Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace
14.02 2020, Mytilene, Lesvos
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Assembling Compressor
04.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana
The compressor is almost finished. For this time the decision was made to orient the oven horizontally, not vertically as in Precious Plastic blueprin... | 
New Oven
26.07 2019, Ada Ciganlija
We got a new oven which is something bigger and more solid then the one we are already using. We separated it and brought to the Praksa workshop. When... | 
Sealing the Oven
05.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade
Sealing the oven with the high heat
resistance silicon. In that way we hope
oven will maintain better the heat and leak
less energy, so as the poss... |
Putting Isolation to the Compressor
26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
stone wool isolation has to be cut so to leave place for passing all the
wiring and ventilation tube.. | 
Putting Isolation to the Compressor
26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
All electric installations are set so we started
putting
stone wool isolation around the oven. Stone wool
was purchased in Uradi Sam departmat st... | 
Putting Isolation to the Compressor
26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
Attaching isolation on the compressor has to be performed outdoors
as and with the required caution as the stone wool could result toxic. | 
Drilling hole for grounding wire
25.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
A hole is drilled for securing
the connection from the grounding
wire from mains power supply to
the built in grounding terminals
in the oven |
Grounding wire connected
25.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
Grounding wire connected and
secured. Also note connections to the two heating
elements on the near (right) side and the single
element on the f... | 
connecting the heaters with the thermostat
21.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
Rear view of the oven. All heating elements are
wired in parallel. The loose exposed wires are
grounding terminals and will be connected to the
... | 
digital thermostat arrived
17.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
digital thermostat arrived from
kupujem/prodajem
https://www.kupujemprodajem.com/Digitalni-termostat-Rex-C-100-
PID-SSR-40A-K-tip-senzor-57751797-o... | 
compressing platform completed
15.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
view of the compressor machine with all the parts
assembled - except the electrical parts and the
insulation that are yet to come |
compressing platform tube
10.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
view of the positioned tube that raises
compressing platform | 
compressing platform mechanism
10.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
view of the compressing platform mechanism without
the oven | 
grinding the guiding tube
08.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
grinding welds that are attaching guiding tube to
a stand | 
welding the guiding tube
08.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
view of the guiding tube being welded on to a stand |
top panel for the compressing platform
05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
preparation for the welding | 
grinding the found tube
05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
grinding the found tube that will be used in
the mechanism of the compressing platform as a
guidance | 
drilling the hole in the bottom wall of the oven
05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
drilling the hole for the compressing platform tube | 
completing the oven frame
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
the oven frame is welded onto the oven unit |
the completed oven stand
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
the oven legs of the oven stand have been
welded | 
building oven stand
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
the legs of the the oven stand are welded | 
side view of oven
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
side view showing oven door and gas exhaust
pipe | 
oven and oven stand
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
oven frame and oven stand , ready to be
welded together |
griding the oven frame before welding
02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
the surfaces to be welded are ground down
to remove old welding bumps, thus ensuring
the parts fit together | 
the oven
15.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
Oven unit is extracted from second hand
cooker, and is ready to be worked on.
Due to the design constraints of the compressor,
the oven will be ... | 
building the oven frame
15.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
we ordered all metal parts for the structure for 7.500RSD.
first step in making structure was to weld metal sections
together to form the oven sup... | 
disassembling the cooker
14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
we got the 2nd hand cooker for 3.000RSD through
Kupindo.com and it is disassembled in order to
extract the oven |
cleaning the oven parts
14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
the oven is disassembled, and its parts need deep
cleaning as its covered with a tick layer of fat | 
taking the measures for the structure
14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace
our oven is of different size from the one given in PP
instructions, so we have to calculate and adapt
measures for the new structure we are going... |
