Panzers: I break rocks thread

[[486]]

that big though... Will your whore bore do single point threading?

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

that big though... Will your whore bore do single point threading?

Not sure. I really don’t think so she is pretty old to be doing that fancy stuff.

I looked up the torque specs for a 1 1/2 unf grade 8 bolt. It’s like 2500-3000 ft lbs.

 

[1oddtech]

The hot topic was what do you tie your fall protection to on a loader, dozer, truck.
Nobody had a good answer.

I put my service truck crane above me and tied off to that when needed when I had no other location. I've also had to take a yearly safety course at a local flour mill when ever I was outside working on a old 5400 loader tractor.

 

[bdkw1]

In a size that bit it's probably 10x cheaper to buy a tap.

Taps are for peasants, thread mill FTW!.

 

[[486]]

Not sure. I really don’t think so she is pretty old to be doing that fancy stuff.

much rather single point threads than tap them, if that plate is something hard

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Taps are for peasants, thread mill FTW!.

Lol that block probably weighs in at 1000-1500#. It would be a hbm or radial drill job.

Just checked out the manual. Those bolts need to be torqued to 2700 foot lbs. My dam j gun will not fit in there. Off to see if I can find a cheap hydraulic torque wrench.

 

[[486]]

Lol that block probably weighs in at 1000-1500#. It would be a hbm or radial drill job.

Just checked out the manual. Those bolts need to be torqued to 2700 foot lbs. My dam j gun will not fit in there. Off to see if I can find a cheap hydraulic torque wrench.

you weigh what? toss some bricks into a backpack
270lbs at the end of a 10' pipe

 

[subybaja]

"The mine is the world's largest producer of zinc and has the world's largest zinc reserves.[1][2] Red Dog accounts for 10% of the world's zinc production.[3] Red Dog accounted for 55% of the mineral value produced in Alaska in 2008."

"According to 2001 reports, the ore from the mine is transported by ore trucks that weigh 100 tons (net 72-ton payload) that carry 1.1 million dry tons of lead-zinc concentrate annually on the 52 mi (84 km) Red Dog Mine Haul Road to the state-owned, Teck-operated DeLong Mountain Port Facility on the Chuckchi Sea.[32][14] By 2001, the trucks were dispatched approximately every 15 minutes, twenty-four hours a day all year long."



Thats awesome.

Red Dog zinc output not slowed by COVID

Teck Resources Ltd. April 20 reported increased zinc and lead production at Red Dog, despite the adjustments and precautions taken to protect the health of the workforce and residents in nearby Northwest Alaska communities during the COVID-19 outbreak. Red Dog produced 128,400 metric tons (283.1...

www.miningnewsnorth.com

 

[CarterKraft]

Lol that block probably weighs in at 1000-1500#. It would be a hbm or radial drill job.

Just checked out the manual. Those bolts need to be torqued to 2700 foot lbs. My dam j gun will not fit in there. Off to see if I can find a cheap hydraulic torque wrench.

Go on big boy, get "ringing" with that hammer wrench 😂

 

[bdkw1]

Lol that block probably weighs in at 1000-1500#. It would be a hbm or radial drill job.

Just checked out the manual. Those bolts need to be torqued to 2700 foot lbs. My dam j gun will not fit in there. Off to see if I can find a cheap hydraulic torque wrench.

1500# is well within the range of mills big enough to fit that. I'd have to pull a couple vices, but that would go on mine easy peasy.

 

[IUsedtoBendCars]

I did my MSHA refresher today also. What a waste of time. Probably sux even worse for you knowing you're the one paying everybody to be there.

 

[AK_F250]

"The mine is the world's largest producer of zinc and has the world's largest zinc reserves.[1][2] Red Dog accounts for 10% of the world's zinc production.[3] Red Dog accounted for 55% of the mineral value produced in Alaska in 2008."

"According to 2001 reports, the ore from the mine is transported by ore trucks that weigh 100 tons (net 72-ton payload) that carry 1.1 million dry tons of lead-zinc concentrate annually on the 52 mi (84 km) Red Dog Mine Haul Road to the state-owned, Teck-operated DeLong Mountain Port Facility on the Chuckchi Sea.[32][14] By 2001, the trucks were dispatched approximately every 15 minutes, twenty-four hours a day all year long."



Thats awesome.

They had some issues in December and the mill was shut down for about 54 hours total between them. They crunched the numbers and it came out to $9000 a minute in lost gross profit when they weren’t producing.

 

[budget76]

They had some issues in December and the mill was shut down for about 54 hours total between them. They crunched the numbers and it came out to $9000 a minute in lost gross profit when they weren’t producing.

$29,160,000

oof

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Stopped by the crane guys and set up a time to have it serviced and inspected. Talked to the engineer and he ran the numbers on those surplus trolley way beams. I could put a 7.5 ton crane on those runways.

I think I’m gonna go pick those beams up and add it to my list of shit I should do someday.

He has a nifty cheater program that designs the crane for him after he inputs the initial design specs. So maybe if I can get the trolley-ways up this year maybe I can splurge and buy another crane for that other bay.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Today was one of those days. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong today. Ordered a set of half round u joints for a loader driveshaft and they show up full rounds.

Next I get a call from the block plant saying they are gonna do a trial for 30-60days of a different companies sand. They have been getting low breaks since they switched to my materials. About 3 months ago they stopped using my buckshot. It didn’t really help. Now they are gonna use different buckshot and sand.

