Bender The Bubbler Build Thread

[Milky]

Let's hope so Linny, I'm very hopeful . I've smashed a few glasses/bottles in the last 12 weeks & that's not from being drunk.... Ok maybe a couple..

[Sam.]

Well, just got outta the surgeons office with a date of 21st Jan for surgery. Radial nerve tension release, a tendon debridement with a fore up tendon cut and tuck. All this they hope that 1 in 5 get total pain free recovery and the rest get up to 75 percent pain free coupled with physiotherapy afterwards.
So bring on the 21st Jan 2014!
Now it's time to get my ASS into gear and make a move on this fucking build! Gotta get Bender at least together before the 21st Jan. I'll do my boiler if I can but I'll just focus on he column!

[Kimbo]

I just read my post, it's a cut and tuck not a c ;-) ;-) t and tuck, fuck that sounds like it would hurt Haha!

[djfrestyla]

Milky,
Good luck with it matey, hope they can fix your problem.
I am on the mend at the moment from a shoulder re-construction, waited 10 months after I had ruptured 3 ligaments in the rotor cuff, and broke the long arm of the biceps, this was all caused from over use of that arm, trying to compensate for a fused wrist on the right arm.
I was in so much pain before I had surgery that I was lucky to get 2 hrs sleep of a night, couldn't lift my arm, couldn't open a beer.
I Felt relief as soon as I woke up from surgery, didn't want painkillers, as my pain had dropped from a 10 back to near non existent, went back to work 4 Hrs after getting out of hospital.
Now I am sick of pushing a pen all day (restricted duties), and have started doing some light weights, to get this thing back to 100%.
I was told that it would take near 12 months to get full range of motion back, but I got to that stage in 6 weeks.
I hope you go as well as I have, its a hard slog for a bit, but worth it.

[Milky]

Thanks mate. I hope that you can get back on the job soon and stop working that pen! I had to do that last op. I'm very hopeful for this op and if your results are anything to go by it could very well be the same with my procedure. I can't wait, I'm so excited!

I haven't had a chance to work on my own still. We shut up shop for Xmas thus week so I was trying to finish stuff I've had lined up for a while, including summies bubble PC & RC water lines (SS to copper) and a copper lid for Linnys small boiler. Both of which I couldn't finish as workshop got shut earlier than expected. You'll see Linnys boiler and still finished soon & it's going to be a ripper!

Plan is to flange my modules, flange and solder 3" sight glasses and have it all polished in the first week back from Xmas.

Hopefully I can make some headway on my bubble plates too. Just trying to work out a neat way to cut the bubble cap slots rather than use a grinder in a vice. Hmm

[djfrestyla]

I done mine with a grinder & vice, using a 1mm cutting disk, took about 2 min to do each bubble cap

[Milky]

Made some modules today. Just one more module for the plate and one for the RC to flange then it's onto the 3" copper for the sight glasses.

I decided to use the Jenny for roller from my first attempt for my flanges. This got them all to the exact same height and flange diameters and then I flattened the flanges in the pan brake folder. Test the square on the marking out table and there I have it, 3 exactly the same dimension modules.

[Milky]

What's done so far.

[Smbjk]

Well done milky. Looking good so happy that you are back on the wagon. Will be looking with interesting :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[1 2many]

Keep the ball rollin Milky looking good . :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Milky]

Thanks guys. I'm happy to have started up again and will keep posting photos. I'm as keen to get this done as you all are to see the progress!

[Milky]

Here are some photos of how I rolled the flanges in the Jenny.

[Canadoz]

Looks absolutely awesome man. Being far from a trained metalworker let alone a metalurgist, I'm curious, would the pinching pressure from the wheel and striker used to crease the seam for the bend tend to thin/weaken the metal more than would bending it over without creasing it first? (i.e. manually such as those of us without equipment at hand must do?)

I'm thinking of how paper weakens when creased using pressure as opposed to simply bent while allowing it to maintain a slight radius at the bend.

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Not that I imagine it would ever be enough to cause an issue, more just curiosity of how things work.

[Milky]

To force that is required while turning this Jenny roller whilst putting upwards pressure on the piece of 4" to get it to bend is massive! It creases yes, but it also work hardens as it's rolled. When I take it out of the roller it has work hardened that much that I can't push the piece up vertically any further as it's too hard. That's why I take it out and tap it to 90 degrees with a hammer.

I annealed each end first with the oxy. Couldn't do it otherwise as it would be too hard.

I'll take a close up picture of the flanges at the pinch point and post it tomorrow.

[Milky]

It really doesn't pinch it that much thinner. But it tapers each end in. That's where the metal goes, it gets pulled in by the force of pushing vertically as I roll it to achieve a 90 degree bend.

[Canadoz]

Cool beans. Thanks for the info. I'm looking forward to seeing your finished product very much.

[Smbjk]

Looking nice milky. Great to see different approaches to builds :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Yummyrum]

Looking nice milky. Great to see different approaches to builds :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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There's amazing metal working gear out there that I recon most of us have never seen...but its been shown to us on this forum..


Great work Milky ..

[Milky]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Didn't get much else done. Was hoping to get the 3" sight glasses cut flanged & Soldered but didn't manage. It's all good. Plenty of time coming up to order parts, hoard materials & get everything I need together to smash a boiler build & finish my bubbler in the second half of this year.

We have a lot of cool little toys at my work that's for sure!

[dogbreath vodka]

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Just sayin'


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Well done mate

DBV