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Hawkeye,

Nice job. Can I suggest that you saturate the holder with oil. Timber will hold moisture and lead to tears.

When I made one years ago for R8 collets they were refitting a bank locally and I picked up some of the bullet proof laminated polycarbonate screens. They are about 1 1/2" thick and one piece made a very nice holder :)

(04-26-2014, 09:20 PM)Hawkeye Wrote: [ -> ]I got a big tooling order in on Thursday. I love it when my ship ... ment comes in. This morning, I got some time to make a holder for the set of 5C collets. I had a chunk of 2 x 12, so I worked out a layout that would hold all 29 collets , plus a few spares. It really helps to mark out all of the sizes on the wood so that you can put them in order as you unpack them.


When I was almost done cleaning all of the collets, I found a duplicate. I had two 15/16" and no 15/32". Pretty easy to see how that could happen. The 5/16" is in the spin indexer because I already used it on a project.

Great way to do it, saves on the cost of the metal ones they charge too much for, and gets rid of one more piece of the big piles of lumber scraps we all have kicking around.

got to thinking about a laser edge finder on the router last night and after watching a couple tube videos and knowing that I had a laser somewhere that I had bought a couple years ago for a project, I got up this morning and installed it on the router, still need to find the micro toggle switch I have hiding somewhere. but its on and working.

Hey Dave, a more powerful laser and you wouldn't even need the router. Sorry

(04-27-2014, 03:33 PM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]Hey Dave, a more powerful laser and you wouldn't even need the router. Sorry

takes a pretty big laser to cut 1 inch plate

(04-27-2014, 07:41 PM)dallen Wrote: [ -> ]takes a pretty big laser to cut 1 inch plate

Odd, I thought you were planning to do this

(03-30-2014, 02:11 PM)dallen Wrote: [ -> ]I'm hoping it turns out ok, I want it to cut casting patterns with.
DA

Your patterns are made from 1 inch plate?

(04-28-2014, 05:42 AM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]Your patterns are made from 1 inch plate?

most are made from scrap lumber that I pickup for nothing, probably because I'm too cheap to buy new lumber

But if I was going to cut 1" plate I would use a plasma which is the much cheaper option for cutting metal. Except for my trusty old Victor which will do a lot thicker stuff then I".

Its so simple it might not even count as a project..haha..
A keyring
Also made a small, similar tag for microplane.

Decided to do a bit of routine maintenance on my tractor mounted flail mower - I knew the main shaft bearings were on the way out, so ordered a new pair. They arrived this morning so started stripping it down, only to find one side was utterly trashed. No ball bearings left in the case at all. The shaft presumably was being supported by the dual V belts from above, or it would have made even more noise - not that you can hear a lot over the noise of a tractor !

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Spent a long time trying to remove the bearing inner race and ended up having to cut it off with oxy-acetylene.

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Got it all off only to find that they'd sent the wrong bearing - replacement being delivered tomorrow hopefully

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Marius
Not always easy to keep the letters in line, so how did you do it?

DaveH