Tools, Tips and Tricks

This example and many others, which are published by only good ideas, which cannot work, energy cannot be produced from nothing, here I assume that the battery is installed in the capacitor housing,… the closest to functioning is the magnetic motor, but also this one doesn’t work, years ago a colleague made something similar, and we bet for a case of beer, he claimed it worked and I said it didn’t, guess who won the bet.

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Doesnt really matter, as long as you drink together :joy:

That Tesla machine is something you can lose yourself too

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Thought i post this here, cause i really like this “method” of making gaskets.
If you have tried to make holes in: for example: thick rubber, you know that drilling gives smaller, uneven holes, using a hole punch just bounces around, and ends with you hitting yourself on the soft skin between thumb and index finger, leaving a blister.
Some years ago i’ve learned this from a guy that repaired industrial conveyors: put the hole punch in the drill, and use it like it was a ordinary drill-bit.


Standard hole punch, here i use it for high-temp gasket material, thats to brittle to drill or punch.

If the hole punches are’nt cylindrical one can fix them in a lathe, or in a drill-press.

This works both in hand-held, or drill-press, when “drill-punching” rubber, some oil can be helpful, cools the punch, and makes the holes even “cleaner”.

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If my hole punches had not grown feet and walked off I would still use that method. For all my rubber gaskets I sandwhich the rubber between 2 plates of either wood or steel and then a regular drill through. Not perfect edges but much better then just a drill through rubber

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Punches. grind down the edge of old sockets and cut a couple little teeth in there with a cutting wheel on a dremel. Any size you need. Pull the socket off the extension and pop out the plug. Been there, done that.

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Georgio and Others, how I’ve learned to sort out these “Astonishing!”, “Discovery!”, “Rediscovered!”, “Suppressed Knowledge’s” is twofold.

Since we are only capturing, storing, converting existing energy sources . . . for IT to be new, unique, it would have to tap into a new source of energy.
While possible as Georgio you say with steam (heat/expansion); later induced electrical flow/magnetism; nuclear heat; crystal excitation/focusing . . .
For any actual applications it must exceed the current in-use systems.

Folks must be convinced to prematurely set aside their current bought in-use-systems to replace with the new-ooh-wow-better.
In effect the new energy system must earn it way to usage.

Ha! Ha! For the best personal usage cost-effectiveness always better to use yesterdays cast off set asides.
Like Tone, and you Georgio are doing.
Even me at times able to buy newly manufactured I am buying older or at least years in service time proven designs.
No, current production diesels needing 4PPM? low sulfur diesel AND then the added cost of Diesel Exhaust Fluid in my stable of engines. I druther be buying 2-stroke mix oil and using those.
Regards
Steve unruh

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yesterday restoring the command-wire of the FIM tractor s clutch…the wire was broken near the handle , so when lenght becomes two inch less is not a problem…




the fotos: preparing the new stopper -end
welded stopper-end
the other end of the wire was open, so cannot enter in the bowden more…so needs also some welding…keeping close as possible the single wires together with a spiral wire…give some welding points on…melts together with the spiral wires first turn-around…than grinding down from the sides to command wire size…
works really well, only short touches with the electrode …
this try i liked to make since a time, to see if it is possible…

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interesting video for making some small amounts of gasoline in crisis times…How this Tripura man made fuel by burning single-use plastics - YouTube
we have fortunately for our motors our wood -or char gas, but for 2 stroke engines like chainsaws not works, so destilling some waste for this reason could be interesting…
we cutted all our wood for long times by hand, but after my back operation we bought a chainsaw, and i would not like to miss it more, especially when one is older and has not more the power of youth…

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You are correct GiorgioP. that a well developed modern 2-stroke chainsaw can stretch out your wood cutting abity as you age by decades.
I’ve seen it here where a once 20+ pound power head user aged down to 12-13 pound power heads. Then even to 10 pound Stihl MS260’s to keep into thier 70’s wood cutting.

And then even a step past that like with my 80+ y.o. Father-In-Law back-bent-hunched down deteriated unable to pull start even that. Too much pain.
So I bought him a plug-in electric Stihl saw. We quickly learned to take off the small, narrow toothed mini-Pico chain and bar. Too many teeth broke off. I changed him over to a normal sized 3/8" tooth chain and bar. Works. Worked well enough for him, he and I wore out the motor brushes. Replacements were available from Stihl.

