MANUFACTURING

[230RN]

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.

[French G.]

Oh, manufacturing. I thought this was going to be a Samuel L. Jackson thread.

[Fly320s]

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!"

[MechAg94]

See if you can get some knife sharpening straps on that wheel. 

[230RN]

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

[French G.]

Almost like we have a rampant acronym problem around here.

[Fly320s]

Almost like we have a rampant acronym problem around here.

An R.A.P?  I don't think they exist.

[kgbsquirrel]

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?

[230RN]

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.

[French G.]

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.

[Bogie]

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...

[French G.]

Certainly be a bit un-nerving. We launched them with angle iron, max range unknown, were disappearing off of our property.

[230RN]

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

[kgbsquirrel]

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. 

[French G.]

Next time tape a chem light "tracer" to it. 

Switched to C motors, ballistic arc put them about 100 or better yards down range.