioned way using my calipers
as dividers and the simple formula:

A*sin(180/B)
Where A= bolt circle diameter
B= number of holes

Nothing critical here, so I wasn't all that concerned about how they lined up.
I was a little surprised when I stacked them up together.

Maybe the old ways still work after all!

After that I finish machined each flange to have a very snug fit to the OD of each
individual pressure gauge.

Well, they work for the need at hand.

Sure I love programing CNC machines, training new operators and running
my department, but there's still something very gratifying to know,
"I can still make that work."

Rick

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Rake60--That is one of the true great feelings in life. Knowing "I can make that work". Even if you've never seen IT before, even if you have little experience with IT, being able to look back over a lifetime of "making things work" and applying a lifetime of accumulated knowledge to "make it work today" is really, really good!!--Brian

 

[kuhncw]

Very nice fix.

Chuck

 

[ShopShoe]

Rake60,

Glad to see your name here again. Brian Rupnow said it all about making it work!

I've done a lot of those projects myself and always like to see what others are up to one thing at a time: It all gets filed in my brain somewhere and will come up again as part of something else.

Thanks for posting.

ShopShoe