Beautiful!

 

Not sure I ever posted this here but last year I made this.

Mount for 14" Spal on TSE radiator. It holds a 0.7" gap from the fins which I closed up with adhesive "D" shaped rubber seal.

Creating the basic dimensions that would hold the fan









Had to then measure out and roughly model the TSE radiator







Made the brackets that would hold the mount on; Fusion360 has a mobile app to view projects. The bottom holes are slotted in multiple directions just to account for manufacturing variations or if anyone wanted to use it on another radiator

Brackets shown (Screenshot from Fusion360 mobile App)

 

That's some beautiful metal.

I love the fact that we live in an era in which I can draw a complex thing on a computer screen, pay some money, and be holding a physical manifestation of that thing a few days later.

Any plans to seal the fan against the core?

 

Yes! After the mockup, that 0.7" gap is taken up by an adhesive backed "D" shaped rubber seal. I made sure to acetone wipe and plasma treat the surface of aluminum to promote better adhesion

 

Fusion 360 kicks butt. 99% of solid works, for free.

 

It occurred to me today as I was measuring an aluminum box that I have seen pictures of this rule posted hundreds of times:



I don't mean rules similar to it, I mean this exact, specific, Westcott brand 18" stainless steel rule with a crappy cork backing that disintegrates after just a few decades. It seems as though every single fabrication-nerd on earth has one.

In fact, it occurs to me that I have three of them. One which I bought many years ago, one which was sitting in my new desk when I started working at WPIX in 2013 (and subsequently took with me when I left), and one which, similarly, was sitting on a shelf in my new office at WGN when I moved here in 2016.

Is it just me? Do I naturally attract this ruler?

 

Got another one of these welded up for a guy doing a v8 swap.

 

I need one of these.

 

PM me. I have materials to make 2 more at the moment and enough laser cut plates to make another dozen or so.

 

Could just be you, because i really like mine. Thin and flexible. Easy to get into tight and small spaces. I have many of these and they're randomly laying around.



Edit, er yeah. I measure a lot in thousands.

 

I have one of those westscott 18" ones on my desk at work. I used it like twice before I had the tool crib order me a proper (if SPI) 12" scale with markings in 1/16th, 32nds, and 50 thou. The westscott just sucks because it isnt very straight on the edge,the corners are rounded, and the zero isnt on the end and for like $25 you can get a proper hardish scale.

 

I hate when the zero isn't on the end. I see why they do it, but I want to be able to measure accurately from an inside corner.

 

So I'm strolling through the front office this morning doing the coffee thing.

I spot this on our secretary / order entry lady's desk.




This actually really bothers me. How is this even usable?

Even the cheap HF scale I have starts at the edge...

 

Because its a ruler, and not a scale. It's made for paper. Betting there's cork on the back of it, too. Still good for smacking people/children with, though.

 

I have at least a dozen scales at work and home. Some in tenths, some in 1/16's. Several are Westcott with the cork on the back. A couple are wooden, including an old triangular drafting scale that I can't bear to throw out, but never use.

I mostly use 6" scales, and have them stashed all over the shop. Then there are the tape measures, calipers, carpenter squares, verniers...

 

I work for a startup orthopedic device company. I've been trying to find a cost-effective way for our sales people to demo our products, so I went in on 3d printing. Bought a Lulzbot Taz 6 (this was definitely not the cost-effective part). It is an awesome piece of machinery though.



It's been 20 years since I've done solid modeling, but I got Fusion 360 and learned it pretty quick. Got a solid reconstruction of a CT scan, then designed these articulated demo models.



Our product is the stretchy little artificial ligament. The model is very effective.

When the printer is not being used for models, I'm making other cool stuff. This bracket to keep my stupid dog from getting into the trash can:







And these covers keep the eye cups on my binoculars from getting dirty when I'm doing guy ****.

 

I fully support upgrading your setup to include a box with filtered exhaust fan to keep the stink down. Also fully support getting a raspberry pi and running octoprint on it. with a webcam. it's incredibly handy. you can manage it remotely and even via phone app.






app with live webcam:




and yes, those are gas/vapor mask cartridges. they are cheap and do a great job.
my next upgrade change is to have the raspberry pi manage the fan and lights so I don't have to hit a switch to turn them on when I start heating the nozzle / bed.

 

Wow. That, sir, is a fine setup. Did you build the box yourself or is that a kit?

I just started messing with Arduinos a few months ago, I probably need to get the Raspberry Pi thing figured out too. My programming game is weak.

 

I did build the box myself. It's mostly from McMaster-Carr. the sides are PETG.

The nice thing about using Octoprint with the Pi is that you don't need to program anything. Just follow the instructions.
https://octoprint.org/download/

There are a few linux commands to type in and a couple of files to edit, but it's pretty easy. All you need is a PC with an SD card reader to get started. The rest of it is GUI. You can then connect Octoprint to Cura and it'll show the live video, controls, and temps right in the Cura UI.

 

Not my doing, but hats off to Kev Thompson at Hot Rod Solutions. Just finished up the EFI conversion on my heavily ported SB2.2 intake.