Shop Miscellany #23

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Please Note: I am a beginning machinist and I do not pretend to know everything. Please always operate machinery in a safe manner and if you don't know, find a reliable source. DO NOT COPY ME. I make a lot of mistakes. I provide these videos for entertainment only.

[@garysgarage101]

That by far the best T handle setup I’ve seen. Will be adapting your excellent idea. Thanks for saving my brain!

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. I am working on an improved design.

[@mrc1539]

Keep my super glue in the fridge and when I need it I put it in my pocket for a few minutes to warm up , then back in the fridge. Been using the same bottle for almost three years now. 😉 !

[@DudleyToolwright]

I will definitely take that advise, thanks.

[@jrkorman]

With the amount of "dust" that came off on your fingers, I wouldn't think they'd make good stones for around your tools. The abrasive dust would get everywhere.

[@DudleyToolwright]

You are absolutely right about that. When I first got them, I rubbed them together a bunch and I didn't get any powder off them. Then. I make the video week later and now they are shedding particles like they are a soft water stone. I am not sure what changed.

[@StuartsShed]

Nice tool hoard! The Icons look nice, but I am very fond of my Bondhuseses.

[@DudleyToolwright]

I have been using Bondhuses for years and have nothing bad to say about them, except for the storage system. You want a small one, you have to twist everything larger out of the way.

[@StuartsShed]

That is true. My T handle ones all live in a custom shelf. Somehow I live with the plastic cases for the L wrenches - maybe because they are compact - but they do slightly annoy me every time I use them. But in all their years of use I’ve never wrecked one. Can’t say the same for the one Snap On set I wasted money on. Alas.

[@MikeBramm]

Put the size markings on the top surface instead of the front surface. You could always drill the holes a little larger if they swell closed a bit.

[@DudleyToolwright]

I did end up drilling the too small holes out. Thanks for the tip on the text location.

[@johnmatthewson6733]

Holes get bigger when a material is heated. Simple conceptual proof. Draw a circle on a plate of material. Does the circle get bigger or smaller? Bigger of course because the whole plate is expanding. Now remove the material inside the circle. The hole expands when heated. Further generalizing this idea, the holes inside a porous material have an effective expansion coefficient equal to that of the surrounding solid material.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks for the clarification. I was aware of the expansion caused shrinkage, but the real killer here is that with some plastics like PLA, the distortion is semi-permanent.

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Sure beats my setup...a couple of jars with all the T-handles stuffed in and always falling over 🤔 ATB......

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. I your setup for a bunch of other things as well.

[@johnmatthewson6733]

Moisture diffuses through ~0.1mm of polymer on the time scale of a few hours. In addition, when flexible polymers are stretched they do not stretch uniformly - microscopic channels open up between the polymer chains further increasing the rate of moisture diffusion. So stretching electrical tape will not be very effective as you find. Aluminum foil would help, but putting the glue in the freezer, as suggested in another comment, should be much better solution.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks for the technical perspective. I was not aware that water diffusion could happen so easily in stretchy polymers.

[@reinorapper]

Robert , loctite recommended to me to keep our cyno"s in the fridge.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Good tip. I got that suggestion relating to a specialized cyanoacrylate, but I didn't know that, that was a general recommendation.

[@bendtheirons8648]

Put super glue in the freezer. I have bottles that last for years after being opened.

[@iteerrex8166]

Oh it’s cool enough to reduce the volatility? I’m gona try it, moving it rn in a topper-ware. Thanks 👍

[@christophercullen1236]

Robert nice work with the tooling for Max he lives on the after side of the country to me . West Australia is famous for its wild flowers people from all around the world to view them in the spring , am sure there will be a lot of documentary on the net . ( I don't think Max is into Floral arrangements) Kit from down under

[@DudleyToolwright]

The "After Side"? Neat expression. Thanks for the info. I have only been to Melbourne.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Good tip. I got that suggestion relating to a specialized cyanoacrylate, but I didn't know that, that was a general recommendation.

[@henrikskott]

Isn't the process for cyanoacrylates a hardening process started at a nucleation site rather than a drying process? Once it gets started, it just continues, albeit a bit slow in the absence of more nuceation sites. Hmm, feels like I'll be going down a rabbit hole on wikipedia one of these days...

[@DudleyToolwright]

I was not aware that it was a nucleation mediated reaction. If so that is really interesting and the repercussions are significant.