Scratch Build – In Progress Hypno-Toad Rebuild--April 2012 quick repair and refit.

This worklog is one that I kicked myself for missing when it all transpired. I especially loved the experimentation with custom made fan blades. Thats the crazy stuff I love about modding

 

I seem to like to make stuff that doesn't work.

 

Still evolving

Sorry about bumping the ancients, but...

-I had to show you this kewl panda face. -No. 'Toad's reservoir has been a problem for a while now. The setup made it impossible to clean, and it was frequently springing leaks.

-I've been playing around with using stainless steel tube for a while, and recently cranked out a prototype that I palmed off on Bill Owen from MNPCTech. We have discussed doing a run using one- piece end caps. Make some noise if you are interested.
-Here I have freshly cut end caps in a cut-off of the tube. It took me a while to find some suitable scraps for the green. I added a third port on this one for a fill line.

-My version has 2 part caps. I need to glue these little rings on the inside to hold the O-rings.

-I picked up some clearance G3/8 barbs to see if I could make a large port version. -Looks doable to me.

-I fixed up a ghetto tailstock for sanding the tube body. Yeah, That's a skateboard wheel.

-I made a horrible mess trying to get the tube polished up. I had to stop because the bit of felt and polishing compound I used turned into a silver rock.

-In keeping with tradition, I made the brackets out of an old, (friggen hard,) chunk of industrial polycarbonate a friend had given me.

- Ignore the countersink failure. Here They are tapped out and ready to mount.

-Before I could mount a new res, there was a lot of gore... and cleaning.

-The insides of the old res. have some nasty ball of plasticizer, faux bauxite, and bacteria.

-Ewww! Who sneezed?

-OK, I fixed that. -Wait, Something's not right...

-Mounting up a new res. A handy feature of this setup is that I can fill with the lid off even when the pump is running. The version I drew up for production has a center fillport in an indent to help prevent spillage.

-Capped up. The last bit of thick material I had wasn't very transparent.

-Here she is 'finished' again. I need to find more junk to make a cap for the fill line, and there's still some work to do on the old pump top. I ripped the old barbs out thinking I could drop it in the mill real quick and update to bitspower barbs.
...Then I remembered this is what powers the mill.

 

-I still don't have the old pump top in, but the res cover is done. Have a quick pic.

 

didn't believe my eyes when I saw this near the top of the list! looks good Cheaps

 

OHoooo whos back

 

Thanks.
Now let the log drift back to nostalgia land...

 

Don't you dare!

 

hahahaha guys look, Cheaps made a funny

 

HEEEEEEEEE"S BAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAcK!