The Gustavus Thread

[gustavus]

For those that want to get that first troy ounce of gold without using chemicals, here is an excellent thread from the gold forum.

Credits: Kuma. Gold Refining Forum.com • View topic - Kuma's first go at recovering I.C. gold



Inside the black IC's from daughter cards and motherboards are tiny gold bonding wires. Once the chips have been pyrolyzed then crushed the gold can easily be literally panned from the ashes.

[gustavus]

Everyone likes to show off their new tools, these aren't new but awesome just the same.

The weird looking tool with the pneumatic cylinder is hung from an overhead tool balance to assist with the weight then using the foot operated valve you can cut heavy gauge copper wire with ease. The wire cutter is homemade.


Another piece of shop equipment i could never do with out, powered with a 220 volt single phase 3 HP motor. With a new full size blade installed I can cut 4 inch square tubing or solids.

[gustavus]

Reclaiming floor space, spent most of the weekend building that set of shelves. Now to sort things and find a proper space where I can remember where I put things. The door at the end of the shop is a full size slider with a man door installed.

The ARO pneumatic hoist on the trolly runs the full length of the shop, the 45 gallon plastic drum in the corner is milled cat comb it is now 2/3rds full and weighs close to 800 lbs. I figure that I can have it full by the end of next summer and ready to ship - I could sure use the money.

[Bear]

what's cat comb?

Is that shelf attached to the wall or something? I don't see any cross bracing
Is that some of the old maple you used on it? It looks like some good sturdy boards

[gustavus]

what's cat comb?

Is that shelf attached to the wall or something? I don't see any cross bracing
Is that some of the old maple you used on it? It looks like some good sturdy boards

Cat comb from catalytic converters which has been milled into powder in the ball mill, I had an assay done earlier this year from which I posted the results on the forum.

Yes the shelving is bolted to the wall, the planks are 2 x 10 screwed on with deck screws used for trailer decking. Not quit finished yet, the top shelf over hangs the front by 4 inches from that I'm going to install a slider rail then hang a half sheet with pigeon holes for nuts and bolts maybe a few small shelves to hold things like WD-40 and gasket cement.

So at any given time only one half will be covered with the slider, I actually did think about installing a pair of sliders that would over lap each other when pushed to one side. Still a possibility.

The planks came from my friends Farm in Saskatchewan, used and recycled. That car trailer I built last year was decked using the same wood. Now I have used it all up and have no more.

Maple would not be a good choice of wood to use for shelving, the wood is very brittle.

You will note that the large sliding door is mounted on the inside of the building, no now to shovel. Now that the door in enclosed the birds will no longer be able to nest inside the shop.

I do not destroy the nests once they have established themselves, just have to wait for the littler ****ters to grow up and leave on their own accord. This past summer I had 5 nesting birds in my shop.

Next on my todo list install an occupancy light switch that will allow me enter or leave the shop the lights will automatically come on or shut off depending on occupancy. Otherwise it would have been 3 way switches, instead the new switch saves on the amount of wire used as you can wire it inline to the lighting fixtures.

[gustavus]

Just received a replacement worm gear part number P-105 from the parts manual from Williams & Hussey for my W7S molder / planer.

The new gear has a Boston Gear part number 61034 BG which should be available from most jobbers at half the price.

Williams & Hussey charged me $15.00 for postage when the package arrived it bore a $3.15 metered postage stamp. Postage this outrageous one could expect from an ebay vendor.

[gustavus]

Yea right the right tool for the right job gets the job done easier and more efficiently.

A buddy of mine was at the scrap yard one day when he came across a truck load of Challenger and Proto warranty which he bought from the scrap yard, on his way home he stopped in for a visit and gave me half the load. For years he and I exchanged these broken tools for new. Then another friend had his shop broken into they stole all his tools so I outfitted him from duplicates i had.

Then my father passed away and I inherited all his tools and equipment, then I took up with Pat who's husband had passed away, you guessed it more tools, then I always find tools inside of the junkers I buy.

After moving from BC to MB sometimes I cant find the tool I need so I just buy another instead of wasting hours looking.

After 4 moves in Manitoba we finally have the property that suits both of us, now I've spent he last week building shelves and whatnot to get myself organized. Jeez I'm finding tools that I haven't seen for years.

Sockets by the bucket full, drill bits by the pound, and still have two more sheds to clean out.

