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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Kennyv - 07-22-2015
does this count as my today was still yesterdays? lol... last nite spent till 2am cleaning dialing in and inspecting every moving part on my new lathe ... checking over all the maintenance getting er ready to take a ride .
ohh cleaned up badly rusted Axa tool holders I got with purchase of lathe (brand new used) and to my surprise they said Aloris YEA!!! than stoned clipper blades going on at 3am... found myself at 3am putting a lever on the motor door .. than went to bed .. woke up at 8am cut my hair fiddled around and went to my day Job to do it all over again ..
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Sunset Machine - 07-25-2015
Planed some parallels. Under the pic is a little video attached.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Roadracer_Al - 07-25-2015
I guess you could call this a project... I helped cook a buffet breakfast for 200 people at my athletic club today.
Last week I finished a project that had been hanging over my head. I made nut plates for the foot stretchers of a 150 year old wooden racing barge -- a 6 seat, sweep-rigged Cornish racing gig. 954 Aluminum bronze, .5" wide, 5.75" long OA, .31" thick, five 1/4-20 tapped holes, three countersunk mounting holes. 20 pieces -- 18 primary pieces, 2 spares. This was the job which I posted about breaking slitting saws. Did break 2 taps with the tapping head: I bottomed the tap in the soft jaws both times.
Gotta order some more taps & slitting saws...
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-26-2015
pulled the burner apart today to check the o-ring to make sure that it hadn't been damaged by heat the last time I used it. Well I got the pleasant surprise of finding out that the inner part of the nozzle was actually collapsed from the brass that it was made out of getting too hot.
you can see the bulge in the part in the first photo. you may have to look pretty close at the right hand end to see the damage.
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Well after finding this and not wanting to spend 25 bucks for a new one, and having a bunch of machines I grabbed the damaged one and fired up the lathe on a hunk of some nice cutting round bar and made the silver one that you see in the second photo, still need to figure out how to hold it and cut four air passages thru the threads so the air can pass thru the opening in the acron nut looking part.
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its not much, but I have the satisfaction of knowing that this one won't collapse like the store bought one did after something like 4 years of use. Plus its not ofter I get to spin up some 40 pitch threads
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-26-2015
wrench flats and air passages cut into the part
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - oldgoaly - 07-27-2015
My Wysong shear did not come with a back gauge, found a pexto one but it had damaged pinion gears. So I welded up the damaged areas, ground a tool bit to do the grooves. Dusted off the old Atlas 7b and cut some grooves / teeth. Made a video with the camera phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4XSEFpnGc
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 07-27-2015
Not a big project by any means but a quick one. I was detailing the wife's car yesterday and noticed that her floormat was pushed up under the brake and accelerator pedal. One thing I liked about her Altima was the fact that it had a small plastic retainer that the floormat attached to in order to keep it in place and prevent it from "floormat creep". I worry about this with my wife because she moves her leg around a lot in her commute due to the lymphedema in her left leg and it is a safety concern to have that floormat pushed up under the pedals. I asked her about it and she said it had been like that for a few weeks now. I decided to address it right away and machine a new retainer.
Here is what I came up with, simple 1"x.125" aluminum bent at an angle to match the floorboard. I then machined a small plug that was tapped with 10-32 threads so it could be retained onto the aluminum bracket. The plug measures .375" at the base, reduced to .260" at the main body (same as original) and then I machined a small .250" flat in the side to act as a retaining void to keep the floormat attached to the round plug.
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Newly machined retainer in the foreground with the broken original in the background.
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Mounted in place and completed.
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All in all a pretty quick and easy job just thought I would post it up.
Mike.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 07-27-2015
Nice Mike - I probably would have glued it in place or tossed it out the window - but that's just me
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 07-27-2015
Neat job Mike
DaveH
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 07-27-2015
Thanks guys. Like I said, nothing too special just a quick job.
Mike.