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I did it again.
Where I work we have two machines that use pump motors to move the wine. Mine is the filter machine, a final step, the other is a transfer machine that takes the fermented wine out of the primary fermenter and into the carboy, a first step. We tend to keep at least one back up for each machine. The Boss, is, well, a boss , so he tries to save every nickel he can. He bought a motor designed to pump a water spill. The normal motor has a double sided quick connect, the new one had a connector designed for a garden hose. In other words, completely incompatible.
I put it on the mental back burner to see if my inner MacGyver could figure it out.
He did. The upper left picture is the quick connect for the motor, the upper right is a quick connect for our manual bottle washers, the lower left is a few parts waiting modification and bottom right is the finished product.
I took a spare set of the original motor's quick connect and cut off the part that went into the motor, I punched out the quick connect for the bottle washer so I could get the brass ring, the middle ring on the motor connector was to wide for the brass ring, so I turned it against a file to small it down, once it was small enough to go in the brass I weaseled it into place, put in the rubber ring and used the brass ring to connect the hose end of the old motor's quick connect. First test had a leak. Most rubber rings were too thick, so I cut down the foam ring from the cap of a reverse osmosis water jug. Small leak. I put on thick rubber gloves for a better grip, tightened the outbound side of the motor, test fired again-no leak.
While I was working at it the new worker looked over my project and asked what I was doing. I replied "Trying to turn three machines into one." She left me to it.
It seems to be functional, but only time and a real workout will tell.
One more MacGyver like this and I get to make a set of steak knives out of reciprocating saw blades. Hmm, that might actually work!
And I used the rubber gloves to tighten the brass ring because I am not going to use a metal tool to tighten a brass ring on a plastic shaft---again.
Where I work we have two machines that use pump motors to move the wine. Mine is the filter machine, a final step, the other is a transfer machine that takes the fermented wine out of the primary fermenter and into the carboy, a first step. We tend to keep at least one back up for each machine. The Boss, is, well, a boss , so he tries to save every nickel he can. He bought a motor designed to pump a water spill. The normal motor has a double sided quick connect, the new one had a connector designed for a garden hose. In other words, completely incompatible.
I put it on the mental back burner to see if my inner MacGyver could figure it out.
He did. The upper left picture is the quick connect for the motor, the upper right is a quick connect for our manual bottle washers, the lower left is a few parts waiting modification and bottom right is the finished product.
I took a spare set of the original motor's quick connect and cut off the part that went into the motor, I punched out the quick connect for the bottle washer so I could get the brass ring, the middle ring on the motor connector was to wide for the brass ring, so I turned it against a file to small it down, once it was small enough to go in the brass I weaseled it into place, put in the rubber ring and used the brass ring to connect the hose end of the old motor's quick connect. First test had a leak. Most rubber rings were too thick, so I cut down the foam ring from the cap of a reverse osmosis water jug. Small leak. I put on thick rubber gloves for a better grip, tightened the outbound side of the motor, test fired again-no leak.
While I was working at it the new worker looked over my project and asked what I was doing. I replied "Trying to turn three machines into one." She left me to it.
It seems to be functional, but only time and a real workout will tell.
One more MacGyver like this and I get to make a set of steak knives out of reciprocating saw blades. Hmm, that might actually work!
And I used the rubber gloves to tighten the brass ring because I am not going to use a metal tool to tighten a brass ring on a plastic shaft---again.
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