Shopping Trolley for Castings

[Jo]

In light of Surus' latest acquisition of castings I felt the need for a new casting set shopping trolley  .. well its new to me... I was dragged round an Autojumble yesterday and it looked so lonely so we brought it home for some TLC. It looks like who ever originally brought it never finished assembling it and left it outside for 10 years My supplier is bending up a replacement pedal for it  other than that and the missing split pin on the bottom of the ram (there was a paperclip in there  ) I just have to find somewhere to put it.

Hopefully 500Kgs should be sufficient for any casting sets that might come my way 

Jo

[Vixen]

 

Mike

[Alyn Foundry]

Hold onto your " hat " Jo.....

                   

[Jasonb]

Hold onto your " hat " Jo.....

                   

I think the phrase you need with Jo is "Hold onto your Purse"

Some nice looking contents in your shopping baskets Graham

[Jo]

  No curved spoked flywheels.... that must only be the first half of Surus' casting order 

Jo

[crueby]

No curved spoked flywheels.... that must only be the first half of Surus' casting order 

Jo

Hope your floors are reinforced!

[Alyn Foundry]

No curved spoked flywheels.... that must only be the first half of Surus' casting order 

Jo

             

[Bluechip]

In light of Surus' latest acquisition of castings I felt the need for a new casting set shopping trolley  .. well its new to me... I was dragged round an Autojumble yesterday and it looked so lonely so we brought it home for some TLC. It looks like who ever originally brought it never finished assembling it and left it outside for 10 years My supplier is bending up a replacement pedal for it  other than that and the missing split pin on the bottom of the ram (there was a paperclip in there  ) I just have to find somewhere to put it.

Hopefully 500Kgs should be sufficient for any casting sets that might come my way 

Jo

Hi Jo

Handsome looking thing.     Looks like a good buy.

Just had a haircut. Bought a large pork pie to aid my convalescence ... 

Dave

PS   I'm sure Eric is too much of a gentleman to drag anyone anywhere .... you didn't seem to be unwilling when I left anyway ... 

[Jo]

PS   I'm sure Eric is too much of a gentleman to drag anyone anywhere .... you didn't seem to be unwilling when I left anyway ... 

Eric is too slow to do the dragging

Jo

[Jasonb]

PS   I'm sure Eric is too much of a gentleman to drag anyone anywhere .... you didn't seem to be unwilling when I left anyway ... 

Eric is too slow to do the dragging

Jo

Never mind, he has got a Trolly Dolly to wheel him about now

[Jo]

The only item missing from the hydraulic table was the pedal so my supplier took the opportunity to bend up an arm to match the one off of his hydraulic table for me in exchange for a Sticky wotsit 

In the mean time I had brought a Taxi clutch pedal rubber and mounted it on a home made pedal. Which has been mounted in a way that lets it rock as the pedal goes up and down 

We are calling that done and Surus now just needs some castings to test it with 

Jo

[Vixen]

 

Mike

[mikecole7]

Which leg are going use Jo

What size are those bolts on your bench

Mike

[Jo]

Which leg are going use Jo

Strange you should ask that Mike: I have been using my right leg but I noticed that Eric used his left leg while he is right handed  Turns out he has another damaged body part and he struggles to bend his right knee 

What size are those bolts on your bench

Those are M16 bolts on Eric's bench. We picked them up last Sunday at the Autojumble for 50p each. I think they are for his various over head cranes 


Back on the casting table: I have got a home made lifting table which was originally made to enable me to lift 5" Locos in and out of a car on my own. But it is not as heavy duty as this one which should be able to lift my 2" ploughing engine onto the central constructing bench. However I still have to work on how to achieve that last 14" down to the floor: Eric has been trying to convince me that I too should consider a crop of overhead cranes which might provide the last little bit, or maybe just use the engine crane 

Jo

[Jasonb]

However I still have to work on how to achieve that last 14" down to the floor:

Jo

When I was far more likely to have built the Superba ploughing engine I too was looking into ways to move it up and down and had decided that I would get a high lift pallet. With a simple table these go upto about a meter high but more importantly down to around 100mm which would be easy enough to bump the engine up onto by hand or with a small ramp. Also with the handle being at the opposite end of the X legs to yours easy to get well into the back of the car without the bumper/tailgate getting in the way.

Would also be handy to move machines about should the need arise.