Double 0 Soul

No idea re- shrinkage, are they non-wash and unsanforised? Lovely colour 😍

Hmm.. if it was me, i'd scan each page individually, crop them for neatness, enhance the images and post them into their own thread... just sayin'

Amazing sky this morning on my ride to work.. Last part... .. i got the runner system and the pattern finished, this is the top half, the exothermic sleeves will fit over these locators, all of the flanges have a machined outer face, so the heads can be cut off and the remnants will be machined away, the only head which needs a bit of grinding / shaping will be the small pad over the body junction.. but better safe than sorry. I've put some padding behind the flange so the head can feed through the flange and into the body, there is no reason why this bit of padding can't be part of the finished cast part.. ..there are fancy equations to calculate the modulus but in layman's (is layman an anogram of maynard?) terms, you're fitting imagined spheres into what will become the casting.. so something like this (it's actually more like a compressed tennis ball shape) the center of the largest sphere will remain hot / be the last part to cool, so this will feed the casting, the neck has a similar volume to the flange, the sphere in the exo sleeve is smaller but the sleeve should keep it equally hot.. this boring ass mofo explains it a bit better.. Thanks for the interest everyone.. so who's next to explain what they do between sufu posts..?

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You could shove an old leather belt through your pasta maker.

Looks amazing.. my mum is trying to grow lemons.. sadly they still look like small nobbly limes Sadly not, i'd love an apprentice to pass my knowledge onto.. but i would never recommend it as a career choice.. there is no future in pattern making, 70% of everything i learned during my apprenticeship has next to no modern day application.. and probably 50% of those skills are non transferable to other sectors.. it's all dependent on a buoyant industrial sector and there is hardly any industry left in the UK, even here in Sheffield, the spiritual home of steel making. Just these last few months, British Steel (which incidentally, is a Chinese company) stopped producing steel while they transition from a polluting blast furnace to a more environmentally friendly electric arc furnace, this can only be a good thing but due to lack of planning, they've closed the site resulting in 2800 job losses, the new arc furnace will not be operational till 2030..so we're not producing steel, we're buying it in.. the knock on effect of this has devastated their suppliers, some of whom were my customers, good 3rd generation family businnesses .. it's just been a steady decline since the outsourcing of the 90s / victims of globalisation... few got richer, many got poorer. Secondly.. I've been quoting against machines for the last decade which has driven prices down so i have to work more hours to make the same amount of money.. Lastly, whatever time i spend training someone is time away from my job, when there are 8 other people producing work for 10hrs/day, if one of them spends 5hrs/day training an apprentice, the cost to your output as a company is negligible, but when you only have one person, that 5hrs/day will result in a 50% loss of production.. i'm not making enough money to shoulder it. Ikr.. it's a 20min ride from home so many folks take the Peaks for granted.. when they're out there, they say "my god! this is incredible, we should do this every weekend.. 6mths later "we should go out to the Peaks we haven't done it for ages" .. I could watch boulderers all day @julian-wolf .. folks think it's just about slapping some chalk on your hands and climbing up a rock.. but they'll arrive, with numerous books, they'll find an unoccupied rock, pull out a book, sit down and study routes, pull out field notes and start making notes and sketches of where holds are.. then mime it out.. this is before they've even pulled on rock shoes

