alright mate , where that come from, no need boast
also got worst user name on ES to :wink:
Hey I worked my whole life for this user name tag. Warning.. ES is NOT the only place where I have the worst user name. Lol.. Do NOT google "DogDipstick.. " unless you want to see dogs wearing lipstick.
However, look deeper, and you will see I have used this user name since about 2006 online. Dipstick was the toughest lil Jack Russel you might have ever known if you ever had the chance to meet him. He died in 2009.
I love what I do. I help stuff get built.
nicobie said:
Do you got pics? I'd love to see them.
I also love tools.
Sure what do you want to see? We use Glicks industrial salvage, buy our metal from them for our engines. Boilers. Ect. being an engineering co, we can pick and choose our metal at will and very cheaply ifit still has its heat numbers and whatnot on it, .. We can XRF it and now for sure ( so our boilers dont blow up) the metal composition and if we choose wisely we dont need xRay testing...or even certified welding to get the boiler tagged.
We use Catskill foundry for the brass and cast pouring, and we use Nolt metals for the plasma machining, big press brakes, and welding skills ( they build metal wheels perfectly round, those Mennonites). I can show you examples of stuff we have contracted for all of those.
For the plastic bending, that is kinda all me. I can show a pic of the bender if you like. It uses 220v strip heaters nestled in a stainless box with a hinged platform on top.. like a big plastic brake. with firebrick and fans to direct the temp, and a thermostat on the exit. It is why I got the into the CNC thing... I got a 2200$~ hobby grade CNC machine and I buy the plastics, and cut to shapes. Its damn fast and damn loud.
I recently built a shunt holder for a ebike.... It held one of those generic 200A shunts sandwiched in a few layers of Poly like a pcb and with a few AUX circuits for the bike, a charge fuse, and a 12v system input and output fusing. Worked well and held the shunt, CA connections, charge in fuse, 12v out fuse, and the DC/DC converter fuse. Then bolted on the ( zip tie too) circuits.
The CNC is a Bravoprodigy machine... and is absolutely amazing even with its med. speeds and power. Our tig is the 200A Vulcan from Harbor Freight.
i use it mainly to cut poly-carbonate boxxes accurately for battery cases.So I dont have to do it on the table saw and can do accurate complex repeatability. Inlaid bolt down lugs welded to copper plates and inlaid into the 1/4 inch thick plastic. The like. Built into battery boxxes I plan to sell ( and have sold). A CNC machine can cut 6 sides much more accurately than me with a table saw.. and I can be watching old episodes of Jerry Springer in the meanwhile. I also am very interested in cutting aluminum bus bars for car audio.. very lucritive market.. Like https://coventryind.com/.... I can do their 135$ bus bar set for 13.50$. All day. That is a plan of mine too with this machine.
What do you want to see? the bucks I have built? The cases? The Stressed skin panels carved out into cell holders? The battery cases for my BBSo2 or my Hubbie motor? The plexiglass bender? The Mennonite kid with the plasma machines next to his " acoustic" bicycle? Lol. I pass soooo many Mennonite kids round here ( Rural Pa) and they all look at me in awe of my hill smashing 1000w hub motor. As they pedal everywhere.
The most expensive engine we ever helped build? Lol. Yes. It was only a few hundred grand for that walking beam... but it was shiny. Got pics. We just built an electric fired steam boat ( with one of our engines) with an oil burner, I wired the whole thing. Got pics. I love building things.
We have two lathes also ( a 12" and a 14" ) ( well 4, actually if you count the mill and the minilathe) and a few big welders too. Alongside the presses and the assortment of normal tools everyone has. We are totally a boutique manufacturer of boilers for hobby steam use ( rated, tagged, insurable boilers).
Its a funny thing. The steam age is intertwined with the electric age... Power is power and before steam there was only watermills to make watts. I have had opportunity to see alot of the old "Electric rooms" next to the "boiler rooms" on old old ships.. pics, designs, ect. plans, restorations, ect... To see what they did in the dawn of the industrial age to make electric power.. from the big (steam) engines. The pioneers.
I love trying to copy them.