{"id":410,"date":"2013-04-27T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-04-27T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:24:56","slug":"workshop-improvement-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Improvement Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The club (akakraft e.V.) who runs the workshop I’m using is holding “work days” on a regular basis. The workshop is cleaned, maintenance of the machine park is done, light bulbs are changed and new hardware is installed. Some time ago a extraction system for exhaust gases was donated. Today we started to do the piping. There already is a hole in the outer wall at a convenient place but the pipes used are 11cm in diameter and the hole is 17cm. Where can we get a adaptor? This doesn’t sound like a part which is available everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever tried to put a keg on a lathe? Nope. Not until now…<\/p><\/div>\n

I LOVE such tasks. Just take your measuring tape and roam through the workshop or a hardware store and look for stuff which might help. Great training for your skills in visual judgement of dimensions as well. Obviously I started searching at the scrap box since it’s full at the moment and there’s always good stuff. And Bingo! A five liter keg of a rather well known beer which doesn’t really taste like much. It’s conical as well so it will be a snug fit. It only needs two holes of the right size. Normally you would start to mess around with pliers to get it done somehow in a fast and dirty way. But that’s not how we do it. Everything has to be over engineered, look nice and the fabrication process has to involve fancy machinery. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On the bottom we just marked the center with a center bore, adjusted the turning chisel to it, zeroed the scale and measured outwards.<\/p>\n

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A keg spinning on the lathe at 14 (!) rpm<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Since the top already has a small hole we started on the outer diameter, zeroed the scale and measured inwards.<\/p>\n

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The finished part.<\/p><\/div>\n

The first hole was a perfect fit. You could slip it on the tubing easy and it was difficult to remove it again. The second hole was a little off but still alright.<\/p>\n

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The finished product<\/p><\/div>\n

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Temporary installment to see how good it fits.<\/p><\/div>\n

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