remmington
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Post by remmington on Jul 6, 2021 13:35:46 GMT 1
It is not very portable - it does work - it has all the tooling/extras with it - and it is mine!  Another local small engineering company gone to the wall due to Covid - he giving up his workshop - going contracting - (fitting in a food factory). |
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Post by rhyds on Jul 6, 2021 13:51:14 GMT 1
I feel we should give you something as recognition of this momentous event!  |
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Post by chippie on Jul 6, 2021 16:26:12 GMT 1
View AttachmentIt is not very portable - it does work - it has all the tooling/extras with it - and it is mine! Another local small engineering company gone to the wall due to Covid - he giving up his workshop - going contracting - (fitting in a food factory). Are you saying you are shutting up shop and going contracting?  A sad day if you are....but hey you gotta make a living somehow.....Good luck if this true...👍 And I wish you well... |
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Post by remmington on Jul 6, 2021 16:49:53 GMT 1
View AttachmentIt is not very portable - it does work - it has all the tooling/extras with it - and it is mine! Another local small engineering company gone to the wall due to Covid - he giving up his workshop - going contracting - (fitting in a food factory). Are you saying you are shutting up shop and going contracting? A sad day if you are....but hey you gotta make a living somehow.....Good luck if this true...👍 And I wish you well... No the lad where I bought the eroder from is giving up - I am not - we still alive and kicking (just! ) |
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Post by studabear on Jul 6, 2021 18:37:36 GMT 1
I'm intrigued about what a spark eroder does, I understand it can remove broken fixings?
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Post by remmington on Jul 6, 2021 18:47:04 GMT 1
I'm intrigued about what a spark eroder does, I understand it can remove broken fixings? Ex google... |
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Post by chippie on Jul 6, 2021 18:57:16 GMT 1
Are you saying you are shutting up shop and going contracting? A sad day if you are....but hey you gotta make a living somehow.....Good luck if this true...👍 And I wish you well... No the lad where I bought the eroder from is giving up - I am not - we still alive and kicking (just! ) Oh, ok,... Thats good then...👍😀 |
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Post by remmington on Jul 6, 2021 19:06:51 GMT 1
No the lad where I bought the eroder from is giving up - I am not - we still alive and kicking (just! ) Oh, ok,... Thats good then...👍😀 If I give up - I will be retiring early - not going to get a factory job. I must say thou - on a lighter note - all this lockdown - doing less - having less work has suited me no end. I really don't wanna go back to the high work load I was doing (Yeah the money is nice - but I have enjoyed doing a few cheap things with my spare time). The only upside to this pandemic thing is - it has made me think a bit - about how I spend my time (too much work). Maybe it is good thing....? |
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Post by Noberator on Jul 7, 2021 17:45:21 GMT 1
No the lad where I bought the eroder from is giving up - I am not - we still alive and kicking (just! ) 👍😀  |
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Post by Karl on Jul 7, 2021 21:46:23 GMT 1
Brilliant
Hopefully get to use it on something
Trouble is I guess not much good if you can’t remove the components off the car which have the broken bolt or stud etc
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Post by Karl on Jul 7, 2021 21:53:44 GMT 1
Maybe you could on purpose snap something and make a little video for us
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Post by Karl on Jul 7, 2021 21:56:15 GMT 1
I called a mobile glow plug/ injector puller specialist the other day
For a Fiat ducato motorhome
Very impressed
Didn’t fancy having a go myself and screwing the head
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Post by valhalla on Jul 8, 2021 0:15:50 GMT 1
I feel we should give you something as recognition of this momentous event! View AttachmentWhat do you give the man who has everything? |
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Post by rhyds on Jul 8, 2021 7:47:56 GMT 1
I feel we should give you something as recognition of this momentous event! View AttachmentWhat do you give the man who has everything? A Spark Eroder! |
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Post by valhalla on Jul 8, 2021 23:27:13 GMT 1
I really wish I had a spark-eroder right now!
Skoda Roomster Scout, 2013MY, locking wheel-fixings....and the key has been broken by a previous owner's neighbour, who tried to help her out by getting a leaking tyre off the car to go to the nearest tyre-centre.
Some c**t has done these up with an airgun, so even with a negative 250Nm of undoing torque on my special "getting the locking fixings off" toolset, there's no movement. Impact it to 300Nm, and the blades in the tool-head sheer off flush with the recess in the locking fixing head. The fixings themselves are too hard to touch with other sorts of tools, unless you consider the tools on the Bodgit & Leggit Youtube video of such a removal process on a BMW (I think - possibly a VW).
Spark-erosion would get these out.......
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