I'm thinking that I'll build a nice sturdy tool box on casters, too bad I sold my High Frequency TIG welder.

Couple of years back we found these grain elevator buckets, I've mounted them onto the inside of my door for things like tire pressure gauges, air chucks and consumable for the mig and plasma cutter.

[Bear]

Haha, funny what you can come up with. I know the deal on the tools, I've lost more tools than most people ever have. Living back here on the farm now, got all Dad's tools laying around here too

[taterjuice]

Love them elevator buckets as well, work great. Gotten a pad load of em from the local elevator.

[gustavus]

[gustavus]

Here's a beast you'll not see in everyone's backyard.

[Bear]

Here's a beast you'll not see in everyone's backyard.

With that many wires overhead, I'd want some kind of a beast in my backyard too!

What does it do ?

It's got one hell of a bell housing. Does the driver need to be that wide, or is it a two seater?
aha! a dozer built for two? nice!

I'm taking that's a hek of a machine, but really got nothing to go by for size reference, except the grader beyond it, and can't see much of it

I'm also guessin you've gotta wear a coat every day ; )

[gustavus]

Wikipedia, Caterpillar 60 Caterpillar Sixty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Couple more pictures of the beast.

[gustavus]

Almost finished the drawers, all made from salvaged wood and recycled boiled linseed oil as a protective coating hopefully it will keep the mice from chewing.

Edit to add,

Should have googled it first, linseed oil AKA flaxseed oil. Apparently has some health benifits for both human and rodent.

Flaxseed is recommended for breast cancer in moderation
Flaxseed, also known as linseed, consists of the seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum).
Flaxseed is a good dietary source of vitamin E, phosphorus, manganese, magnesium, folate, copper and zinc.

Flaxseed is the richest known source of plant lignans, mainly secoisolariciresinol, which are converted by intestinal microbiota to the mammalian lignans enterodiol and enterolactone.

Flaxseed also contains high levels of the omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid and is a good source of melatonin, both of which have been shown to confer protection against breast cancer.

Flaxseed has been shown to have radioprotective, antioxidant and cholesterol-reducing properties.

Flaxseed has been reported to inhibit lung and colorectal cancer in mice.

Consumption of flaxseed has been found to be associated with biological changes that may be protective for prostate cancer, but the relationship between flaxseed consumption and prostate cancer is unclear.

[gustavus]

I'm on my second year free heat from waste veggie oil, purchased this Colombia hot water boiler 4 years ago and finally got it wired and plumbed in just before X-mass last year. I became barren Realms apprentice during the installation he coached my over the telephone on how to wire up the aqua-stats, thanks Barren.

The furnace has been flaming out for the past week or so, I could always relight it by tossing in a piece of news paper but you could never count on it to fire on its own. So I decided to bite the bullet and source out the problem.

What I found is that the electrodes were totally encapsulated in carbon, after removing three nuts, air and oil line along with a quick disconnect multi wire power cord the burner is easy to remove. About 20 minutes work from removing to re-installing.

When I switched the power back on she fired up on her own.

You can actually but a kit to convert the standard type furnace oil burner to use waste oil, the kit is available here. ckBurners - info & parts for WVO/WMO burners; reduce foreign oil dependence and carbon footprint


I have been saving all the oil burners that I come across, I'm going to convert one to use on the home foundry.

[gustavus]

This is a project that I started a few years back so far been saving bits and pieces which I'll get into here.

Eventually the plan is to make a Kaleidoscope which is esentually some mirrors and a junk chamber for your colored bits. There are plenty of plans available on the internet to make these from paper rolls on the cheap.

But as we all know I have a love affair with wood, my kaleidoscope shall be made from wood turned on the wood lathe, probably use some of that beautiful figured broad leaf maple Ive been hoarding.

Every large photo copier and laser bar code scanners and printers have mirrors inside, the mirror is manufactured with the mirror topside which make them very good mirrors. Now we know where my mirrors came from.

What I call the junk chamber, I've been saving broken bottles of every color known to man, I'll break them up even smaller then add the mixture of colored bits into the junk chamber, while cleaning up my shop came across some really cool glass filters that change color by moving them in the light similar to opal glass.

The good news is that I almost have enough room in the shop to bring in the wood lathe to get started on some of my delayed projects.

