V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
you're pushing your luck after waking us and more particularly PAM, up at 08.00 this morning matey
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
You need a wake up call once in a while.... Keep you on your toesyou're pushing your luck after waking us and more particularly PAM, up at 08.00 this morning matey
Your lucky it wasn't at six.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
no ...... you are ... you'd have been having a conversation with Pam at sixYou need a wake up call once in a while.... Keep you on your toes
CPS
Well-known member
Any one that would call me at 8 on a Sunday morning would get his goolies squashed in one of those grabsno ...... you are ... you'd have been having a conversation with Pam at six
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
You need motivation's been seven before now
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I'll let you tell Pam that, the next time you're up hereYou need motivation
it'll go down well, I'm sure
CPS
Well-known member
Il check my big box of odd ball sesls tomorrow for you
pettsy
Well-known member
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
as you may guess, the above is the gland seal out of the Cranab ram .... little bitch it was too .
step one .... evacuate said ram of liquid gold (also known as Plantohyd) in a controlled manner .... saves a lot of cleaning up of 2 litres of oil
step 2 find out WTF is lurking behind the cover plate
I had actually sussed it by this point and had installed the SHCSs to deal with it ... had spaced said cover out to get a hold of it with the 4 ft stillis to rotate the end cap lurking in the cylinder to free it off ... so's I could tap it back in
to reveal this gert spring clip
which took some extracting
tapped it in first to get an end out the groove, to get under it to get behind it with this
can't recall what I made it for maaaany years agom to pull summat out of somewhere, but it's done a few little jobs over the years ... and worked very well on this one too that was some spring clip - 6mm and serious
some compressed air into the extend port and this popped out, sweet as, after id give the neck of the cylinder a good wipe clean first, of course
grub screw located and removed and it came apart sweet ...
somebody else'd been in there at some time .. ****ing butchers
all it needed was a decent sized adjustable (see previous pic) and came off - "simples" ... allowing access to the gland/end cap
which simply slid off
the acetal bearings were a POP ....... the seal on the other hand took some persuading out of where it lived
piston pack looks fine ... all off and cleaned ...
as does the dirt scraper seal out of the end cap
not a dint or mark on it
and i'm out o' pix again
step one .... evacuate said ram of liquid gold (also known as Plantohyd
) in a controlled manner .... saves a lot of cleaning up of 2 litres of oil step 2 find out WTF is lurking behind the cover plate
I had actually sussed it by this point and had installed the SHCSs to deal with it ... had spaced said cover out to get a hold of it with the 4 ft stillis to rotate the end cap lurking in the cylinder to free it off ... so's I could tap it back in
to reveal this gert spring clip
which took some extracting
tapped it in first to get an end out the groove, to get under it to get behind it with this
can't recall what I made it for maaaany years agom to pull summat out of somewhere,
but it's done a few little jobs over the years ... and worked very well on this one too that was some spring clip - 6mm and serioussome compressed air into the extend port and this popped out, sweet as, after id give the neck of the cylinder a good wipe clean first, of course
grub screw located and removed and it came apart sweet ...
somebody else'd been in there at some time .. ****ing butchers
all it needed was a decent sized adjustable (see previous pic) and came off - "simples" ... allowing access to the gland/end cap
which simply slid off
the acetal bearings were a POP ....... the seal on the other hand took some persuading out of where it lived
piston pack looks fine ... all off and cleaned ...
as does the dirt scraper seal out of the end cap
not a dint or mark on it
and i'm out o' pix again
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
whilst I had the beast securely tehtered to the bench I bumped the base bushes out as the one had worked its way into the centre, as it was devoid of a spacer ....
went back in sweet ...
I'll make it a 3/4 spring spacer tomorrow and slip it in there ... nowt available to suit the bore size today ... 59 milly is a weird size andno lathe to make a solid one up 
everything clean and sat indoors tonight ... awaiting a new seal .... 's a lump of a rod
as you'll have guessed from the clear bench .... the Cranab went back together this morning ... well late morning after me hamster juice session ..
one in POP ...
then juggle the other half in ..... VA-r made it relatively simple ..
pinned in and ......... in with the link rod
bit 'floppy' without a ram installed ... but only as far as gravity allowed
got it horizontal for a very controllable hand operation to grease it all up
new nipple required as it spat it back out when it got 'operated'
job did ..
ratchet strapped it closed for now and a couple of timber spacers between the ram pins for good measure and ...... I'm out o' pix AGAIN !!
went back in sweet ...
I'll make it a 3/4 spring spacer tomorrow and slip it in there ... nowt available to suit the bore size today ... 59 milly is a weird size
andno lathe to make a solid one up everything clean and sat indoors tonight ... awaiting a new seal .... 's a lump of a rod
as you'll have guessed from the clear bench .... the Cranab went back together this morning ... well late morning after me hamster juice session ..
one in POP ...
then juggle the other half in ..... VA-r made it relatively simple ..
pinned in and ......... in with the link rod
bit 'floppy' without a ram installed ... but only as far as gravity allowed
got it horizontal for a very controllable hand operation to grease it all up
new nipple required as it spat it back out when it got 'operated'
job did ..
ratchet strapped it closed for now and a couple of timber spacers between the ram pins for good measure and ...... I'm out o' pix AGAIN !!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
....... and dropped it off the bench ....
looking a lot tidier, even if I do say so myself ... did um and arrr about blacking the pins, but could always do them again , a pin at a time ....
wanted it off the bench ........ just got a few scratches/battle scars to touch up on the tongs ...the Druid gold hadn't really had time to harden off properly like glass when it's left a few days/a week
more pix of the ram dismembering here if anyone wants a blow by blow .... https://s1275.photobucket.com/user/v8druid/library/buckets?sort=3&page=1
looking a lot tidier, even if I do say so myself
... did um and arrr about blacking the pins, but could always do them again , a pin at a time ....wanted it off the bench ........ just got a few scratches/battle scars to touch up on the tongs ...the Druid gold hadn't really had time to harden off properly
like glass when it's left a few days/a week more pix of the ram dismembering here if anyone wants a blow by blow .... https://s1275.photobucket.com/user/v8druid/library/buckets?sort=3&page=1
pettsy
Well-known member
spot on Boyo, page 4
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Cyberprog
Well-known member
I have been playing round with Silver again this weekend, cast this little Lego heart for a friend of Helen's who is a NHS nurse and fellow AFOL.
This was cast from 925 Sterling in a Deflt Sand flask mould Was good fun!
This was cast from 925 Sterling in a Deflt Sand flask mould
Was good fun!
Mark
Well-known member
Thoughts on this rod Druid?
Will be getting done under warranty by finning, got them to replace rod and reseal it last august. Month or two later started scoring like so, perfect scoring length wise on the rod and 360 degrees. Got another new rod and resealed in January and done the exact same again only 300 hours on so on this rod and done the exact same.
Shovelhands
Well-known member
Something wrong with the end cap/gland?
Has it got a cushion in the ram?
Had a very similar thing in a dipper ram, old machine, but had a big collar behind the gland, it looked fine, but was picking up on the road and ruined it.
Has it got a cushion in the ram?
Had a very similar thing in a dipper ram, old machine, but had a big collar behind the gland, it looked fine, but was picking up on the road and ruined it.
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