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David Daniel Stephenson
Приєднався 5 сер 2022
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.
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.
Homemade Jewellery Hand Press
From a homemade tool to intrinsic value items made from several recycled materials, 2" by 3/4" aluminium solid bar, a "3/4 dia steel rod and a cupped former from my wooden scraps bin.
Some of the items we have made can be seen in the communities section of our channel.
Some of the items we have made can be seen in the communities section of our channel.
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Відео
Carb Back Flush and De-varnish Suzuki GS 500 carbs.
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Another set of vintage carbs going through my special three part cleaning process, first the outsides are de gunged and then the contents of the float bowls/jets and all are removed, the bowls replaced to act as a swirl chamber to force out the debris that collects. This allows the strong red hot detergent mix to gradually soften the years of built up fuel varnish and or residues. I have found ...
Homemade Jewellery
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A handmade pendant using recycled materials, the silver disc was part of an old Sterling milk jug and the centre piece an ivory disc made from an old billiard ball from the Victorian era.
Tool Making Part 7
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Another short video showing how I make my own bespoke tools.
Toolmaking Part 6
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More hand turning of tool steel on the woodwork lathe on its slowest speed of three, showing how eash it is to turn metal by hand with the correct profile custom made cutting tool.
Workshop Tool Making Part 5
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In this video I show how I turn my new brass stamping hammer using my woodwork lathe and modifies hand tools.
Biotechnical Micro Manipulators
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Here is a small sellection of my homemade micro manipulators, used by honey bee breeders to acquire gain of function for insemination of queen honey bees. This method is used when nature and natural mating flights are hampered by bad or unsuitable weather, also used to breed favurable atributes of the bees to make handling them easier and safer. Whenever a good or calm colony is extant you bree...
Workshop tools and Add-Ons
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Another video showing my third hand with its stainless plate which is machine turned and a homemade ring vice, this aids adding and or soldering small items to an existing piece of jewellery, and fits into my bench pin clamp which I made from a section of box metal cut to take the slide in pins and other tools. Thank you for looking.
Workshop tools, The Third Hand
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With a few recycled parts and several coins I made my very own third hand for soldering and other fiddly jobs, I have wanted a decent one for years but did not want to pay through the nose for the well known versions from GRS, so I made my own. The base is of Birch Plywood and eventually I will place a machine turned stainless steel plate to protect the plywood, another video to follow showing ...
Workshop Grinder
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Another horizontal grinder, this time for doing the rougher cuts to remove metal faster than the slower version that I made earlier, made from parts rescued and recycled from an old electric drier and a plywood disc cut on the woodwork lathe. Thanks for looking.
LamboStand
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First prototype complete, my Lambretta double swivel engine stand.
My Homemade Craft Blade
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Pictured here is one of my my homemade craft knives, made from 1/4" square section nickel silver bar and prt of an old industrial hacksaw blade, it is very comfortable in the hand and looks fantastic when polishd up, it has extra weight in the hand which aids control in the delicate cutting situations, you know you have it in the hand during use. Thanks for looking.
Loss Wax Casting and Horizontal Grinding Machines Part 3
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The final series of my homemade workshop silver casting and sharpening tools, both work flawlesly.
Loss Wax Casting & Horizontal Machines Part 2
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A little further along and almost there, both machines taking shape now, as parts are secured the final hurdle almost crossed. Part 1 here, ua-cam.com/video/us8JdSwm2yI/v-deo.html Part 3 here, ua-cam.com/video/dZAZJoYXwcA/v-deo.html
Loss Wax Casting and Horizontal Grinding Machines
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Loss Wax Casting and Horizontal Grinding Machines
A ride to Hawes and a Small Superbike.
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A ride to Hawes and a Small Superbike.
Excellent job. Where did you get the motor from?
From a childs garden toy tractor 24 volt.
Top work sir!
Hi David, could you advise the thickness of the small plate which helps support the main plate ? I am guessing it is 5mm ? Also, what size vee block are you using, 4inch ?
i just came across your vid. . great machine. . im making a similar machine to sharpen gravers(tiny jeweler chisel).. can you give a bit more info on the motor you used. . looks like planetary reducer . also cheers on the magnets on baseplate. .really great stuff
Really cool stuff. Great job! Could you feed the end of one mechanism into another?
thank you for this video, lot of inspiration.
Tks for the vídeo! Great!
If you do find the ball moving as you work, try using a bit of rosin to increase the friction. I dissolve some rosin in acetone to give a thin solution, wipe a bit on to a surface and the acetone evaporates almost instantly giving a higher friction finish. I keep a bottle handy for use on tool handles, vice jaws etc. when I need just that extra bit of grip ps I get my rosin blocks from a friend who plays violin - she gets a fresh block every year
Hi David, just found today my rd350lc crank needs a rebuild (left big end just on its way out). Would you be able to help rebuild it ? thanks in advance
Sorry for the late reply, I have not uploaded a new video for quite some time, I do crank building courses if you would like to learn how to do things in house with your own equipment.
@@DavidStevenson-gw2eoI would please I have 3 banshee cranks that need rebuilding now one has a slice on the shaft from bearing removal can that affect anything?? Thanks for the great videos
@@Fso_performance It depends upon how deep the slice is, to weather it will sever off the shaft over time, of course any weakness created by disrepair could fail at some time, if the cranks are welded it can also creates problems, but everything is repairable to some degree.
@@DavidStevenson-gw2eo is there any other way to contact you besides UA-cam ??
Are you selling these yet! Im interested. Will it also manage small engines like the j / luna lui range engines?
Nice job.👍
Love your work
Nice brothers your are brilian
I've been looking for something like this forever! Is there any way you have a 3d model of this?
Looks very good👌👌👌 do you have plans or size Clamps?
I like it ! What is the spec and source of the motor ? And the abrasive disc/mount ?
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?
Brilliant!
I think ill give it a shot with this 400 crank I've got here. Not a bad job from the looks of it.
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
Great vidio thank you. I am about to use your. Great idea. Thank you. Andy mac
very very interesting. Many thanks. I just bought a 12t press
Factory cranks where rarely that true. Good work.
I'll give you $50 for one if you sell them I don't have the tools to make one at home.
Very clever brother. 👏 bravo.
Brilliant! How wide of T-slot would you suggest (to accommodate any 4 carb setup)?
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?
Parafin=no.
Nice going.
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 .
Very well done series! Thank you!!
Do you have a video of reassembly?
Excellent! Thank you for sharing!!!
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I had thought you should not use paraffin??
I’ve had people swear not to use paraffin in Aladdin lamps
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.
Thanks for sharing this mate; 'tis much appreciated. You got any more details of the pump you use, such as flow rate e.t.c?
Excellent
That's really nice work.
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