Right before we started supplying this new plant the concrete companies changed the concrete to be more eco friendly. I’m thinking this is why they are getting low breaks. I’m hoping this will show the aggregates are not the problem and it’s in the Portland.

If the breaks come back low we will work on a new mix design to help fix this. I have no idea what’s going on. I keep the sand size in their impossible to keep specs. I checked the 200 minus in the sand and it’s less than 1%. The 28 day breaks are comming in at 8000-9500 psi. They want them to be 8500 minimum but would like 10-11,000 psi at 28 days better.

What a fucking kick to the stomach. Now to wait 30-60 days for them to trial this to see if there is an improvement or not. Please baby Jesus let the breaks stay low!!

Then after all that I spent big bucks on a super screw splice to put in the screen plant boys installed it and even with the belt fully tensioned it was still way too loose. Fucking pull it back out and what would you know. They cut the sucker 1’ too long . They had the right dimension written on the belt but cut it long.

Today cannot end fast enough. Thankfully we have boxing tonight. It will give me a 2 hour reprieve of thinking about this shit.

 

[[486]]

Right before we started supplying this new plant the concrete companies changed the concrete to be more eco friendly. I’m thinking this is why they are getting low breaks. I’m hoping this will show the aggregates are not the problem and it’s in the Portland.

That shit where they toss ground limestone into the cement after it's done in the kiln?
"We've watered down the product for you, it's green, look at us!"

 

[aczlan]

Then after all that I spent big bucks on a super screw splice to put in the screen plant boys installed it and even with the belt fully tensioned it was still way too loose. Fucking pull it back out and what would you know. They cut the sucker 1’ too long . They had the right dimension written on the belt but cut it long

Better a foot long than a foot short I suppose...

That shit where they toss ground limestone into the cement after it's done in the kiln?
"We've watered down the product for you, it's green, look at us!"

Aaron Z

 

[1oddtech]

Remember to breath and take care of it tomorrow.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

That shit where they toss ground limestone into the cement after it's done in the kiln?
"We've watered down the product for you, it's green, look at us!"

This is what they do. There was a panic because it then changed the color of the concrete. The block plant was scrambling to get it to match the old stuff. I’m getting really sick of this co2 is a pollutant bs. The more co2 there is the better the plant life thrives. The better the plant life the more o2 they make. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

No instead we are doing this shit to feel good without any thought to the repercussions down the line.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Remember to breath and take care of it tomorrow.

I feel much better after class tonight. I think tonight’s lesson was done because of me. “We need to learn how to get in and clinch because people were just backing up during sparring on fridays” There was only 6 guys there Friday . I was the one backing up and eating punches instead of shooting forward and clinching.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Inspite of today’s stupidity I did managed to make a line boring extension. This is a copy of the one CEE made on his YouTube channel.

Turn down some random stock. I teamed it to 1.5” the same diameter as my bar.

Split it on the bandsaw.

Fly cut the faces straight.

Beveled the edge that folds and drilled ant tapped for the hold down bolt. Drilled the holes for the square broach.

Then all the shit went down and I stopped taking pictures.

broached the square hole, modified a 190series master link with longer legs and our grub screws in to hold the bit.

I tossed it on the bar and cut the bore I needed to fix. Man this makes to bar work so much better. No chattering.

Tomorrow I’ll get it welded up and cut down so I can get this loader done and out of the garage.

 

[[486]]

I used to have some leftover devlieg microbore stuff, but something you can do instead to get similar effect is to tap that 1/2" square hole for something like 9/16"-18 threads, then use a setscrew in the back end to advance the tool by known amounts without fucking around with a tool setting micrometer.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Today I’m gonna get this bore fixed no matter what. Been tore apart for way too long.

I bored the hole round before welding.

Welding it back up. It takes like 30 mins for the welder to make one pass. I’ll put 2 maybe 3 passes on to bulid it up high enough to machine out.

Welds look sexy when they are done by a machine.

One pass with the welder to bore you to death



Welder settings if anyone cares.

3 on the feeder

22volts

Using 0.030 lincoln super arc l56 wire.

And a 1.1 on the weld rotation whatever that means

I weld by braille so those setting could be not “correct”. It’s laying a really decent bead getting good penetration into the parent material and sounds beautiful.

 

[brantb]

Stopped by the crane guys and set up a time to have it serviced and inspected. Talked to the engineer and he ran the numbers on those surplus trolley way beams. I could put a 7.5 ton crane on those runways.

I think I’m gonna go pick those beams up and add it to my list of shit I should do someday.

He has a nifty cheater program that designs the crane for him after he inputs the initial design specs. So maybe if I can get the trolley-ways up this year maybe I can splurge and buy another crane for that other bay.

At least you will save $40,000 by getting beams from the scrap yard

 

[87manche]

And a 1.1 on the weld rotation whatever that means

220, 221, whatever it takes.

 

[arse_sidewards]

Today I’m gonna get this fixed no matter what.

That tends to be an expensive attitude.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

That tends to be an expensive attitude.

Lol it’s a $80,000 loader. It would like to be able to put it back into service .

 

[87manche]

for serious though, that welding box has paid for itself right?

 

[Sceep]

What is a "half round u-joint"?

 

[brantb]

Is the bore welding setup and others that you have shown common equipment in your industry/area? I know in the winter you are busying fixing your stuff but are you also taking on jobs of fixing other people's broken stuff. It looks like you have a lot of machining equipment and the knowledge to fix just about every piece of equipment you have. Plus in the last yearish you have added a giant storage shop and another work shop.