Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Highpower]

Exciting day today! NOT.

I had a small plastic cover that has been bouncing around in the back of my car for a couple of weeks now. It finally got to the point where it was starting to bug me...

It's just an access cover for the high mount stop light on the back window of the car. The little plastic fastener that holds the cover in place decided to break in half and gravity did the rest. I was going to make a new one from aluminum but of course didn't have the right size stock on hand. So I went with brass instead.

Marked out the spacing on the brass round and turned the sections to size, leaving a little extra on each end for support and to be able to hold it in a collet.

   

Then over to the mill to cut the flats of the "key". The square 5-C collet block made quick work of that by just rotating the block in the vice.

   

With that done it was back to the lathe to part off and face the support ends. Over to the mill again to cut a screwdriver slot in the end cap to be able to turn the fastener and lock it in place. Just a plunge cut with a key seat cutter. (I forgot to get a pic of that. )

   

Not much to show for all that back and forth...