If a Bantam is a SMALL chicken, does this mean that a BIG Bantam is a Chicken?

[PTRSAK]

In that case...

Ladies and Gentlemen, for your amusement, I present the Alox Chicken.







After using the Phillips driver and Mag glass from an Explorer to make a Pioneer Explorer I had the 91mm backspring left over and a set of 93mm Alox scales that came from a very used Electrician (one of the donors).

Fill the original 3mm and 2.5mm holes in the scales with "Lumi-Weld" and drill three new holes of 2.5mm and 2.2mm using a spare 91mm liner as a guide...

Grind the lump out of the inside of the Mag-Pkillips spring and it looks just like a bigger version of a Cadet/Recruit/Bantam blade layer spring with no backtool.

Find a combo tool and bird head spacer for one end and a 2.4mm tang main blade for the other end, rivet it all together and you have a 91/93mm version of the Bantam...   and a big Bantam is a Chicken.

[stealth007s]

Nice Peter!¡!


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[lowtech]

 

How easy is Lumi weld to work with?

[nuphoria]

Excellent, and I absolutely love the name!

[PTRSAK]

How easy is Lumi weld to work with?

It's more like soldering or brazing than welding. The lumiweld melts at a lower temp than the aluminium. I use a butane pencil torch and it does well enough for small items without melting them which is easy to do if you use too much heat because the melting temperatures are quite close.

[Outback in Idaho]

  Well done sir! 

[crackout]

Awesome!

[Santos]

I always think of baantam as beeing a male thing...
How about Alox Cockerel? =D

[Syph007]

Peter I like that you keep trying new off the wall stuff! Keep it up! 

[enki_ck]

Peter I like that you keep trying new off the wall stuff! Keep it up! 

+1

Great ideas.

[PTRSAK]

Peter I like that you keep trying new off the wall stuff! Keep it up! 

Please feel welcome to take any of these kooky ideas and rough prototypes I throw up and improve on them or make pretty versions.

I love playing around with stuff like this, the best job I ever had was Workshop Manager at a Robotics R&D company. (Wish I was still there with access to their machine shop and some of the materials they had. I should have sliced a strip off the 8'x4' sheet of 1/8" 440C they had.)

But my mind tends to jump ahead to the next wacky idea before I get the final finishing touches on the current one.
Or maybe it's the onset of Alzheimer's and I just keep forgetting to finish things... 

[rickinFL]

That is a fine bit of recycling.  Very nice.

[papercut]

Do you know what you have done?  Like when you cracked the Wenger tool in 84mm Vic problem, you have (by stepping around the problem) really solved one of the age old modding problems:

Q: Can I get xxx in 93mm alox?

A: No.
Er, yes you can but you need to sacrifice 4 saks to do so and it will take alot of detailed fine tuning in a tool shop. 

With what you have done, you could take any old 91mm, say an explorer, take off the scales and outer liners and house them in alox! How cool is that?

So you think the weld looks ugly?  I think it looks pretty cool, but to each his own.  How about the reworked scales getting the HAIII treatment?  Red, Blue, Green- What do you need?  Color would hide the problems areas pretty easily (or at least ok) I think. 

How tricky was it to get the alox holes filled and then drilled?  If solos were in better supply you could set up a small production line :p
An Alox Yeoman? 

Groovy!

[PTRSAK]

The "weld" I have used here is "Lumiweld ^TM" which is mainly zinc in composition. I doubt it would anodize and in fact might react negatively with the bath.

At best it would remain uncoloured or turn black, at worst it might dissolve or eat out the scales around it.

[papercut]

What about powdecoat, ceracote, and all those other processes!

[PTRSAK]

Too much like hard work.  This knife now has the florist blade and is a workbench knife.  I did another one with proper 93mm blade and combo that looks pretty.