<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5072"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5162">Yes I agree ugly is okay, there is a saying </span>among motor bike guys " crome don't get you home" </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5072" dir="ltr">If you google ' Flange Facing Machine images, you will see what I built. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5072" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5072" dir="ltr">I never had a lego set :-)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450303643128_5072" dir="ltr">Hank</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:05 PM, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4552744960"><div><div dir="ltr">we need pics Hank! I cant visualise what you mean without it. And there is nothing wrong with it looking a bit ugly if it works! ... :)</div><div class="yiv4552744960gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv4552744960yqt3699191226" id="yiv4552744960yqtfd77224"><div class="yiv4552744960gmail_quote">On 16 December 2015 at 19:53, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv4552744960gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Pure PSUB philosophy - Hank exemplifies why Lego have it all wrong when they sell kids the exact set of blocks required for assembling a specific model.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>:)</div><div><br clear="none">Alec </div></div><div class="yiv4552744960gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv4552744960gmail_quote"><div><div class="yiv4552744960h5">On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="yiv4552744960gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;"><div><div class="yiv4552744960h5"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><div>Hi All,</div><div dir="ltr">For the last four days I have been building a flange facing machine. For those who don't know what that is, it is a portable lathe that clamps to a pipe or submarine to machine a flange. In my case the hatch land on my new deep diver. After welding the conical land ring into the hull it will twist from welding. The conical face will be distorted and that is no good. This machine I built will re-machine the face of the seat. After re-machining the land, I will then machine the hatch conical face in my lathe to match the seat. I will also machine the centre shaft of the hatch with a temporary bearing assembly, allowing me to mount the hatch so it rotates on the seat. This will allow me to lap the seat to a perfect fit. That is how a guy on a budget builds a deep diver hatch assembly. :-)</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">The flange facing machine is built entirely from stuff I have in inventory, the pivot bearing assembly is from a 3\4 ton truck reared, the clamps to hold it in place are tell-post rods, the drive is a hydraulic motor from my old launch cart, the power feed is a wheel chair drive motor, and the compound slide for the cutter is off my old lathe. I will power it off my mini excavator, so no point in building a hydraulic power pack.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I will be testing it on the mating ring for Gamma's escape pod.</div><span><font color="#888888"></font></span><div dir="ltr">Hank</div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div><span>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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