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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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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.
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
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??
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.
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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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.
I appreciate these videos your process make a lot of sense to me
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 ok thanks!
@@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.
@@casino130 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 Thank you!
Super carburetors, not like the small carb on my motorbike. 👍👍👍👍👍
What make model is your scooter?
@@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
Use lemon juice to soak and brush clean
Thanks for showing David
Thank you for sharing your dimensions
Ha I've go mine fron Axminster also mine is even older still use mine
I could not be without this tool for it can do much more than is stated, thanks for posting.
Very nice bit of upcycling.
That is awsome. Thank for the coin tip.
What is the top precious metal you melted with this setup?
Only silver up to now, works very quickly with sterling and will melt most grades of gold also, the main coil needs to be chnged out for a 1/4 inch dia copper tube with six turns for optimum heating and cooling, the supplied 3/16 inch coil is too slow.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 wonderful set up.
@@tipxking9944 I works very well indeed, right on the desk top safely, the HiFi speak directly behind does not even get warm, even so close, best setup I have put together, cheap as chips too.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 I just got progress from working on microwave transformer to hopefully melt this palladium. I created the arc of electricity but it's short lived due to being about 24v of direct current. Short 12more turns for minimum power but I'm still able to create and stabilize it with 1 transformer. In other words, I stumbled upon your build which looks fairly small size compared to some giant builds with complex equipment. I looked at induction heating to minimize use of gases to melt precious metals as well so after the transformer mod I think I want to play around with making an induction heater but I'll need a lot more knowledge of electrical components to start from.
@@tipxking9944 The problem with doing a larger induction setup is the DC voltage supply needed, I can run my half pound crucible on a 240 volt wall plug no problem, using 6 square wire to stop it overheating, on the larger system cooling is also going to need a lot larger pump and coil. For a larger setup you are going to need a lot bigger electricity supply, min 3 phase. I have still to complete my drop valave system and argon shield to keep the metal clear, there re commercial units avaiable but at 12 k they are way out of my price range, the small one is more than adequate for what I do, and it is really clean and efficient.
May I ask sir what your trade is ?
A full explanation can be seen in my about page, predominantly a motorcycle engineer and or small engine expert and tool maker. I also like to practice the old real life skills as well as the more modern 3D drawing and or tech CNC, aka, Solidworks, I often drift in and out of modernity using the aforementioned skills. Basically if the tech fails I can cross over into the anologue paradigm and carry on working.
Gday sir Is that a number 405 M&W surface scribe ?
Yes it is, the oil blued version.
Good work, thanks 👍!