I regulary travel to Indonesia, I have relatives overthere so that is why. Overthere in Medan there is a shop that repairs startermotors and dynamo's/alternators. The owner (friend of the family) made a soldering iron from a glowplug. He made a handle on it and made a copper sleeve that fits snugly over it. He uses car batteries to power it. And it works great!
yeah I am looking and it really seems like a PWM board for some amps and an arduino, along with a thermocouple and you could build a temp controllable soldering iron that is better than any Hakko multi hundred dollar unit LOL, Makes me wonder if a sleeve and a bit of slow moving air from a fan, could make a good hot air rework station XD.
Thanks for the share! You beat me too it lol and i never new the proper term after doing it for 12+ years already, i started doing art on wood by heating up Butter Knifes with a propane torch and using as burning tool...
Another great use for that Glow Plug adaptation, did you mistakenly call the Positive wire, Negative? Cos the wire that went in the connection Block at the top of the Glow Plug surely is the Positive? Anyway at least I now understand what you meant with the Portable Soldering Iron, where I couldn’t see the Negative wire from the Washers/Nuts.
(1:39) almost, LOL that you are holding is a die in a die holder or handle, to give the needed torque to twist it cutting bits of the metal off the outside of a shaft, Taps the other half are the things you twist into a hole to thread it to make a nut :) Also it is getting damn hard to buy those at our local hardware stores, other than in a kit of taps and dies and the handles that work best for taps (a twisted pair of metal rods pushing two square segments inward that have a 45º rotated 90º cut onto one of the 4 squared corners of the tap, from each side, instead all I see are those things that look like a drill chuck and really don't have a sharp flat segment to rest the flats of the square end of a tap on, so they end up slipping and being torn up :( A trick I found (especially good for finger rotation in a tight corner) for holding and rotating taps is the collets like ER-20 ect as I used one with a bit of wire I twisted to tighten it up on the ridge to hold it tight in on those flats so the points of the corners slid into the slits in the collet used to allow expanding and contracting when tightened on a shaft of a drill or endmill, this made it more than big enough around to grip and twist into aluminum for threading and such on my CNC mill I bought (that did not have end stops sadly so I have been drilling and tapping spots to screw down on microswitches to make them into end stops or homing points for my 3D printer board I have been using the dir and step outputs to go to a parallel port system the powered drivers for my motors is inside of, (they sent this nonsense hacked illegal copy and serial number software for it, sadly and a USB to parallel port cable that obviously has some custom chip for the converting the two signals and I have not been able to track this down so I could add it to the software to control it from reprap's repetier host, so just been using a breakout to run wires from the tiny driver board plug ports of an ardunio based 3D printer controller now. LOL*unfortunately you have to have microswitch or some other output feedback for end stops to use the marlin software on those for the board, and I don't know enough about programming to remove that requirement to keep the software from doing odd things with out them. SO bust out the taps and find I cant use a normal handle thus improvise and found it works so SO much better, including the shaft and collet holder I got for them :) (also works much better to have a collet holder on a drill press than the inaccurate drill chucks normally supplied, just don't buy cheap chinese items or you will end up possibly getting one the end that fits your drill is not center and at the right angle. had to learn that the hard way LOL)
Seems super easy and as always very diy. Have you tried or reviewed a product called a scorth pen? How to do that at home would be awesome. As always, you rock.
something I am kinda wondering is why these (glow plugs) were not considered when building a 3D printer from scratch the first time, as these seem to be far better suited as a heater for them, than what is used normally (saw there is a company called BorgWarner, that makes glow plugs good for continuous use at 200 C higher than normal ie instead of 1100 C they are good for use at 1300 C, been looking to find a source for some to experiment with as more than soldering tips, as well as some non corrosion tip material for my current soldering station, :)
I think that is a die not a tap but I agree easy enough to make and ceramic fiber would be easier to use but it must be encapsulated as it's a Carcinogenic.
look back at Robert Murray-Smith's videos over the last day or two as he did just that XD (before the solder bath I believe, quite amazing once you realize these can go to 1100 C normally and the newer ceramic ones developed by BorgWarner are supposed to be capable of sustaining 1300C pretty sure that is more than hot enough in both cases to melt aluminum, but have to check (seem to recall its melting point is 660ºC but don't take my word for it, if you are interested I would go and look it up, as I will to double check my memory and make sure before doing anything with aluminum.
