Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 230RN on September 21, 2021, 08:51:14 AM
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https://youtu.be/nXxd5OduPv8 (12:36)
Misc Mfring processes. Fascinating for anyone who's even just hacksawed one piece of metal into two pieces. My top accomplishment was building a small double acting horizontal steam engine using an MG brake cylinder for the cylinder.
ETA: Changed thread title from "MFRING" to "MANUFACTURING" for clarity.
Terry, 230RN
One of four or five engines I've buillt, kinda blurred 'cause it was captured from a video while running.
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Oh, manufacturing. I thought this was going to be a Samuel L. Jackson thread.
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Oh, manufacturing. I thought this was going to be a Samuel L. Jackson thread.
Sam Jackson is now making jewelry.
"All you MFers need to come down to my MFing jewelry store and buy a MFring for your girl!"
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See if you can get some knife sharpening straps on that wheel.
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Sam Jackson is now making jewelry.
"All you MFers need to come down to my MFing jewelry store and buy a MFring for your girl!"
Oh, OK, now I understand the confusion from the initial thread title of "MFRING." And the jewelry joke.
Didja like my steam engine? I also built model cannons.
Terry
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Almost like we have a rampant acronym problem around here.
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Almost like we have a rampant acronym problem around here.
An R.A.P? I don't think they exist.
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Oh, OK, now I understand the confusion from the initial thread title of "MFRING." And the jewelry joke.
Didja like my steam engine? I also built model cannons.
Terry
Is nice!
Ever do a rocket of any sort?
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Is nice!
Ever do a rocket of any sort?
Oh, yeah, just Estes level, and the only real machining there was cutting nose cones out of wood for one I built myself... paper and cardboard, about two feet tall. I made a wood lathe tool rest and mounted it on my Atlas (Sears, Craftsman) cross slide just for that.
The rocket turned out to be just like my one and only free-flight 1/2A model airplane on which I spent many hours: crash or no recovery. I guess by now the only remaining part of the rocket is that nose cone somewhere up in Eldorado Canyon from before they made it a Park and eliminated all fun activities.
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A D engine, duct tape and a hunting arrow make a dandy bottle rocket or so I’ve heard. And don’t say tape isn’t MFring, come to the south and see it in its glory.
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You know something? I'm wondering if a bunch of D engines, and small hunting arrows, in a nice array... could make a sort of "grid square eraser" for demoralizing a human wave attack...
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Certainly be a bit un-nerving. We launched them with angle iron, max range unknown, were disappearing off of our property.
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Oh, rockets, kgbsquirrel, I almost forgot.
As a kid I made rockets out of the cardboard tubes they used on clothes hangers with plaster nozzles which blew off >50% of the time, with homemade black powder. Saltpeter from a local butcher, no questions asked, sulphur from a drugstore, always asked what for, always said my mom wanted it to repel mice and rats, but transaction completed with a funny look, confessed this sin of lying next Saturday at Confession.
I quit when one landed still smoking in the rain gutter of the house next door and I sweated it out for a half hour hoping I didn't start a fire up there.
But, no fire, no Sin, no Confession.
Terry "I wasn't a half bad little boy, but I wasn't a half good one either," 230RN
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Certainly be a bit un-nerving. We launched them with angle iron, max range unknown, were disappearing off of our property.
Next time tape a chem light "tracer" to it. =D
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Next time tape a chem light "tracer" to it. =D
Switched to C motors, ballistic arc put them about 100 or better yards down range.