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Hi everyone, welcome back to Cody's Lab.
So I'm currently inside of this other mine here.
And I'm poking around to see if I can find anything useful. This is where the hose and the jack stand was buried.
I had my Dad help me haul the jack stand out yesterday.
and I'm just sort of poking around near the rails to see if I can find anything else that I could use.
It looks like there is a bit here.
That could be useful, thats a shortie.
It could be good for starting holes, excellent.
So yea, Im just sort of digging rocks away, clawing this out.
Where they had a bunch of stuff stashed.
But it looks like if its buried over there.
I think most of it was buried right here though so, I will just keep digging and see if I can find anything else.
So here is the jack stand, its the thing that you mount the drills to when you're drilling so that you can
drill them in to the wall without having to hold it up. But there are two problems with this.
First,
Its actually too long to fit inside the mine even with this screwed all the way in.
Second, this mount is for that drill which doesn't currently work.
So the mount is wrong.
And here of course is the air compressor.
Now, if you guys saw my teaser video you know that I managed to get this thing running and I was able to get the drill running with it.
The problems that the engine had was the points were not making good contact,
so it wasn't running properly so a marginal pressure of 120 psi would actually kill the engine.
But now that I fixed that it can go all the way up to 150 psi, at which point a valve up there blows off and relieves the pressure.
But that actually didn't actually completely solve the problem
The major problem was that this .... screw right here was turned way to far in.
And the pump would keep pumping all the time. I've turned that out a little bit
and now I've got it set so the pump will stop pumping completely at 120 psi so it's
not blowing air or anything. Now let's see if i can demonstrate this.
So we turn the key on. Start the engine
*engine starting*
There we go
close this valve
It's stopped.
It's no longer pumping
So now when I open the valve
*hissing air*
It'll start pumping again
When I turn it of the engine stops that will start to bleed off
There we go. It's working exactly how it's supposed to.
Yeah, I've got Arthur here. We're going to go up to the mine and see if we can drill some holes
Arthur: We got a good air compressor behind us. Gonna do some serious mining
and it's a very scenic drive.
Couple a miles.
Arthur: Yeah, tires good got like a foot.
Cody: phone's ringing!
Arthur: Oh Cody's phone is ringing. I gotta answer it
Arthur: Wait you can't text and drive huh sucks to be you.
Arthur: Oh, whoa! Cody: Hey, we're here. Arthur: We made it. Still all in one piece. Perfect.
Cody: You can see this rubber gasket here is really worn and old and cracked
and I'm actually going to replace this probably gonna replace most of them on
this hose. Just stick this in there just like that. That's ready to hook up to
another hose. So I'm just wiring the 120 volt vacuum here so now when I turn the
generator on I should have air.
Arthur: There you go.
Cody: Where's my (inaudible)?
Arthur: Right here.
Cody: Hello
Arthur: Can be good. Good luck. Cody: Know what? I can undo this. There, I can breathe.
If you'll hook up to the hose. Maybe I can carry the drill in there.
Ok, so here we are at the back of the mine
here's the end of my breathing hose as you can see we've got air coming through.
Cody: Do you have that oil can? Arthur: Ah, where is the oil? I can go run out and get it. Outside.
Oil can.
Arthur: You got your earplugs?
Cody: You know what? I don't. Arthur: Here you go
Alright. Air compressor is now on. Wish Cody best of luck as he starts drilling back there.
Let's get out of here soon as we can. It's gonna start to get dusty out there
*Jack hammering noise*
Arthur: Need a (unintelligible)?
Cody: Yeah
Arthur: Boy, you can taste it
Cody: Can you help me fix that?
*Jack hammering noise*
It's the next day my arms are really sore from running this thing yesterday so I
don't really want to run it again today I was going to put this longer rod in
there but you know what? Let's save that for another time when I've actually got
a jig set up in here to hold the drill so that I don't have to do it by hand
holding even this short bit was a lot of work and... So I got a relief hole there
and I'm going to set up these two possibly that one and this one all the
same time so it just crushes in on it and then these ones are gonna go next.
Got some blasting caps where the delay electrical signal in with the fuse is a
little bit longer as with this one pretty much no delay.
Stick this down in there.
Arthur: This is good stick of dynamite right there.
Cody: I know it won't go off but it still makes me nervous Arthur: yeah Cody: alright, good to go.
Here's our little stick of powder in a paper tube and this was the wire as a short delay let's
stick it right there.
Use my rod to stick it in. There it is all the way to the back. Arthur: Perfect Cody: Ain't that slick. All right. Let's load the rest of 'em.
so there it is. All the holes are loaded and wired up.
You can see I packed clay into the hole to hold pressure. These are all going to go first.
These ones around it are going to second. At least that's the idea. Let's go out and touch it off.
Alright guys. Cody want big boom.
Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Three two one
*series of explosions*
Oh man that was beautiful!
*Series of explosions*
*series of explosions*
Ok, so what I've done is I actually left the hose part way into the mine. That way
I can turn the air compressor on and blow the smoke out. So here we go.
Turn this on.
*engine starting*
Yeah that's making it move.
Arthur: Awesome Cody: Wonderful. Going to clear out a lot faster.
Alright let's let it air out for a while.
It's still kinda dusty in here but we gotta
go soon. We can't let it settle any longer. I'm wearing a respirator so I'm pretty much
okay. Let's see what we got.
oh yeah it's definitely moved. So there's a bit of an ore vein right there that we've exposed.
Excellent!
There's a hole. Oh we've got a whole cavity going down there there's a piece of hard
quartz right there. See this?
That's one thing I was hitting before but now you take that crack there and
over there so it looks like I can get out of there now. I bet ya that's got some
ore in it. Yeah, it looks like it was a successful blast. I'm gonna head out now
hope you all enjoyed. I'll see you next time.
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