MadModder

So at long last the O rings have arrived to re-seal the mounting face of the two way valve to it's mounting face. Rather an odd size - 9.25mm x 1.78 in hard nitrile - they are apparently BS012 seals.

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Removing the four valve mounting screws  (which previously I'd only slackened) I was surprised to find that it was mounted on an intermediate block. I suspect that it's an over pressure bypass but cannot find any diagrams. Sure enough two of the original seals were distorted but I probably (or maybe) did that when I'd slackened those mounting screws.

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Luckily I'd bough excess of the seals so was equipped to replace all eight involved with this valve.

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I'd previously pumped just short of a gallon of hydraulic oil from the base of the cabinet with an Amazon Oil Sucker (bargain at ?23 special offer)

All reassembled using a light smear of grease to hold the o-rings on the vertical surface as I tightened the bolts.

Moment of truth - I fired up the machine took it out of eStop to power up the hydraulic pump and held my breath - phew no spurts of high pressure flying about 

Now I've mopped the residual oil from the cabinet base as best I can, but it's still seeping out of nooks and crannies and probably will for a while as there is a 'false corner' bolted on to protect some wires which will have filled up. Rags stuffed everywhere to absorb what I can.

This means that I can resume fault finding on the turret (which is where this all started) - I have a feeling that I'm going to have to do an 'in frame rebuild' on the turret - it's jammed solid but far too heavy for me to lift out onto a bench.

I tried the contact button Ade and it said an error had occurred.

Hmm, odd... what was the error? It should let you use that, even if your IP is on a ban list... God knows I get enough spam through it!

I tried the contact button Ade and it said an error had occurred.

Ron

Hi Ron,

I suspect your ISP's IP address is sufficiently close to an address used by a Korean ISP (North Korean seems unlikely tbh, but could be I suppose) - can you do me a favour & use the "contact" link at the top of the page - that should work for you - and just ping a message in? It can be anything - the useful thing about that page is it records your IP address... so I should be able to find out which IP range to remove from that particular ban to restore your full access...

Apologies for the inconvenience!

Cheers,
Ade.

I found I had been restored earlier today. As far as what happened I don't know. All I can tell you is what I posted above.

Ron