Thread: Slideway grinders go for a song

Don't worry I am licensed.. Having trouble with the relay that starts it holding in upon startup... The joys of having a phase converter means contactors are very temperamental if wired up to the wrong phases... I think the hydraulic drive motor is 240/415 capable, of course the ID plate has been painted over, but there are six wires coming out of the motor and some instructions on the cover plate..

Anyways, due to lack of room in the shed since it has arrived it has accelerated expansion plans, well that and the arrival of a new truck sometime later this month.. So today was spent firstly removing most of my machine tools from the shed and relocating them to another section... No catastrophes were had moving a horizontal borer, mill, lathe and slotter plus a couple of benches/cupboards....

Have to rip out some old thin concrete that I poured for my first lathe many years ago..

Put the post hole digger on and used that to dig through it to help bust it up..

A dingo would be quite handy right about now..

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Originally Posted by .RC.

A dingo would be quite handy right about now..

A wombat or platypus, might be better at digging holes.

Originally Posted by .RC.

Don't worry I am licensed.. Having trouble with the relay that starts it holding in upon startup... The joys of having a phase converter means contactors are very temperamental if wired up to the wrong phases... I think the hydraulic drive motor is 240/415 capable, of course the ID plate has been painted over, but there are six wires coming out of the motor and some instructions on the cover plate..

Anyways, due to lack of room in the shed since it has arrived it has accelerated expansion plans, well that and the arrival of a new truck sometime later this month.. So today was spent firstly removing most of my machine tools from the shed and relocating them to another section... No catastrophes were had moving a horizontal borer, mill, lathe and slotter plus a couple of benches/cupboards....

Have to rip out some old thin concrete that I poured for my first lathe many years ago..

Put the post hole digger on and used that to dig through it to help bust it up..

A dingo would be quite handy right about now..

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Hi RC,

Is that a diamond tipped post hole auger or are you just using the weight of the machine to punch through?

Simon

Just the weight of the machine, it is a rock auger though...

I am ready for some illegal immigrants now to finish digging the pit out by hand... The soil where this shed is has about 75mm of brown topsoil, then goes straight to hard cluggy solid clay, then under that decomposed granite.. it is not nice digging but I will get there... Will have to drive in a heap more steel posts to support the boards and then reinforce those steel posts with timber... I built a retaining wall once and when the concrete truck poured the concrete in I did not have enough steel posts and what was supposed to be 100mm thick turned out to be 100mm at the bottom and 200mm at the top... Concrete is heavy stuff...

The foundation will be 600mm thick as per what the manual says and 150mm bigger then the machine outline, although I have gone 200mm bigger..


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Well the illegal immigrants said they do not do manual labor when the government will pay them to sit around doing nothing, so luckily I own a Ruston Bucyrus RB1 and got it into the shed to finish it off.. The operators manual turned up in the mail today, so I will scan that in tonight if anyone wants to download it..
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Looks like the seller finally got a bid on this machine

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252021538404

Originally Posted by .RC.

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I'd cut timbers too length, and butt those up against the concrete cut to the left of photo, and plenty of them, 600 centres wouldn't be too far. Its going to take a bit to stop that form work from springing.

Regards Phil.

P.S The U.K client expressed regret at not buying Marks 6 footer. I just sent him that lead to the one in the U.K

That's no good to anyone here Phil - the ad says "may not post to Australia"

Michael

Originally Posted by Michael G

That's no good to anyone here Phil - the ad says "may not post to Australia"

I'll jump on a plane and go get it for you Michael. Seems every one has to have a slideway grinder now days.

Phil.

Probably a bit heavy for carry on luggage though Phil. Hell of an overweight surcharge.

Ken

Operators manual https://www.dropbox.com/s/0z84d2xixp...r%20manual.pdf

The above link is dead...

A better version of the manual.. and smaller to boot, here -->>

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kis7qzkf4v...r%20manual.pdf

I'm just in at work shuffling some paper around. I came across the shipping docket the truck driver gave me when he picked up the box. It lists the vessel name. The Dimitrios C, out of Malta.

So I tap that into Google.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/det...sel:DIMITRIS_C

That 40 foot container has just made it across the Equator. He's at anchor in the Port of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Just between Liberia and Ghana in Africa.

Regards Phil.

That ship has made pretty good time to get there so quick... Bit quicker then my progress...


Got the reinforcing done, pretty much ready for the cement now... Just put in the black plastic sheeting and await the cement truck... Not sure whether to get 25mpa or 32mpa... I have managed to borrow a vibrator to settle the concrete when I pour it, looked at renting one but they wanted $90 for the day... Seemed a bit steep to me.. I phoned some people and I managed to borrow one this lovely lady had..

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Originally Posted by Machtool

I came across the shipping docket the truck driver gave me when he picked up the box. It lists the vessel name. The Dimitrios C, out of Malta.

That 40 foot container has just made it across the Equator. He's at anchor in the Port of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Just between Liberia and Ghana in Africa.

You hope... I had something arriving here by container and was tracking it too. I wondered why the ship got to Singapore and then headed up to Japan. Turns out that they trans-ship some of these containers so the service that I thought was direct to Adelaide stopped in Singapore, was transferred to another ship going to Melbourne and then came the last leg by truck.

Michael