@@ThomasAndersonbsf that’s a cool thought wonders if it’s possible to weld aluminium with one of these. Draw it along the weld line and apply filler wire that also contains flux. Iirc aluminium melts at 660 degrees C. Problem may be the heat dissipated in the surrounding metal area acting as a heat sink but I’m sure some kind of wide flame blow lamp or electric heat gun may solve this.
ok so you showed a soldering iron and now a wood burning iron, so now you just need to make something to fix an X-acto knife tip on it for a hot knife! LOL (or one of those single sided scraper razor blades for a hot paint scraper ! :) (ie two flat with some ribs and two holes in each metal bits that clamp on the blades folded edge and maybe press some round indention on each so it can then also clamp down on the glow plug tip when the two screws are tightened to hold the razor so it clamps down on all at once XD. Now how can we make the insulation stuff say using water glass as a starting material to get a high temp and high insulation value item ! XD
I regulary travel to Indonesia, I have relatives overthere so that is why. Overthere in Medan there is a shop that repairs startermotors and dynamo's/alternators. The owner (friend of the family) made a soldering iron from a glowplug. He made a handle on it and made a copper sleeve that fits snugly over it. He uses car batteries to power it. And it works great!
Who knew these glow plugs were such a gem! Cheers Robert.
Would have liked to have seen the thread recut ! Great art calligraphy !
Great idea. I believe that tool is a die for cutting male threads, though. A tap cuts threads on the female component.
Yeh, that’s what I was gonna say, but didn’t cos I write too many comments, lol.
I made a soldering iron from a Volkswagen glow plug once because my cheap Walmart soldering iron wouldn't get hot enough.
yeah I am looking and it really seems like a PWM board for some amps and an arduino, along with a thermocouple and you could build a temp controllable soldering iron that is better than any Hakko multi hundred dollar unit LOL, Makes me wonder if a sleeve and a bit of slow moving air from a fan, could make a good hot air rework station XD.
That self portrait will soon be hanging in the Tate Modern! Some masterpiece!!👍😁
Nice drawing ! 👏👏👏
Thanks for the share! You beat me too it lol and i never new the proper term after doing it for 12+ years already, i started doing art on wood by heating up Butter Knifes with a propane torch and using as burning tool...
Another great use for that Glow Plug adaptation, did you mistakenly call the Positive wire, Negative? Cos the wire that went in the connection Block at the top of the Glow Plug surely is the Positive? Anyway at least I now understand what you meant with the Portable Soldering Iron, where I couldn’t see the Negative wire from the Washers/Nuts.
Shopping list getting longer now.
Thank you for sharing this.
Best comment ever. I have tons of resources on the shelf thanks to rob
attach to a copper wire to cut Styrofoam :)
Dam, i could make my coffee warm with that on a solar panel or two.
Probably heat alot of water with a dozen or so.
