Competition Fabricating No2-Part4

 Oh good, ya' here for another helping of 3D action. Sausage wars are history..HURRAY!....But, Fish wars are here....big kick off in 2 days time...Boooo...(but an Agincourt Salute to the Froggies...hurray!) Covid19 variants still spreading like wildfire....Boooo....(The 'Old Sidevalve Bar' is closed to all untested and unvaccinated.....mmmm, it's the right thing to do! If ya gonna go walk around without mask Fook ya!

So, ya old Uncle Alb is working alone, Staying safe and staying 3D. I'm still aiming to ride the T.E.T. at some point in the future, or worst case leave a T.E.T. attacker for next of kin.

Cones, thats my focus. Stainless cones that attach to the china expansion chamber to be precise. Made from off cut tube without any C.A.D. templates or rolling machinery. Yes, it's a challenge so as far as I'm concerned a bit of wonky here and there is gonna be expected. Let's do it!

Hey...Bling with added Hendersons!  Long live The Shire' and all who appreciate it.

Still more to do so keep looking in and waving those 2 fingers....

Competition Fabricating No2-Part3

 'Tis I'!!!  Back again....update part 3 of the T.E.T. competition exhaust with added Mr Grumpy ramblings. Nay, mark my words dear friends I'm no old stick 'n mud, but as an approved blogger prophet writing prophecies for the Vintafake Brotherhood be aware w'at be w'itten here first will certainly come to pass. (A prophecy (noun) is a prediction issued by a prophet.) Hail don't be part of the world social decline I ask you, build a shed, try talking face to face wi ya chums and do summat wi what ya was born wi' Aye! Ya mind and hands, stop sitting on ya fat arses with a gob full of Greggs trans fats!!!!!

Tell ya what....I know I'm beating a lonely furrow wi' the Covid warnings......Last year 18th Oct daily infections 16,225..This year 18th Oct 42,123....  WAKE UP PEEPS!!! The pandemic is slowly but surely killing the human race. What will speed up the distruction and save ya all the bother of queuing to get ya winter booster jabs is that Fookin' lunatic Mark Zuckerberg taking on 10,000 peeps within the E.U. to promote and mould 'The Metaverse' in his vision.  For crying out loud!!!! The future? Is this what ya want?

Here in 'The Old Sidevalve Bar' where everything you see is in living 3D with real smells, touchy feely tools and seasonal temperature changes reality can be what you make it....Don't need the T.V.goggles cos I'm preparing to be the last man standing in reality. 

The 3D real life stainless race exhaust system is continuing along it's constructional route. Must tell ya, I'm feeling rich internal fulfilment at the moment (or even possibly 'stoked') from finishing the modifications that made an ebay purchased spurious stainless bend into a bespoke stainless bend. 'Yorkshireshireshire shed made 'n' bloody don't forget it! T.E.T. Here I come!!!

A 45 deg bend of the same diameter was duly ordered from the same supplier. A small off-cut trimmed from the first bend off-cut (Huh?) made ain insert to hold the 2 x bends while I 'Splatter MIG Welded' them together. Much of the usual grinding, filing, sanding, polishing and buffing pursued until 2 x bends were melded as one.

Next job in my 3D world of life is to fabricate the expansion entry cone. Enter stage left another piece of bend off-cut. Cut and spread to suit. 'Splatter MIG' all joints and slits before handworking into submissive bling. 

The 'Shire is alive' !!! I mean dirty and sweaty alive!!! Long may it remain so.. 

Stay tuned, stay analogue, and resist Zuckerberg.  Catch ya' next time.

 

Competition Fabricating No2-Part2

 Greetings. Whats buzzin in 'The Old Sidevalve Bar'? You may ask my EU sausage loving friends because Boris (well known for his own sausage activity in 10 Downing St) is trying best he can to get supplies across the channel and into your countries. Your part if you want these mouth watering meaty delights is to keep the Russian gas turned on and pumping our way and stop siding with the Frenchies on a bit of a lost submarine deal... and don't mention the fish!!!

Covid19......only 1000+ deaths this past week......... at that rate getting the Blauwe Muis into a Flanders Field before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on my door is stacking more odds for it happening every day that passes..

Keep going Alb......Don't be blubbering and letting politics and the state of the N.H.S. affect your Vintafaking mojo!!!.

Oh yes, the race exhaust. So, the technical detail is as follows for the first bend. I have to make it fit the cylinder exhaust port flange that is 43.80mm external and 41.00mm internal. My purchase bend is 41.00mm external and 39.5mm internal. A small stretch with my newly ordered ebay expander and it will slip on/in like a glove? Bought it more than long enough as I thought the off-cuts could be useful later?

 

Whoa !!! Hang on !!! Mr Koen from Oilyracer base camp is soon on the trans-channel wireless. 'Alb old chap, there's nuffin but bad press regarding the chinese expanders...Made of chinkisteel they are. Not enough strength to expand a balloon.. 

Now what?. I'm gonna make some slash cuts in the bend, hopefully stretch the slashes wider and fill in with Stainless Mig weld..  Then re-work it till it never happened... It's an idea, stay tuned.

 

Well? It is welded! 

 Inside and out!!!!

 

Risking 'White Finger' - But gonna be worth it! Aren't de-burring bits brilliant!!

Hey this is looking like it could work but don't get giddy yet. There's a long way to go and if those Frenchies turn our electric and gas power off (fish war threat over a few shrimps) the welding and grinding will come to an abrupt halt. Who'd have thought politics could Top Trump 'Vintafaking' ?

C'est l'heure d'une homebrew beere. De bas en haut mon ami. 

Stand up for ya rights - Et le Camembert nous le repandre sur la Jacob cracker

So, Stay tuned for more 'Vinafaking' action et le Franglais parlez.  

Vive le 'Sidevalve Bar and all who drink in it!