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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Kennyv - 06-27-2015
Nice work guys I cant touch that today....... Lol.. Primitive Pete story
Cigarette ern castings .
Dont laugh yet. I have a funny story ..Alright u can laugh at the story but not the parts ..at least not till they are fished . Trust me their is a reason why im gona do this and moral to the story. Ok today im working drilling and tapping 4-40 holes in an explosion proof housing 4 holes each 25 housings 100 holes . Yada yada yada boring!!! Im thinkin about my projects at home one is to repair an ole craftsman grinder that I picked up a few weeks ago . Its bare no sides no wheels, a rotating spindle frame with a motor and one nut. I am going to utilize this one w/ a course and fine stone wheel . And convert my old grinder I made into a carbide wheel grinder and build a tool grinding fixture for it. . Anyway so as im doin this I look over at the bench grinder and think hey thats the same grinder . I know im gona make sides for mine at one point . First I was thinking some nice ones naaa I dont have time for that too much more important things to do at home. My first idea was to make simple ¼ alum plate quick an ez cut profile and mounting holes with a pack man mouth cutout . Than as I pull off one side I say hey why dont I castem with a few ladles of metal from that friggen machine thats been making me sick for 19 months now. ( Long story ) improper ventilation poorly run , and the fumes turn into violate compounds.
We do have 2 blowers on machine but no hood. I built blowers , squirrel cage to vent out side, made fans out of air conditioner condenser units to create positive air flow all on my own doins . Been a nightmare .. the worst part I must of fixed the dang machine a doozen times too eventho I hate it .Anyways so I figure the machine owes me. Sooooo my next thought is im gona make a casting somehow from this equivalent side im holdin in my hand . But I need to put it in something right? Next thought that comes to my mind is the cigarette ern rightoutside the door of shop. Its a flower pot with sand.. I fig hey ill try it one side cavity . . If it dont work ill trow the hunk back in the pot..in all but 30 seconds scrape out the buts lay my pattern ladel in 2-3 scoops swish it around Wala. it worked (primitive one sided cavity but itel work) let cool off rinsed and repeat the other side . Drilled a few mounting holes from original pattern cut off the tangs . And brought home a momentum / silverneer or something like that always to remember...lol well thats my story . Next im gona mill out the inside pocket for the spindle nut clean it up a bit and paint it .mount it on grinder when finished rebuilding it. The way I see it ill have them as a memory for a long time.
Well That's my story and im stickin to it.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 06-27-2015
long as they fit the grinder, that's all the matters, china uses bondo but the barrels full on their castings to hide the pits in the stuff they put out
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Kennyv - 06-27-2015
(06-27-2015, 09:52 PM)dallen Wrote: long as they fit the grinder, that's all the matters, china uses bondo but the barrels full on their castings to hide the pits in the stuff they put out
these will not be anything but what they are, but silver underlay and prime black .... lol
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 06-28-2015
(06-27-2015, 08:48 PM)TomG Wrote: Not a damn thing Darren. .................... Unless you count kitchen cupboards, a new chicken coup, tractor repair and barn restoration (still have the roof to do) for my son.[edited]
Tom
So you've not been up to much
DaveH
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 07-04-2015
Modified a 3/8-24UNF x 2" long socket head cap screw to be a 1-1/4" long one. I needed one to fasten the face mill to it's mating arbor for Ed. It tool longer to remove the 3-jaw chuck from the lathe and fit the collet closer setup (about 5 minutes) than it did to cutoff, face and chamfer the screw. Yeah, I probably could have just put the collet into a hex collet block and put that in the 3-jaw chuck. I've had parts spin or push back in a collet block, never in the lever operated collet closer.
After the quick job, over to the mill. Snug up the arbor, put the machine in back gear, apply the brake and torque that cutter down. Done, ships tomorrow!
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-04-2015
(07-04-2015, 06:18 PM)PixMan Wrote: After the quick job, over to the mill. Snug up the arbor, put the machine in back gear, apply the brake and torque that cutter down. Done, ships tomorrow!
tomorrow is Sunday
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-05-2015
bored out the hole in the end of this casting then threaded it.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 07-05-2015
(07-04-2015, 07:00 PM)dallen Wrote:(07-04-2015, 06:18 PM)PixMan Wrote: After the quick job, over to the mill. Snug up the arbor, put the machine in back gear, apply the brake and torque that cutter down. Done, ships tomorrow!
tomorrow is Sunday
Oops...you're right. I meant the first available US Postal Service shipping day, which is indeed Monday.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 07-05-2015
(07-05-2015, 12:40 PM)dallen Wrote: bored out the hole in the end of this casting then threaded it.
I think one needs to be logged in to that web site in order see those images because they aren't showing up. Just a guess though.
Ed
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-05-2015
let me re post them so that they will show up
this is the two images that are missing from my original post today
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let me know if they are not showing up and I'll try something else