User:JSaxe/Sandbox

This is my personal sandbox page for doing experiments with mediawiki features and for developing draft pages while they're so drafty that I'm not ready to have other editors jump in. If you read the stuff below and come up with ideas for changes, please suggest those changes in the discussion (talk) page for this page. If you're thinking about creating destination pages for redlinks (i.e., apparent links with no existing destination page) in draft pages below, beware that page names in the link text may only be tentative place-holders and likely to change. (That's just one of the things I mean when I describe such drafts as drafty. Another is that some of my draft text may be highly in need of checking by people with greater domain knowledge.) --JSaxe

MN Metal Hot Shop

Our metal hot shop (or simply hot shop) is our place for metalworking processes that involve lots of heat, sparks, and/or dust. It's also home to some related processes: One of our bench grinders is normally set up with buffing wheels, and our forging area is in the hot shop even though we currently support only cold forging.

Safety

TBW

Welding

• Miller Multimatic 220 AC/DC Multiprocess Welder (×5)
• Lincoln Electric Square Wave TIG 335 Welder (not yet available)
• Miller CP-250 TS Welder (not yet available)

[Something about welding tables TBW]

Our personal protection equipment for welding includes light screens, welding coats and aprons, gloves, and several models of helmets:

• Titanium TI-TCWH9 Auto-Darkening Welding Helmets

  User manual dated 2023

• WorkPro LY600 (?) Auto-Darkening Welding Helmets

  [Manual not found]

• Pyramex WHAM30 Auto-Darkening Welding Helmet

  User manual

Plasma Cutting

• GoFab CNC 48"×96" Plasma Cutter
• Hypotherm Powermax 380 Handheld Plasma Cutter

Grinding (and Buffing), Sanding, Sawing

Angle grinders and table

We have four angle grinders:

• DeWalt DWE43116 Angle Grinder (×3)

  [Instruction manuals are here for "Type 1", "Type 15", and "Type 2". Which type are ours?]

• Bauer 20104E-B (??) Angle Grinder

  [Documentation found under this model number (and also under the item number, 58079, seems to be for a different tool. Why?]

These are stored on a rack mounted to a table that can be moved out to the back parking lot area with a pallet lifter normally stored below the table. The pallet lifter is also available for other use around the makerspace.

• [If we add a page for the pallet lifter, a link would go here.]

Bench Grinders

• Milwaukee [model #?] 6" Bench Grinder
• Northern Industrial 6" Bench Grinder ("Item # 143387")
• Dayton 4Z809B (?) Bench Grinder
• Central Machinery MM8260 6" Bench Grinder

Sanders

The Central Machinery Bench Grinder listed above and the two sanders listed below are for use only on tungsten weding electrodes.

• Central Machinery [model #?] 12" Direct Drive Bench Top Disc Sander
• Belsaw [model #?] 1"×8" Belt Disk Sander/Grinder

=== Metal Chop Saws

• Milwaukee [model #?] [size?] Metal Chop Saw
• [Brand?] [model?] [size?] Metal Chop Saw

Note: Our Surface Grinder is in the Metal Cold Shop. [Mention any saws in the cold shop here.] Saws and sanders for wood are, of course, in the woodshop.

Media Blasting

• Lake Buchanan "The Barrel Baster" Caninet Media Blaster

  [no manual found so far]

• Central Machinery 18 oz Portable Sand Blaster Gun Kit

  User manual.

Forging

Currently, our forging area currently is set up only for cold forging, though we hope eventually to support hot forging. We have ... [more TBW].

Miscellany

• Tube bender
• Flood lights
• Fire extinguishers and fire blankets [perhaps to be covered above under "Safety"]

What should we say about hand tools and about work-holding devices on this page, and where on the page should we say it? (BTW, to what extent do hand tools have fixed/specified homes, and to what extent do they float around the hot shop or beyond?)

What, if anything, should this page (vs. individual tool pages) say about classes?

What, if anything, should this page (vs. individual tool pages) say about materials and/or consumables?