(1:39) almost, LOL that you are holding is a die in a die holder or handle, to give the needed torque to twist it cutting bits of the metal off the outside of a shaft, Taps the other half are the things you twist into a hole to thread it to make a nut :) Also it is getting damn hard to buy those at our local hardware stores, other than in a kit of taps and dies and the handles that work best for taps (a twisted pair of metal rods pushing two square segments inward that have a 45º rotated 90º cut onto one of the 4 squared corners of the tap, from each side, instead all I see are those things that look like a drill chuck and really don't have a sharp flat segment to rest the flats of the square end of a tap on, so they end up slipping and being torn up :(
A trick I found (especially good for finger rotation in a tight corner) for holding and rotating taps is the collets like ER-20 ect as I used one with a bit of wire I twisted to tighten it up on the ridge to hold it tight in on those flats so the points of the corners slid into the slits in the collet used to allow expanding and contracting when tightened on a shaft of a drill or endmill, this made it more than big enough around to grip and twist into aluminum for threading and such on my CNC mill I bought (that did not have end stops sadly so I have been drilling and tapping spots to screw down on microswitches to make them into end stops or homing points for my 3D printer board I have been using the dir and step outputs to go to a parallel port system the powered drivers for my motors is inside of, (they sent this nonsense hacked illegal copy and serial number software for it, sadly and a USB to parallel port cable that obviously has some custom chip for the converting the two signals and I have not been able to track this down so I could add it to the software to control it from reprap's repetier host, so just been using a breakout to run wires from the tiny driver board plug ports of an ardunio based 3D printer controller now. LOL*unfortunately you have to have microswitch or some other output feedback for end stops to use the marlin software on those for the board, and I don't know enough about programming to remove that requirement to keep the software from doing odd things with out them. SO bust out the taps and find I cant use a normal handle thus improvise and found it works so SO much better, including the shaft and collet holder I got for them :) (also works much better to have a collet holder on a drill press than the inaccurate drill chucks normally supplied, just don't buy cheap chinese items or you will end up possibly getting one the end that fits your drill is not center and at the right angle. had to learn that the hard way LOL)
Very cool.
THAT's REALLY cool!!!!
Seems super easy and as always very diy. Have you tried or reviewed a product called a scorth pen? How to do that at home would be awesome. As always, you rock.
This is an excellent Idea!!!!
Awesome! 👏
Simple. Nice.
Why not make it portable with recycled laptop LiO 183xx batteries in a 3D printed handle?
I have a mechanic friend who has one set up to heat water for coffee
Can they be used also as electrodes for electrolysis?
WOW! your an artist too?? Dam you ROCK! DVD:)
something I am kinda wondering is why these (glow plugs) were not considered when building a 3D printer from scratch the first time, as these seem to be far better suited as a heater for them, than what is used normally (saw there is a company called BorgWarner, that makes glow plugs good for continuous use at 200 C higher than normal ie instead of 1100 C they are good for use at 1300 C, been looking to find a source for some to experiment with as more than soldering tips, as well as some non corrosion tip material for my current soldering station, :)
Nice!!
I think that is a die not a tap but I agree easy enough to make and ceramic fiber would be easier to use but it must be encapsulated as it's a Carcinogenic.
can use as soldering tool ?
I'm no Robert but I would think so, it looks like my cheap priced iron.
look back at Robert Murray-Smith's videos over the last day or two as he did just that XD (before the solder bath I believe, quite amazing once you realize these can go to 1100 C normally and the newer ceramic ones developed by BorgWarner are supposed to be capable of sustaining 1300C pretty sure that is more than hot enough in both cases to melt aluminum, but have to check (seem to recall its melting point is 660ºC but don't take my word for it, if you are interested I would go and look it up, as I will to double check my memory and make sure before doing anything with aluminum.
@@ThomasAndersonbsf that’s a cool thought wonders if it’s possible to weld aluminium with one of these. Draw it along the weld line and apply filler wire that also contains flux. Iirc aluminium melts at 660 degrees C. Problem may be the heat dissipated in the surrounding metal area acting as a heat sink but I’m sure some kind of wide flame blow lamp or electric heat gun may solve this.
👍👍👍👍
What to do with the third glow plug I wonder. Hmmmm.
ok so you showed a soldering iron and now a wood burning iron, so now you just need to make something to fix an X-acto knife tip on it for a hot knife! LOL (or one of those single sided scraper razor blades for a hot paint scraper ! :) (ie two flat with some ribs and two holes in each metal bits that clamp on the blades folded edge and maybe press some round indention on each so it can then also clamp down on the glow plug tip when the two screws are tightened to hold the razor so it clamps down on all at once XD. Now how can we make the insulation stuff say using water glass as a starting material to get a high temp and high insulation value item ! XD
Cool idea. I wonder if my tattoo power supply would work, it has a rheostat....
I'm pretty confident it would. Tattoos on wood
Better use than dreadful tattoos.
Uh oh .. I figured Pyrography ment it was about igniting fireworks remotely. Ha ... But could it ?
First? :)
Stop calling that dye a tap lol🙃
This is obviously a Die.