When i was around 14yrs old.. my dad had a Pools round, he would go around the neighbourhood collecting Pools coupons.. (folks gambling on the results of football matches).. one of the guys who played the Pools was a master pattern maker, my dad was always fascinated by his work, one day this guy asked if i would like a Saturday morning job in the patternshop, sweeping up, fetching the sandwiches, painting / finishing patterns.. Did I ever!.. I got paid £6 for 4hrs work and a pay rise to £8 for 4hrs Saturday morning in year 2... It was awesome!. When i was 16 i did work experience there and the guy who owned the business offered me a 6yr apprenticeship as a master pattern maker when i left school.. i did go to tech college 1 day/wk for a short period but due to my experience, my abilities were probably a bit too advanced for the course.. in hindsight, i should have been a dentist There was 8 other master pattern makers in the workshop all with different skill sets / fields of expertise.. one was a master woodcarver, i worked alongside him for the first 12months as his apprentice, we carved restoration work after the fire at York Minster, mainly the decorative bosses wich fit between the roof trusses in the ceiling.. I think this was their way of familiarising me with hand tools.. These were old school gentleman patternmakers who would arrive at work in a shirt and tie, hair immaculate, waistcoat and jacket, their sandwiches in a briefcase.. (a bit like the faux instagram woodworkers you see today) .. they would hang their jacket on a coat hanger, roll up their shirt sleeves and wear a brown smock over the top.. they were doing it to keep their clothing clean / make it last.. unlike me, i never wore a smock. ...anywho, during my 6yr apprenticeship, i worked alongside each specialty craftsman for 1yr.. we made pattern equipment for JCB and Tarmac, I worked for the MOD, i made tank tracks and prototyped all the cast parts for the Typhoon Eurofighter.. i made cast iron street furniture (i still do) i even made a keel for a racing catamaran In the days before 3D computer modeling, i did a lot of product development modeling, where i would make an exact copy of a Morphy Richards toaster for instance from 3d drawings, before funding for the upcoming product range was made available, they would have a tactile representation of their product made, people could make decisions regarding aesthetics at this stage.. I also developed the Black & Decker Mouse, I spent a year learning how to make fibreglass car body panels and fairground rides.. Topographical model making and such.. but 60% of our work was traditional pattern making / engineering products.. stuff for petrochemical, offshore drilling, pumping systems. The only guy there who didn't wear a brown smock was Tom, who wore a blue boiler suit... he'd previously worked in a foundry as a methods engineer, which is where i get my metallurgy knowledge regarding runner systems / feeding castings.. (nowadays it's all modeled on the computer) at this time i was in the heart of Sheffield's bustling industrial quarter surrounded by Braun Medical, Stanley Tools, Record Ridgeway, Eclipse Magnetic..ect When i finished my apprenticeship, i was the youngest fully time served Master Patternmaker in South Yorkshire.. and 30yrs later, i still am. The company i did my apprenticeship for.. moved into larger premises owned by a multi-national engineering company (Holtec) it meant we got 100% of their work while remaining an independent mastershop.. it was a good move.. but as the older patternmakers approached retirement, the company owner was diagnosed with cancer, his only daughter was in the banking sector so i always thought the business was coming my way.. (so did he) alas, it wasn't to be, Holtec aggressively took over, there was nothing i could do.. they said it was always their plan after the owner retired, it was their premises, 70% of the work was theirs, they offered me a managerial role so i decided to take the remaining 30% of our customer base and left.. within 3yrs the UK arm of their operation was closed. Since 2011 i've been part of a project, to upscale and fully automate a process which was traditionally small scale lab work, it's a means to extract, impurities from crude or natural gas, recycle the impurities while purifying the product.. it was so successful they got a Kings award for innovation, the production is vast.. i started by building single person pneumatic work stations, it worked so it's been upscaled into large scale factory format.. my part of the project was to develop a way of producing the shapes, their part of the project was to upscale so the product is now produced by the tonne and shipped worldwide instead of by the bucketload.. The first meeting we had in the boardroom, it was me and all their hierarchy.. the owner of the company stood up, pointed around the table and said "I can do all of your jobs (stopped at me and said) but i can't do his, which is why he's here" ..

Agreed..

Much better looking too.. The bike not cheap's arse.. but there again, it is a Crossfire

Typical Sunday for me.. Rode up to Burbage Hoped over the road to Stanage Ahhh! Noooooooooo Boulderers out in force enjoying the sunshine.. they had frizbee and everything Up to Stanage Pole and down to Redmires ..around the reservoir.. up to Lodgemoor, through the Mayfield Valley and home ..cleaning my bike with a can of Ting, featuring mud splattered JMC sweatshirt

I can almost feel the sense of job satisfaction emitting from the screen

My god! .. essentially, that's what i wrote on the previous page but without the pictures Fk this shit.. it took me hours to compose.. i'm using copilot for my sufu posts in future..

Thanks Martin.. at least you know where your next PowerPoint is coming from.. The pattern making industry is in ruins.. nobody makes patterns this way anymore apart from me.. folks invested heavily in cnc / robotic arm type pattern machinery which are programmed to cut this kind of thing out of modelboard with zero practical skills.. but a couple of £100k machines +£20k every few years to keep the software package up to date takes a lot of funding so those machines need to be running 6 days/wk.. to pay back the investment. alas, there isn't enough pattern work around anymore in the UK.., it's usually done in China or India for a fraction of the cost.. we still need the components but we can meet environmental targets by shipping castings across the ocean.. somehow? Folks only call me when they're up shit creek and they need a component like.. yesterday, or they have issues with accuracy / tolerance or QC.. This is the first pattern i've made for ages but atleast with my machines being stuck in the 1980s and valueless i'm not going bankrupt while they're not getting used.

