New Iron Worker is on the way

A metal box is ordered to keep dies in, and a set of 6" wheels that do 5K lbs. They will be here prob end of next week.

Other things on the way are a 3 phase converter, another housing to put under the original control box that will have the 3 phase converter in it and it's related wiring. A 20' 50A extension cord to cut the female end off of and wire it to the converter. Everything for the conversion will be on the machine along with a 20' cord so it can be rolled around and plugged into the 220V plugs anywhere around the shop. All of the wiring parts will be here this Sat so I can do the wiring next Monday.

The missing punch dies showed up today so all of the iron worker parts are here minus some of the fabrication kit parts, guards and table set up for the punching station. They are working on that then this little fiasco of missing parts will finally be over.

Everything also showed up today to get it wired up along with a few new 220 50A outlets that are going over by the mill to run the iron worker and to have another welder outlet. I decided to wrap up most of the Escalade engine today so the iron worker stuff will get started on Monday after the Escalade is done.

Been another crazy day again. Another tractor showed up today out of the blue that I had no idea was coming so I'm not doing good keeping with my schedule.

The wheels will be here tomorrow and it will be a priority to get them put on so I can wheel it around and get the forklift free. The new electrical box got mounted today, I just need to wire it up tomorrow and it will be ready minus some of the missing parts that still aren't here yet. Then it's on to getting the new outlets in and putting it to work.

She's wired and ready to try out tomorrow. The shop is cleared out and after a little rearranging and installing 2 more outlets tomorrow it will be ready to use.

Geno wrote: She's wired and ready to try out tomorrow. The shop is cleared out and after a little rearranging and installing 2 more outlets tomorrow it will be ready to use.

Shop looks great.....................................................

Thanks Uncle Nappy.

I do love project boxes. One is on the iron worker for the converter and I got out another today for the welding outlet junction, sure beats taking the building apart. I made a setup that just gets its power from the converter on the mill and jumped it to the new outlets. The wire and cords are bigger than need be and they are never run all at once anyway so all is good.

I think I have a good spot close to the welding bench picked out where I can get to all sides of the machine. I fired up the machine and it runs but the press arms aren't raising and the foot pedal isn't working. Guess I'll talk to them tomorrow about that...

It is finally working.

They sent another complete fabricators kit with everything in it instead of trying to find the missing pieces, it should be here Monday. One thing I can say, the customer service from them is the best and above and beyond what I've seen in a very long time.

Still a few things I want to do to it, hopefully I can get it done Monday but good thing is it is usable now.

Thanks Kurt and thanks for the wiring brainstorming so I stayed on track lol.

Now it's on to making it more user friendly and doing a few more modifications.

The motor and pump was transmitting a lot of vibration into the reservoir and machine making it a lot louder. I have a flooring guy friend that brought me a lot of leftover heavy duty rubber flooring from an exercise type business he redid a few years ago and it was perfect for this. There's a piece cut to fit under the reservoir and a piece cut to go over the cover to stop a little more noise and make sure the tooling stays put. And to not scratch the machine of course...

I'm sure there will some more pieces cut to put around the machine so the floor paint doesn't get chipped up when using it as well.