What I did today (pics)

[wierdscience]

Being soaking wet outside I decided to do one PITA shop repair/mod and one Backburner customer part.

The first is a flyweight for the brake on a casket lowering hoist.Extreme right is the damaged old weight,center the one good weight that was left and on the left we have a plaster mould of the good one.


The nould was just a section of tubing tacked to a plate with an old roller chain leaf for a support to hang the good weight from while the plaster dried.I sped up the drying process with a couple hours in the heat treat furnace set on 250F.

Once the plaster was set,a couple good taps with a screwdriver handle and the original popped out leaving a good cavity for the new pour.Clamped in the old weight stem,re-melted the old weight along with an old battery terminal and poured.The new weight shrank predictably and popped right out.Some cleanup with a file and all is well.

[lazlo]

Nice job Darrin.

[wierdscience]

Second is the PITA fix I have been planning,but didn't have time for.

2hp Taiwan B-port clone,as typical no good surface to pull on when sliding the motor forward or back to change speeds.Capacitor can was always handy,but always working loose as a result.

So I rolled up a ring from 1 x 3/16" flat stock,welded on a couple chain links for a hinge and added a handle and two bosses for the drawbolt.



Here it is installed,makes life easier already.

[Frank Ford]

Cool, I'll remember that chain link hinge. . .

[lugnut]

What Frank said, I really like that chain link thing
Mel

[Tony Ennis]

Chain link hinge is genius.

I like the lead mold, too.

[Fasttrack]

+4 on the hinge ... I've got about 8' of 40 (or was it 60?) chain from a combine that I couldn't let myself throw away, despite being junk. Now I've got a use for it ... a whole bunch of hinges ...

[Doozer]

Drop Dead Gorgeous!

--Doozer

[gda]

Another vote for the coolness of the chain link hinge!

[wierdscience]

Thanks guys,guess you can tell I didn't grow up in the city

Heck I should probably do a post on just all the incarnations of roller chain hinges