Has anyone posted Bobson yet? I think it's the same brand that used to be called Earth Culture back in the 90s

I've been doing a bit of old school pattern making this week.. I started making a pattern for a valve angle body.. it's going to be cast in WCB grade carbon but because molten metal is weird shit.. i'm making the outside of the pattern in 1/38 contraction (for every 38mm i will add 1mm) to allow for the shrinkage so when the casting cools it will be dimensionally correct at standard.. but the inside of the casting will be made at 1/48 contraction because internal dimensions behave differently to external dimensions even though it's the same material the flanges being thicker tend to contract at 1/38 on the outer face but will contract at 1/60 between the flanges.. it's fkin nuts how liquid metal behaves but i haven't got time to explain metallurgy 101 today.. Started making the core / internal shape.. the wall thickness of the casting needs to be 15mm so all these allowances i'm making need to be made wrong at this stage but absolutely correct when cast.. It's made in halves and doweled together using perfectly round silver steel pegs Dusty Warehouse 506 repro in action ..finish building the former / positive which creates the (negative) internal shape for the liquid to flow through the pump Both halves fit together.. the pink is car body filler, it's easier to create radius's and developments.. ie- the plywood disc is a diameter and the pine is a diameter.. but once the pine has been cut at 45 degrees, it ceases to be a diameter on the angled face, so one needs blending from one shape into the other.. i'm just trying to feel how the liquid would flow through the pump without restricting flow rate.. of creating turbulence at high pressure.. ..half of the core on the joint of half of pattern to double check the wall thicknesses.. this will make more sense on the sketches at the bottom.. The core needs to be very slightly smaller than the print (the print doesn't actually exist, it's just there to support/position the core within the cavity which the pattern will create in the mould) i've allowed 0.25mm around the radius for clearance.. too little and you're in danger of the core not fitting in or not being able to close the mould .. too much and you're 15mm wall thickness will be out of tolerance ..made a few plywood discs, just by drilling a hole through 6x pieces of 1.5mm ply, then using the drill to spin them on the sander.. Set half of the core box former up on a perfectly flat board.. used the discs^ to mount the dowels, build a frame around and cast up in liquid PU resin.. ..once cured, build the other half onto the joint uising the silversteel location pegs.. cast that half too.. once cured, split the mould, and make some levers to gently extract the former.. creating vibration by tapping on the joint with a small hammer will help.. the sand core will just fall out, because it's heavier.. ..lift out the former to leave a perfect resin mould to create the sand core.. ..these are examples of smaller sand cores.. in the foundry, sand is mixed with amine and then blasted into a core box under pressure on a core blowing machine, you can see the line left by the joint line of the corebox brass vents are inserted to allow the air out as the sand/amine mix comes in.. the metal dowel locates both halves of box together to blow the core ..two halves of corebox with a hole in the top to blow sand through ..clipped together with suitcase clips so the sand doesn't blow out of the joint. ..now i have to start mounting the pattern on a male and female joint, to allow the two halves to perfectly locate together in the foundry.. .. then i have to use my metallurgy skills again to create a runner system to allow the metal to flow into the mould.. and feed the casting.. ie- the thick flanges will stay hot longer than the 15mm wall thickness.. but if the 15mm wall cools too quickly, it will contract while the flanges are still liquid which creates small cracks at the point where the 15mm wall meets the flange and the very expensive casting will fail radiography. This is an exothermic sleeve which keeps the metal hot to feed the casting .. so theory is this.. half of the pattern is mounted on a male picture frame joint.. i build the female frame around this platform to ensure a perfect fit for the other half.. i've drawn on part of the runner system with the exothermic sleeve ..a moulding frame is put around the pattern and filled with sand / amine ..the pattern is removed and the sand core drops in.. located by the prints ..the bottom half of sand mould is then dropped on top to close the mould, encasing the core and leaving a cavity / space between the sand moulds and the internal sand core.. ..the whole thing is turned over and metal is cast into the runner system.. filling the cavity with what will become our casting.. when cooled, the sand is broken away, the runner system is cut off with a radiac cutter, the casting then goes to radiography to makes sure it's sound, the flanges are machined up to allow other parts of the pumping system to be cleanly bolted to it .. and off it goes, on it's merry way..

