Recent content by RuddyCrazy

Bought on of those minecaft pin pointers just so when dig up some quartz rocks a quick scan with can tell me if there's anything in there, out of that pile I had here only 1 showed a beeping so put it aside and that will be the first rock to go thru my crusher later in the year

yea my hopes went up when I saw a new post for this thread O'well back in the cave for me until the next quiz arrives

G'day Guy's, Well got it cut and fitted up this morning then life got in the way so this weekend I'll burn it all in as I do have a couple of tig welding jobs to do before I can change my caddy over to arc welding. Now that yellow lifting magnet is supposed to do 200kg's...

Jack I have repaired hammer mills throughout my life and the hammers are fixed on all the one's I have done, I have looked at a few homebuilt ones and yes most use floating ones. This design of mine where the hammers are just shy of the choccy blocks will crush anything in it's path period. Got...

G'Day Guy's, Well this arvo over a dram or 2 thinking about this hammer mill design I reckon putting choccy blocks on the ID of the housing to be the outer crushing part. Now this will decrease the diameter of the first draft and by going less over hang of the hammer will...

G'Day Guy's, Well with fog all around on a Sunday morning what better time to get my shed fire raging and use my old drawing machine to sketch out the idea of this hammer mill I've been thinking about for long time. I had 8 of these hammers that came out of concrete hammer...

G'Day Sand surfer by using a VFD on the hydraulic pump motor I can set the hertz to 100 then just a 5K pot can be used to dial in the speed as the VFD will adjust the rpm of the motor. Anyway found a 4-1/2" ali pulley to be the donor for the primary drive and as the pump had a tapered output...

G'Day Guy's, Well got that 10 hp motor off and found some 100x10mm flat bar so machined the 82.5mm hole hole for the hydraulic motor boss and drilled the mounting holes. Today I'll do some calc's to work out the ratios for the pulleys and that 3/4" lay shaft is going to get a...

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G'Day Guy's, Had a bit of a cleanup and got my shed fire going so it's nice and warm working today so here's a few pic's to get this started. The new hydraulic motor is sitting on the bed and thats the one I will be using as that old 10hp honda has had a good life and will...

G'Day Guy's, Well it has settled down on the home front as living on a 85 acre farm for 2 decades is a heap of stuff to remove and I told the ex missus don't expect me to help your side 🤣 Had a good look and think about this project and I do have all the gear here, now I...

Well just spent 2 days trying to get windows onto my shed computer after having enough of linuxcnc, no way would any of the iso's I wrote to a usb stick would boot yet linux would boot no problems. So decided to put linuxcnc back on and had the cnc controller going while the OS was installing so...

G'day Guy's, My marriage has broken down so got the big job of clearing the farm and this jaw crusher is going to get finished and I'll throw pic's up tomorrow of the current state of the crusher. I did update one of my old posts but on checking new posts that post didn't...

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