Home made auto-sizer.

[pretzelxx]

That looks awesome!! I really need to get casting...

[jmorris]

Looks good. Like the die rack

[Gremlin460]

Alrighty fellas, the end is in sight, I returned from a successful hunt with new poly slides.

I mentioned to a old guy in the factory what I was doing, and how I was looking for a specific thickness. Over the phone a young fella had said they could help but thickness was as far as he knew 16mm.
16 would have been fine, but 17 would have been ideal.
This older fella, nods a few times as I explain what I require, say's to me, just hang on a second, and disappears into the dark corners of the factory...

3 mins later he is back with this HUGE chunk of material, slides it into a machine twiddles a few knobs and this chunk disappears and reappears in a long 50x90mm square bar.
Is that what you looking for, I stammered yes, kinda, sorta, I wanted it 90x50mm but 17mm thick.. not 90x50x 2 feet long!.
Yes I know that sonny he says, now we slice it however thick you want!!

A few minutes later I walk out with a arm full of 90x50x17 poly-duba-lecky whatsit materal!!.

So one more component to aquire and that's us on the home run.

Tonight I will draught out a manual on how to assemble this and fine tune it. Kinda getting excited myself , I love building things.... especially things that work!!.

[6bg6ga]

Alrighty fellas, the end is in sight, I returned from a successful hunt with new poly slides.

I mentioned to a old guy in the factory what I was doing, and how I was looking for a specific thickness. Over the phone a young fella had said they could help but thickness was as far as he knew 16mm.
16 would have been fine, but 17 would have been ideal.
This older fella, nods a few times as I explain what I require, say's to me, just hang on a second, and disappears into the dark corners of the factory...

3 mins later he is back with this HUGE chunk of material, slides it into a machine twiddles a few knobs and this chunk disappears and reappears in a long 50x90mm square bar.
Is that what you looking for, I stammered yes, kinda, sorta, I wanted it 90x50mm but 17mm thick.. not 90x50x 2 feet long!.
Yes I know that sonny he says, now we slice it however thick you want!!

A few minutes later I walk out with a arm full of 90x50x17 poly-duba-lecky whatsit materal!!.

So one more component to aquire and that's us on the home run.

Tonight I will draught out a manual on how to assemble this and fine tune it. Kinda getting excited myself , I love building things.... especially things that work!!.

So for us people not used to mm it would be roughly 3.5"x 2"x.669 ?

[Gremlin460]

50x90x17 is roughly 1.9685"x3.54331"x0.669291" LOL

So you got it right.. bout time you swaped to metric.. (ducks and runs)

[jmorris]

. bout time you swaped to metric..

Funny, that is not a larger concern than global warming here on most network stations....

[Gremlin460]

Just so you guys don't think I have forgotten you.. Here is the first finished Frame Painted Charcoal.



Another angle........



And one next to another raw frame, so far I have 7 frames completed.



The poly slides need a bit of massage to fit to my satisfaction. I need a router table for that, I don't have one so I shall make one tomorrow, and all be well. Everything I need material wise I have, other than mounting hardware.
I shall supply all nessesary hardware for mounting the press, and bolts to bolt it down with. It will also have the new pin and associated stuff for the press operation. It will even have 4 spare machine screws with it aswell.
The dies in the picture do not arrive with the AS/2 sorry.

[Ausglock]

Good work, Grem.

[Any Cal.]

Those look really good.

[Gremlin460]

Thank you both, I try my best..

[6bg6ga]

50x90x17 is roughly 1.9685"x3.54331"x0.669291" LOL

So you got it right.. bout time you swaped to metric.. (ducks and runs)

Our system is much easier to understand. 1.9685= 2" nominal 3.54331= 3 1/2" 0.669291= either 5/8" or 11/16" either will work.

[Ausglock]

I grew up learning imperial at school and then metric after about 1970.
I work in the timber industry and we use both systems.
EG: 4"x2" 5 at 3.6 metres.
I also use both when measuring things to cut.
EG" 5'3" and 4mm.
It works for me...

[jmorris]

They are looking very good. How much are you asking for them again?

[Gremlin460]

$188 +$10 for colour choice and postage, includes most hardware, press conversion pin.. its all been listed before.

[pretzelxx]

Shipping is only 10?? I can do that all day!

[jmorris]

No, $10 is if you want him to go buy a special color.

That's a lot of extra work for the same price but I like it. What is a ballpark on shipping to the US?

[Gremlin460]

No, $10 is if you want him to go buy a special color.

That's a lot of extra work for the same price but I like it. What is a ballpark on shipping to the US?

I had a 5 pound bag of SS media shipped out earlier this year and shipping for that was $33 , haven't weighed a finished unit yet, but be darn close I figure.

The box to ship these is 200x200x300 ID. err sorry 7.874016"x7.874016"x11.811024" ( ) so not a big box.

[SSGOldfart]

Humm $33.00 is about 1/2 what I was expecting??

[Gremlin460]

#1 is done, Just a minor tweak or two, then I shall give it a final coat and weigh it. I had it done yesterday but then had a idea to assist in setting them up so tore it all down again.

all the other frames are done, now just to assemble all the workings. Each one is slightly different because they are hand made and not punched out of a million dollar factory.

I was going to call these things AS/2 HOG as in Hand-built by a Old Guy. The wife not so keen on the name.. anyone else have any idea's?

[pretzelxx]

If you call it "The AS/2 HOG" I think it will work, it has a ring to it...