Wooden Kaleidoscopes

[Otto]

I'm on my second year free heat from waste veggie oil, purchased this Colombia hot water boiler 4 years ago and finally got it wired and plumbed in just before X-mass last year. I became barren Realms apprentice during the installation he coached my over the telephone on how to wire up the aqua-stats, thanks Barren.

The furnace has been flaming out for the past week or so, I could always relight it by tossing in a piece of news paper but you could never count on it to fire on its own. So I decided to bite the bullet and source out the problem.

What I found is that the electrodes were totally encapsulated in carbon, after removing three nuts, air and oil line along with a quick disconnect multi wire power cord the burner is easy to remove. About 20 minutes work from removing to re-installing.

When I switched the power back on she fired up on her own.

You can actually but a kit to convert the standard type furnace oil burner to use waste oil, the kit is available here. ckBurners - info & parts for WVO/WMO burners; reduce foreign oil dependence and carbon footprint


I have been saving all the oil burners that I come across, I'm going to convert one to use on the home foundry.

This is really interesting, Gus. Does the veggie oil burn as hot as regular furnace oil? Are you filtering and removing the glycerin yourself? Should be a snap, compared to refining PMs. I came across a tradesman who converted his full-sized van to veggie. It prompted me to do some reading on the subject. Turns out there are quite a few folks doing this - often farmers. They're producing the oil as a by-product of animal feed. I find this whole self-sufficiency thing fascinating.

[gustavus]

This is really interesting, Gus. Does the veggie oil burn as hot as regular furnace oil? Are you filtering and removing the glycerin yourself? Should be a snap, compared to refining PMs. I came across a tradesman who converted his full-sized van to veggie. It prompted me to do some reading on the subject. Turns out there are quite a few folks doing this - often farmers. They're producing the oil as a by-product of animal feed. I find this whole self-sufficiency thing fascinating.

I have a Mitsubishi Pajero diesel that I would start on diesel then switch over to straight waste veggie oil which was only filtered, the Pajero would start on veggie oil the rest of the day on waste oil last run of the day I would run a liter of diesel through to clear the injectors.

The Pajero has been laid up for two years now, last run did not clear out the veggie oil and the injectors are full of snot, another project i wanted to have done before spring. The PJ ran fine on straight filtered oil.

I do have a 45 gallon drum of alcohol and plenty of lye to convert my stock into bio just never have enough time to build my equipment as I want to reclaim the alcohol its much to expensive to discard.

As for the hot water boiler using waste oil, about all I can say is that I'm pleased with having free heat with a bit of maintenance once in awhile, when the furnace is fired all you can see coming from the chimney are heat vapors.

The furnace also gets fed used engine oil that the neighbors drop off for me, I think my carbon build up came from the engine oil.

If you can get a steady supply of waste veggie oil I would strongly recommend making bio for your diesel burning vehicles or even to convert an oil fired furnace to heat your shop or house.

My preference was for the hot water boiler which resides in the back room to my shop, from the boiler I will be able to plumb hot water into the house and green house for year round growing. With forced air heating your restricted.

[landmine]

Love the waste oil post gus,

My diesel truck runs on wmo and i have thought about doing my house.
I get loads of oil burners for scrap, time to start saving them and convert

And i believe waste oil will burn hotter than heating oil( it has more btu's i think)

[gustavus]

Love the waste oil post gus,

My diesel truck runs on wmo and i have thought about doing my house.
I get loads of oil burners for scrap, time to start saving them and convert

And i believe waste oil will burn hotter than heating oil( it has more btu's i think)

Inside my Colombia manual there is a formula that will tell you how many BTU's your furnace is putting out.

At first to filter my waste oil, I would hang an old pillow case into a drum then let gravity do its magic, then I found a near new oil transfer pump some thoughtful employee discarded because it had quit working. All that it needed to get back working was to clean out the wire mesh screen.

I no longer sack filter but rely on the wire mesh screens from the oil transfer pump and the lenze oil filter which came with the boiler, much quicker than sacking.

The lenze filter has a vacuum / pressure gauge attached to show when the screen is stopped up. If the filter is plugging up the gauge will go into vacuum to indicate the filter needs servicing.

Vegetable oil has about 131,000 while diesel 138,000 and waste motor oil contains 153,000 to 180,000 BTU per gallon.

There are 91,000 BTUs (British Thermal Units) per each gallon of Liquid Propane (LP) gas.

That's settled waste oil fired foundry is much hotter than propane.