Todays Project - What did you do today?

[PixMan]

(12-30-2013, 08:04 PM)Mayhem Wrote:

(12-30-2013, 12:34 PM)PixMan Wrote: Darren,

Is there any way you could "reverse engineer" any of the parts and let me make them? I'm always looking for an excuse to go make chips for other people.

Thanks Ken - you know how much I like giving you excuses

The main issue is that there are some whole assemblies that are missing, so not only do I not have the part but in many cases I don't have the part it mates with either. The one part that is going to be an issue is the trip feed bracket (see below). I'm hoping a BP one will fit (or could be modified to fit).

The nut for the knee is chewed out. It looks like the knee was raised too high and the screw then tried to cut a new thread. Someone had removed the stops I will probably have to get one made, as I'm guessing that nuts will be in high demand. Unfortunately the material will cost a lot more than the replacement.

This is what the trip feed bracket should look like:


The underside of mine. showing the missing bit (actually not showing the missing bit but you know what I mean...).

I don't think I'd have any problem making a new one of those Darren. Though it probably wouldn't look exactly the same, it would work fine. Can you make a drawing of it and send it to me? Same for the elevation nut, though that one would probably be much easier. My only worry about that one would be fitting to the existing screw. I would need very good measurements of the threads, or perhaps it would be easy enough to just make BOTH parts as new.