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adatesman
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philadelphia, pa
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Jan 21, 2011 - 02:28pm PT
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Update for Luke & Minerals-
Baby took an extra-long nap today, so got a lot done...
I still need to make the ring for inside the front of the grip, but the rest of the parts are finished:
And yup, that's 2 collet nuts for each drill. One of the changes I made was to make the collet semi-permanently fixed within the nut to make dropping/losing it more difficult, so I'll be sending one for each collet size.
I also just finished heat treating them and am including a pic on the off-chance that Weld_it has been following the thread (I get the impression he likes stuff like this). Here are the shanks coming up to temp (~1400degF at the moment) while being heated in an impromptu firebrick enclosure with a flame weeder:
Right now they're all sitting in an old toaster at ~500degF to temper, which should bring them down to ~HRC47.
Looks like I'm going to have tomorrow free, so I'll likely play with them a bit more and see if I can get the tool-less mod to work.
-a.
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Luke Malatesta
Big Wall climber
Moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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Aric. awesomness....excited to give it a run!
Great work.
Luke
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Luke Malatesta
Big Wall climber
Moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 29, 2011 - 09:34pm PT
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Well it has been ust a little over a year sence this project began. I have just about 1/2 of the 250 left +/- a few. Kind of cool reading all of the info posted in the forum.
Aric, Did you ever finish up any of your designs?
Luke
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