Turtle neck?.. pair of New Balance?.. like Steve Jobs innit

Me neither Charlie.. can't remember the last time i watched TV.. don't know why i even pay for a TV license The documentary is from 2014.. there is a terrible quality copy on youtube or an equally terrible quality copy on dailymotion with subs. I'll pm you the link to the copy i watched when i get home.. it's really good! edit- Here you go @Dr_Heech .. this one is ok quality

They were out in the Peaks.. i drew them a route map on a scrap of paper in the pub, they were asking how many miles / feet of elevation.. ect, I dunno, the Mam Tor loop usually takes me 5hrs.. they sent me some photos of the hills they'd ridden up (they live on the south coast where everything is pancake flat) .. They made it to the Millstone in Hathersage stopped for a pub lunch (halfway round the loop) then decided to head back.. cycle computer said they'd traveled 19miles with a 2150ft climb, impressive for middle age folks who're not used to riding hills In comparison.. i felt too hungover to eat my breakfast.. went to Tesco at 1pm to buy recovery food, a prepacked bacon sandwich on white bread, a tub of pasta, pesto, pine nuts and parmesan, a danish and a can of Dr Pepper Last night i watched Atari :Game Over .. the story and fall out of the collapse of the 1980s gaming industry.. (it's really good, even for folks with zero interest in vintage gaming consoles) .. then i had an early night

Absolutely! .. i'm not great with large department stores at the best of times.. i haven't been in one for more than a decade.. my Ikea experience was just after lockdown.. apart from my daily hour of exercise.. i hadn't been out of the house for ages but i'd just made the boy a desk for his bedroom and he needed an office type swivel chair which looked like bedroom furniture rather than office furniture, not something i really wanted to buy online.. I'd seen one at M&S and one at Ikea so we went to try them for size when restrictions were lifted.. I was already feeling pretty apprehensive about it.. when we got there my kid was hungry because he didn't have any breakfast so he and my mrs went to the cafe in Ikea while i went to find the chairs.. "ring me when you've done" said i. When i got into the store.. everything was taped off due to 2m covid restrictions.. i wandered around but couldn't find the chairs or (because of covid restrictions again) any staff to ask, my phone signal was zero so i couldn't call the family, i wandered around for what seemed like hours then i heard my name on the tannoy saying "Double 0.. please go to such and such department" but i had no clue where that department was? I didn't even know what department i was in . Abandoned the trolley, and started retracing my steps back to the entrance but they force you through the store and through an unmanned till point.. when i eventually got back to the entrance the door wouldn't open.. it was one way with a sensor.. had a bit of a mini freakout and went into the loading bay area to ask for help.. a friendly driver took me into the carpark and i went to sit in the car, got a phone signal, rang my mrs and asked them to meet me outside.. they said we're in the chair department, "come back in and have a look at these chairs".. but i couldn't bear it.. we ended up ordering one from John Lewis..

Tyred and emotional.. I only drank 3.5 pints.. before I went out my kid said he’d had half a pint of something called Bad Kitty porter at the local micro bar when it was his friends birthday so I had a pint of that before we walked up to the pub.. it was delicious but one was enough, I didn’t want to mix my drinks but the only porter they had at the pub was plum.. it was revolting! .. like Guinness and blackcurrent, ugh! so I reverted to Guinness, now I feel terrible.. my problem is I rarely go to the pub so when I do I’m like a kid in a sweet shop.. Im not short of offers but ... Remember when I had that mini freakout when I got lost in Ikea? and couldn’t find my way out.. I’ve had a bit of social anxiety since then.. when I’m out, I’m fine/enjoying myself but the days before Im thinking of any excuse not to go..

Impressive!.. the only coffee wash too, that was an obscure one. Looks like tg might be queen of sufu My god i'm hungover.. my bike buddies are doing my Mam Tor ride today, i could barely ride to work..

The last time i went out with them.. i spent the following day face down on my desk with drool running out of my mouth.. i was so hungover, i had to buy a bacon and egg sarnie.. then i took one bite and couldn't manage any more..

I'll be walking.. it's just at the top of my road, they will be though, they've got an airbnb above the buddhist meditation center

I'm going out for a few pints tonight with bike forum people.. in your face denim forum people! Don't wait up...

Check the symmetry of the right heel.. No way these are Nike Tailwind.. listed on eBay.. 100% seller, NIB with no legit check