Well, thank you all for giving me your views and the benefit of you experiences - this is really helpful.
I'm pretty new to the job, and I certainly don't want to upset him - but I do want to make things safe and I find as soon as you declare safe areas in a workshop, the standards start...
Hello all,
I've been given the task of carrying out the above job, I have a clean workshop floor as my canvas. Trouble is, my Line Manager wants in on the task and has come up with what I think is a silly idea, that's to mark out 'safe areas' around the machine tools, where you don't need to...
I could seal it with a stainless steel bolt. I didn't know I'd have to rotate the magnet to get the plug out, why's that? Can't I just make the plug so that it will pull out?
Thanks,
Nick.
Hi DF,
All good points, the heating will definately be uniform, so no problems there.
Yes, I'd need to get the plug out but I suppose a looseish press fit would do to keep it in. Then I was thinking I could tap a thread in the plug and use some kind of puller to take it out.
What do you...
Thank you all - what a great response.
Sorry I've not been around, busy family life at the moment and I see to get more time to myself when I'm at work (and that ain't much)!
desertfox, KENAT, I'm not sure what type of PTFE it is, we just used a spare bit we had lying around but I'll be able...
Hi guys, thanks for the links - haven't looked at them in great detail yet but I will do, they look good to me.
Tmoose, it's a plug for the back of a magnetically coupled impeller drive that's being used with slurry. Solids build up in the magnet and I want to stop that by plugging it. The bit...
Hello all,
Well, what a great place this is.
I did a level 3 City & Guilds course in Mechanical Production Engineering years and years ago and I'm trying to remember how to work out a press fit dimension for a plug.
The plug will be made out of PTFE and fit a hole of 41.5mm.
I remember bits...