Website update: Gallery up and running.

Ernie Leimkuhler · 2004-06-04T15:50:18+00:00

OK guys the fateful day has arrived.My photo gallery is up and running.We worked out a few kinks over the last few days, and besides a fewgrammatical errors that I will see too soon, it is working fine.If you have any trouble with it, please email me. friend of mine, Mike Slass, gets credit for the gallery.He wrote a Liniux program that takes a file tree of images and textfiles and generates the entire gallery in HTML.So now you can see the Opera Dragon belch fireThe endless railing jobsand and even screen shots of me from "The Postman".Of course now I will end up with a HUGE bandwidth charge from Earthlink.

Jun 04, 2004 24 Replies

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Rob McDonald 22 years ago

Ernie,

Any chance you could put a pic of the compost tumbler in the dropbox? I've been thinking of making one and am looking for ideas.

Rob

Ernie Leimkuhler wrote in news:070620042229095501% snipped-for-privacy@stagesmith.com:

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GTO69RA4 22 years ago

Please forgive me for asking such an uninformed question, but how does a pneumatic shear handle the compressible nature of air? I'd imagine quite a "snap" after cutting smaller sections.

GTO(John)

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Ernie Leimkuhler 22 years ago

I couldn't find my camera when Mike came to get it, but I will get pictures soon.

I based mine off of the ones on this site.

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The one I built looks like their biggest model, but I used a 55 gallon Polyethylene drum ($20 new) for the main body and made an aluminum door frame and door for it. I made the support frame from 3/4" aluminum pipe so I could bend it in my hydraulic pipe bender. I used 6" nylon wagon wheels for the rollers, and all stainless steel bolts. My goal was to make sure that nothing could rust. Here in Seattle that is a consideration.

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Ernie Leimkuhler 22 years ago

There is enough resistance in the cylinder to prevent that and shearing materiels is more of a slice than a snap.

I picked the cylinder based on some simple calculations as to how much force weas needed. The shear easily cuts 1/8" aluminum, 16 ga steel and 18 ga Stainless steel. The rod shear hole handles 3/8" solid steel bar.

I had to shim the lower blade to get a good cut all the way out to the tips, but it works well now. The idea was to be able to cut large sheet by layingthe sheet on the work bench with and edge hanging off the table. Starting at one end I could work my way down the sheet to make 8 or 10 foot cuts.

It does work, but when possible I run over to my friends shop and his

10 foot power shear.

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