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I finally finished something! - wawoodman - 11-06-2015

I finally completed a project! It's a toolrest for my vintage Jet 8" grinder, with an extra-large table. Once I finish the South Bend style bit holder, I should be able to sharpen a little more accurately.

And the coolest thing? I only had to make one part twice!   Smiley-dancenana

(Yes, I shamelessly modeled it after the Veritas in the background!)

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 11-07-2015

That is very nice Mike Smiley-signs107   Thumbsup 
Smiley-eatdrink004 
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 11-07-2015

I agree - looks like a bought one.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Vinny - 11-07-2015

I think it looks better than the Veritas.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 11-07-2015

(11-06-2015, 01:49 PM)f350ca Wrote: Thanks Kenny, actually a V-four and a 350Ci.

Bad news Greg. You may have a problem with your compressor warming up on cold starts. Chin

You are missing the heat riser tube... Rotfl

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - arvidj - 11-08-2015

As noted in another post I've decided to try making machinable wax. Got the ingredients together. I weighed them not so much for "accuracy" as to keep a  record for repeatably.

65.2 oz. paraffin
16.3 oz. virgin HDPE pellets
3.3 EVA - ethylene-vinyl acetate tubing

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I set up the hotplate, kettle and molds on the garage floor ...

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Turned on the hotplate and and started adding blocks of paraffin. They started to melt and eventually I got them all in the kettle. The temperature seem to be pretty stable around 165F (75C) during this process.

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After all the paraffin had melted I turned the hotplate up and as the paraffin temperature rose past 300F (150C) added a very small amount of HDPE pellets. It quickly became obvious that the paraffin was not hot enough to melt the HDPE as the pellets just sank to the bottom of the kettle. But once on the bottom the heat of the kettle bottom was enough to soften them into [warning, very technical term ahead] a 'goo'. I continued to sure the paraffin, scrape the goo around the bottom of the kettle and allow the temperature to rise. Eventually it got up to 350F (175C) and it looked like HDPE was beginning to dissolve.

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I let the mixture continue to heat. Even thought the documented melting point of HDPE is 266F (130C) it looked like there was some, but no a lot happening at 350F (175C). I continued to add HDPE pellets and stir the goo. I did not have a clue about the EVA tubing. It was recommended as an addition to make the HDPE less brittle and was suppose to melt at reasonably [in this context anyway] low temperatures. As it turns out the tubing was probably not a good source for EVA. I put them into the mixture and eventually brought the tempurature up to 410F (210C) which seems to have done the trick for the HDPE but was not enough to dissolve the tubing. True, it went thru an "in serious need of Viagra" stage and eventually reached the 'goo' stage but I was not able to get all of it to dissolve. Additional research for a source of EVA is a project take-away.

Not wanting to tempt fate with higher temperatures or additional time I used a metal soup ladle [Goodwill was a major tool supplier for this project] and filled the molds I had laid out. All in all the "turn the hotplate on to pour" time seemed to be about 90 minutes.

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After ensuring that everything seemed to be safely cooling I made a side trip ... metal plate gift ... Upon return I noticed that the round pours had a serious case of the 'voids' on the top but the rectangular items, though they looked like they had concave tops, did not seem to suffer as much. I used a Dremel cutoff wheel to remove the round cans from around the wax. The final results ...

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Now all I need to do is see how well this works in the lathe and my little mill.

It is suggested that machinable wax is reusable, assuming you can gather up all of the swarf and small chunks. The plan for that is to use a shopvac that I got for free on the local FreeCycle list. I cleaned it up and it will be dedicated to machinable wax cleanup, unlike the regular shopvac which is dedicated to anything that is small enough to fit up the hose and not fastened down.

Anyway, that is the plan,
Arvid

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 11-08-2015

the wax I made, I had good luck with it turning loose from Teflon coated baking pans and plastic potato salad tubs.

I used a recipe of paraffin and the blue tops off of 5 gallon water bottles, mix was a couple pounds of paraffin and as many tops as I could stand to stir in the pot, you do have to pull the Styrofoam gasket out of the tops, which you can usually get for free from some place that bottles water.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - RobWilson - 11-08-2015

Smiley-signs107 Arvid ,  nicely documented , I hope you will report back on its machining properties . A friend of mine  added a few wax crayons to add a blue colour to his batch .. 

What's your plans for the machineable wax ?  


Rob 


PS what did I win  Big Grin

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 11-09-2015

Didn't get a chance to machine anything over the weekend but I was able to get a lot of little things done in order to prepare for winter here in Northern Utah.

Friday night I winterized the fresh water system on our coach.  Saturday I changed the oil, oil filter and coolant filter then pressure washed the under-carriage before putting her to bed for a few months.
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I put the hardtop on the Jeep a few nights ago but Saturday afternoon I pulled the Jeep in and serviced it along with rotated the tires.
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Then yesterday after the wife and I returned from breakfast I threw her car on the lift to service it and rotate the tires.  We should now be good until after the holidays so I can get some other things done.
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Mike.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 11-09-2015

A mate lost one of the fairlead rollers off his vehicle winch. Made a replacement from 4140SH with delrin bushes, just what I had available. Hope he doesn't decide to lose the other three rollers now.
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