BOTTOM FEEDERS= a place for everything modified and/or custom made
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I have to give it a couple of weeks of use before I make a judgement. But so far, it's one of the most comfortable mods I've used. Fits my hand well.
No squonking issues. The silicone feed tube is 7/32 OD x 3/32 ID with a gentle curve (no kinks).
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yeah, it's very similar, except for the nice 22mm cap, and the screw is already there and bored.
As I said Mike I'm gonna do some serious head scratching and come up with something. I'm even gonna turn some vented screws of my own and see what I can come up with.
I've never stabilized wood myself. I built that for resin casting to degas and for carbon fiber work.
honestly to really do it right vacuum is really not enough, the best way is to vacuum it for full penetration and then move it to a pressure tank and cure it under pressure. stuff like cactus juice is mediocre at best. check out this place, they do stabilizing with your sent in wood, it's charged by the pound and weight is after it's stabilized so some lighter weight woods can add quite a bit of weight where many hardwoods may only increase 20% or so. they also sell supplies... these guys do the best stabilizing and it's really not ridiculously expensive... not saying you can't do it yourself, I just never did
check out https://www.knifeandgun.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=71
honestly to really do it right vacuum is really not enough, the best way is to vacuum it for full penetration and then move it to a pressure tank and cure it under pressure. stuff like cactus juice is mediocre at best. check out this place, they do stabilizing with your sent in wood, it's charged by the pound and weight is after it's stabilized so some lighter weight woods can add quite a bit of weight where many hardwoods may only increase 20% or so. they also sell supplies... these guys do the best stabilizing and it's really not ridiculously expensive... not saying you can't do it yourself, I just never did
check out https://www.knifeandgun.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=71
personally I'm loving using the needle from fatdaddy. I make a threaded bottom stop from PEEK which is much stronger than delrin, great for the tiny thread engagement we use, then I use a small section of silicone tube as the cushion and seal. I like it so much that I haven't bothered even looking for anything else, works perfect for me, and this can be used with just about anybodies 510 really
Thanks for the help on the Vacuum Chamber guys.I've started to look at this idea because I cannot find one Company here in South Africa who stabilise timber using resins to impregnate it and no one selling stabilised blocks that I can use.
I've read that Epoxy is not great and that its best to use Acrylics but to bring a gallon of Cactus Juice here is 170USD before taxes.
There's some really great timber available here so I think I'll go ahead and try and make a chamber,luckily I've a friend in the refrigeration business so I can use his vacuum pump etc.
Maybe I'll just try with a polyurethane to start with and see where it leads.
I've read that Epoxy is not great and that its best to use Acrylics but to bring a gallon of Cactus Juice here is 170USD before taxes.
There's some really great timber available here so I think I'll go ahead and try and make a chamber,luckily I've a friend in the refrigeration business so I can use his vacuum pump etc.
Maybe I'll just try with a polyurethane to start with and see where it leads.
hi genosmate!
since you got a friend in refrigeration ... maybe he can get you a used compressor ...and help to set it up as a vacuum pump
there are some vids on you tube how to do it .
I'd be tempted to title it "Anti-Enclosure" and sell it to a modern art gallery for 5k
Not sure if it's s viable option, but this is where I get stabilized wood blocks
http://burlsource.us/stabilized-dyed-wood/
Hey Rob, that one on the left looks like it might infringe the Reo patent
How bout a pic of your engraved Reo? Surely that fits in here as a bottom feeder modification?
How bout a pic of your engraved Reo? Surely that fits in here as a bottom feeder modification?
Hey Rob, that one on the left looks like it might infringe the Reo patent
How bout a pic of your engraved Reo? Surely that fits in here as a bottom feeder modification?
Not a REO patent infringement at all! It IS A REO! ;-)
Button mod and then metal removed and the stabilized wood put in to replace the drilled out metal! But she is a genuine REO.
And here is a pic of the engraved one... I have posted so many pics of Avril people will be getting tired of seeing her!
Ian here is a shot of the REO before the wood was added. ;-)
And to see the video with pictures as she was created here is the link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev35zD5LQtQ&list=UU93Yb6OpT0MUaeE7dsAX4Pw
And to see the video with pictures as she was created here is the link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev35zD5LQtQ&list=UU93Yb6OpT0MUaeE7dsAX4Pw
With a brass screw (!!!!) because drilling into an SS screw is a pain. And why the cross gaps, when they refer to it as "Flat"? The only reason for that is to allow airflow through the 510, which, Bottom Feeder for the love of God.
Edit: also confused as to how this fastens to a mod. I assume it isn't that tiny grub on the side. Glue?
Edit of Edit: I get upset when I see new BF 510s being sold that keep falling short, even though there are hundreds of pages of discussions on this topic. I'd love to see someone issue one and get it right, so we can all just adopt it and move on.
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Which is why I just bought a 7mm x .5 tap (and die)...that way, when it's a leaky piece of crap, I own it
I'm pretty sure mark from burlsource uses K&G for his stabilizing. I know he did for sure at one point. a lot of vendors use K&G for there stabilizing
it's amazing isn't it! Even a company/website devoted to bottom feeding doesn't get it right.
Which is why I just bought a 7mm x .5 tap (and die)...that way, when it's a leaky piece of crap, I own it
that's the route I'm going too Quigs, screw it.
btw, has anyone seen or bought a REO with it's new 510? Impressions?
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