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Got a random idea yesterday & spliced 2 Yeti stickers into a label for my pneumatic potato gun

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Sometimes making stupid shit out of free stuff is entertaining, and this made me laugh :laughing:


EDIT: for context, that ↑ is this ↓

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Another side project while cutting up rod... Made this rack out of some twisted up old channel iron and scrap rods I had to hold the my cut rods, otherwise it was gonna be a clusterfawk keeping shit organized. :laughing:

I "leveled" the twisted channel iron as an average between one end and the other, and then welded the angle iron sawhorse "feet" on actually level. So it's twisted, but at least it doesn't rock side to side in use. :grinpimp:

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ExWrench said:
Got a random idea yesterday & spliced 2 Yeti stickers into a label for my pneumatic potato gun

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Sometimes making stupid shit out of free stuff is entertaining, and this made me laugh :laughing:


EDIT: for context, that ↑ is this ↓

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What's the valve from?


billybob_81067 said:
Another side project while cutting up rod... Made this rack out of some twisted up old channel iron and scrap rods I had to hold the my cut rods, otherwise it was gonna be a clusterfawk keeping shit organized. :laughing:

I "leveled" the twisted channel iron as an average between one end and the other, and then welded the angle iron sawhorse "feet" on actually level. So it's twisted, but at least it doesn't rock side to side in use. :grinpimp:

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What's the cut up rod for?
 
bgaidan said:
What's the valve from?
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Looks like a bazooka style bead blaster to me. They're pretty cheap on e-bay. I actually got one to build into an air cannon, but like it as a bead blaster more than my bead cheetah, so I've been using it as that. The barrel is screwed on with normal pipe threads, so it'd be stupid simple to swap it out for an air cannon barrel.

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What's the cut up rod for?
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dnsfailure said:
damn what are you doing with all that cut up rod?
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I build these things that go on the end of gated pipe and hold the plug in, and sell them to the local irrigation supplier. Each one takes 3 pieces of rod that get bent up and welded together, and there are 3 common sizes that I make.

This is an extremely old picture I took of some. Had to go way back to find it! The round hoop fits over the gasket bell of the pipe and locks the plug in place so that the water pressure doesn't push it out, yet is still easy to remove unlike driving a t-post in the ground behind it to hold it in. I've made thousands of these damn things over the years. It's one of those things that I'm not really sure if it's worth it, but it makes some beer money, and someone's gotta do it, so I guess it might as well be me. I've made a ton of refinements to the process over the years to make it suck slightly less.

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The past several years I've been running decent sized batches to just get them done and out of the way for a while, and having the local metal supplier cut them to length on their ironworker. This time for some stupid reason I just bought the rod (customer appreciation day when it was 10 or15% off) and I didn't have my cut list with me and didn't want to fuck with getting it to them, so I just picked up the full length pieces and then cut them up myself. It sucked more than I remember it sucking, of course this time I was cutting up and deburring 1500 pieces of rod, so that may have something to do with it. Got done and immediately started shopping for iron workers. Only problem is I don't really want a huge ass iron worker taking up a ton of room in the shop. Ended up ordering this rod shear and will make a frame and hydraulic cylinder for it for a somewhat compact solution I hope.

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billybob_81067 said:
Looks like a bazooka style bead blaster to me. They're pretty cheap on e-bay. I actually got one to build into an air cannon, but like it as a bead blaster more than my bead cheetah, so I've been using it as that. The barrel is screwed on with normal pipe threads, so it'd be stupid simple to swap it out for an air cannon barrel.





I build these things that go on the end of gated pipe and hold the plug in, and sell them to the local irrigation supplier. Each one takes 3 pieces of rod that get bent up and welded together, and there are 3 common sizes that I make.

This is an extremely old picture I took of some. Had to go way back to find it! The round hoop fits over the gasket bell of the pipe and locks the plug in place so that the water pressure doesn't push it out, yet is still easy to remove unlike driving a t-post in the ground behind it to hold it in. I've made thousands of these damn things over the years. It's one of those things that I'm not really sure if it's worth it, but it makes some beer money, and someone's gotta do it, so I guess it might as well be me. I've made a ton of refinements to the process over the years to make it suck slightly less.

647392758_2314688531_0.jpg


The past several years I've been running decent sized batches to just get them done and out of the way for a while, and having the local metal supplier cut them to length on their ironworker. This time for some stupid reason I just bought the rod (customer appreciation day when it was 10 or15% off) and I didn't have my cut list with me and didn't want to fuck with getting it to them, so I just picked up the full length pieces and then cut them up myself. It sucked more than I remember it sucking, of course this time I was cutting up and deburring 1500 pieces of rod, so that may have something to do with it. Got done and immediately started shopping for iron workers. Only problem is I don't really want a huge ass iron worker taking up a ton of room in the shop. Ended up ordering this rod shear and will make a frame and hydraulic cylinder for it for a somewhat compact solution I hope.

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I wonder how big of an air cylinder it would take to run that shear? Hydraulic seems slow...if you had a big air tank as a reserve and a big diameter cylinder pushing it, you could hack the shit out of some bar with that thing. :smokin:


Ever tried something like this for deburring?
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Seem like it'd be quick if you could rig it up on a horizontal motor or just lay a drill press on its side
 
bgaidan said:
What's the valve from?
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Valve came as part of this tire bead blaster: Amazon.com

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Which I learned about from this post 2” .156 wall Dom thanks to MigGunslinger :beer:

Also, there's the source of the chunk I bastardized to make the switch housing for the airsoft gun.
I love making shit out of scraps; makes any hoarding-ish actions I take seem justified :laughing:
 
bgaidan said:
I wonder how big of an air cylinder it would take to run that shear? Hydraulic seems slow...if you had a big air tank as a reserve and a big diameter cylinder pushing it, you could hack the shit out of some bar with that thing. :smokin:


Ever tried something like this for deburring?
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The shear is for a 55 ton ironworker, so air might be out of the question. The stroke length looks to be real short though so I might be able to find a 6" diameter cylinder that's got a bent rod or something and shorten it down to a ridiculously small stroke length, and run it. Might even be able to gang up rod and run 5 at a time or something in the angle slot. I'll definitely be trying stuff out when it gets here using my shop press and see what kind of actual pressures I'll be needing.

I have tried one of those deburring deals and the one I got sucked ass. :laughing: If I can get the shear to work I don't think I'll even need to deburr it. Never did when I had them shear it at the metal supplier, but I did have to pay their shop fees for their time shearing of course.
 
billybob_81067 said:
The shear is for a 55 ton ironworker, so air might be out of the question. The stroke length looks to be real short though so I might be able to find a 6" diameter cylinder that's got a bent rod or something and shorten it down to a ridiculously small stroke length, and run it. Might even be able to gang up rod and run 5 at a time or something in the angle slot. I'll definitely be trying stuff out when it gets here using my shop press and see what kind of actual pressures I'll be needing.
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remember lever ratio multiplies tonnage at the cost of stroke
 
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remember lever ratio multiplies tonnage at the cost of stroke
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And a bit more complexity of linkages and whatnot. Like I said I'll get it in and see if it has a spec sheet on what it should cut and then try it on my 50 ton press and see exactly what kind of pressures I'll be needing for the maximum thickness stuff then go from there. If I can straight push it with a cheap large diameter cylinder that I shave down to retarded stroke length I think that might give me the most compact package. If not I'll figure something out. I'm sure 3/8 and half inch rod will be pretty low pressure to cut, but might as well get the max out of the shear I can for future bullshit. :laughing:
 
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