I have worked in the motor and mechanical industry for the last 38 years, beginning my jouney with Sapphire Motorcycles in Cumbria, I also worked for Englands oldest Honda dealer, White Bros of Darlington County Durham. I have repaired and worked on some of the smallest engines to the largest main line military machinery, if it has an engine in it I have probably worked on it.
Another of my passions is making many of my own tools and or equipment, the savings generated have come in mighty handy over the years; In this ever changing world knowledge and real life skills are of paramount importance if we are to weather the many storms that modernity is constantly throwing at us, sharing that hand to eye coordination sets the future for others who choose to follow.
This summer I will be making many more hand tools, some of these I will call tools for jewels in order of making more items of jewellery, including a bespoke jewellers work bench.
I'm working on an older (similar) crank (1973 RD125) and the manual shows the left and right cranks being separated first with a simple tools which clamp on to the perimeter of each crank and are then pushed apart by turning bolts threaded in to one of the tools. They then press the conrod pins out of the individual cranks. Would this perhaps have been a method used if there was no tube like yours available?
interesting video, im looking to swap out the conrods on a 125 twin for ones off a 200 twin.. but having never done crank rebuilding i looked to see if a company can do it, but so far nobody local cant take the ends off ,like in your video on two cranks to swap the conrods over and rebuild n true .. i may look to do this myself
I've been thinking about a similar tool to help with miniature painting and scribing. Could you post the material list you used to build this? Similar devices are extremely expensive, and I'd rather build my own for much cheaper.
Hi, @daviddanielstephenson2833 Any suggestions on how to achieve the 180 degree alignment without any marks as I have 2 new webs without previous markings?
Wow you must have access to some high quality metal working tools. That is very professional looking . I just ordered a vertical jig off of Amazon that has a hand grip built into the frame to bad I didnt see your device on there it appears to be every bit as functional and professional looking as the ones on Amazon great job .
in england paraffin refers to kerosene. in america paraffin refers to a different product and much more expensive product used in many lamps becuase it smells less.
Your description says they can keep you warm (in a small area?). I was a bit curious to get input on how much warmth that is? Its probably not a lot but even if its a small amount that's not bad. Some of us live in high elevation areas. And that means at night during summer, fall, our nights can get pretty cold. Like mid 40s. So you have to be creative in camping in areas that don't let you have campfires. And even then sometimes people don't want to breathe the smoke from a campfire.
They output about 2800 BTUs, it takes about 30 BTUs to heat a square foot, but you wouldn't be able to take it camping, it's too big, and fragile, especially the mantle and glass chimney.
I like how you have adapted the stand to this engine. It has many positions with the rotation in two planes. Have you thought about a stand for single and multi cylinder motorcycle engines? I would be interested in your thoughts on that.
The main upright pole can be made any length and then bolted to the floor, the head unit slides off once the quick clip is remover for other engine holding bracket/arms could be used.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 Yes, I have been working on some engine holders to fit the Harbor Freight auto engine stand and also a stand that is a knock off of the American Honda stand supplied to dealers here in the US in the late 70's and early 80's. They are still used in Honda's training centers for engine tear down and test running.
Hello David, it look great with paint. If you were going to build this into a floor mounted stand would you just extend the vertical pipe to a mobile base?
A floor mounted socket/plate could be used so the head unit and or vertical pole could be removed, the options are open to many interpretations, even one for mobile workshops. I have several more on the drawing board, one similar to the ones used in the factory by Lambretta.
Can you tell what is the OD of that 10mm wall press tube, I'm guessing 6.6" maybe, x 12" tall with 10" x 2" slot? And the size of the Magnetic V-block is it 4" long?
The press tube is made from a seamless hydraulic ram, measuring 14 inches tall, the slot is 10 inches deep and the outer diameter is 6 inches, wall thickness 10.00mm. The magnetic block is 4 inches long.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 I have purchased a tube 6” OD 5.25” ID .375” Wall x 14” Long. It’s cut square but a little bit of sawtooth marking on the ends, debating to have the ends faced or not before cutting the slot… which brings to the next question, what is the width of the slot? Will be used for TZR250 or RZ350 parallel twin.
@@3DCharacterArt The slot is 40.00mm wide, same for the pressing plate, which is large enough for most conrods, the slot in the pressing plate needs to clear whatever size the big end is across, so the plate can rest right up against the big end journal. If you can square the ends of the tube both ends so it sits perfectly square, then pressing out pins will be much easier.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 It's a 125 Agility City and I am going to adjust the carb needle on the carburetor to give it a bit more fuel as it would be good to have a bit more power for overtaking?
I find that poor light quality is cause by the fire spreader even cleaned with toothbrush doesn't work a wire brush for cleaning from carbon build up see to work best