So instead of making a 2-stroke substitute fuel get a plug-in electric chainsaw.
Your chargas/woodgas systems you are making to be portable, yes. Take that wood-makes-power to the cutting sites.

No. No. An electric, plug-in, or modern battery electric will not work cut the same as a good 2.5+ horsepower 2-stroke saw. The few tried four-stroke saws will not either.
But the plug-in electric will be much, much better than hand manual sawing.
Regards
Steve Unruh

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I hope in the near future they develop an electric chainsaw that can handle a 20+ inch bar. Some are in the 18 inch range now, standard is 16 inch.

It’s doable to process big trees with an 18 inch bar, but I still have to saw the core out with my buck saw. Slow going and a lot of finesse.

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The Milwaukee 18v will pull a 20, but dont get to rowdy with the chain sharpening they dont like that. 18" is like the bare bones minimum needed around here but the pacific northwest is kinda unique with its average tree size being much larger then many other places. Even my little saws all run 20" all the big saws are 32 and 36. Its not always needed, but damn is it nice to stand up and buck, reduces the chance of kickback with liberal application of throttle and a sharp chain. Kinda miss my buddy that just moved across the cascades, he could handfile a chain to scary sharpness. My saws dont cut the same with my hand filing :rofl:

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Is that Milwaukee saw any good? Anyone personally use one? I thought i read a while back they like to throw the chain or where finicky that way…id be interested in hearing from someone other than you tube.

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I played with one for about 20 minutes…it seemed fine to me, I don’t have a high expectation and I am very biased towards 2 strokes and ill admit that. But if I wanted a pack on the snowmobile or quad cut a random tree off the trail type saw its what I would go with, mostly from my loyalty to the Milwaukee 18 volt battery line. A buddy has one and he seems to like it just fine and uses it pretty regularly and he doesn’t have any real complaints about it that I know of and he is very picky when it comes to saws and what he likes. I do plan to get one eventually, side of the road emergency type throw it in the tool box and its there if you need it thing. Gotta be better then just an axe and machete that I normally carry for that scenario in my mind

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Yeah, you cant beat a two stroke saw! But i can see a time and place for the Milwaukee… i as well am very partial to the m18 line. And will admit i want to hear its a good saw for light random work. I do have their weed wip with at 12Ah battery…love it!

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Fake. :slight_smile: The free energy, is all the views they got from the video, and they will end up with enough money to pay their electric bill for life. :slight_smile:

Playing around with magnets in configurations similar to this has been going on since at least the 1970s and probably decades earlier.

The new computer programs can do all the design work for you for magnetic fields.

This is video that goes through and explains a lot of the basics.

The actual -neater- fakes I saw were some russian(?) ones where they had ac coil under the table, and a coil to wirelessly pick up the power, similar to a wireless cellphone or car charger. That might be the case in this video as well as there is a black cord coming out of the wall, and you can’t really see where it ends.

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My nearest neighbor uses the Milwaukee battery saw and that’s all he uses for the last two years. I can vouch for its durability. I have a 58V Echo. I should challenge him to a cutting race some time. I’ve been using the Echo for a year now for mainly cutting up limbs and as a back up to free up my gas saw when I get it the bar pinched. I do not regret buying it.

Some good deals reviewed on Den of Tools this week.

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I have the 2x18 volt Makita model’s i have a 14 inch model and the 16 inch with a slightly more powerful motor , i understand its always best to go with a brand you know or have already so swapping batteries & chargers around is easy , i have a old Honda track powered barrow load of Hardwood i need cutting into length then i will always use the battery saw’s i can get 2 / 3 days of fire wood cut of Blackwood on a single charge and trust me this Aussie Blackwood is pretty hard stuff , this is my power Barrow you can see how small i cut the length’s .


Dave

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I have been using the 80 volt Harbor Freight saw for over a year, on about 3 cords of wood.

Cuts really fast but you can’t lean into it for more than a few seconds or the battery shuts off. Wait 10 sec and go

When cutting 1’ material it is good for about an hour so be sure to get an extra battery

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I have a 20V Rigid angle grinder and every time it gets into even the most minor bind it shuts down. Drives me crazy. Same thing you are talking about Mike.

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We had an angle grinder like that in the shop, it was a safety feature, it “registered” g-forces from binding to immediately shut of to avoid kick-back’s, totally impossible to work with, drives you crazy.
Now we have a Milwauke angle grinder, much better

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