04-20-2014, 07:07 PM
Got an hour & half to play in the shop. Started a brake actuator for Neil (expat) made out of 316 stainless. It's just the threaded blank, I still have to shorten the thread length to eliminate my center hole, mill the two flats on the tip of the thread, finish the thread relief groove and finish the head. Not sure how I'm going to make the 7mm radius yet. I haven't yet made or bought a ball turner, so I may just take it over to my pal Rollie Gaucher and have him turn the radius.
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It really should have been just a 45 minute job (or less) to get it to this point, but having to change gears to do metric threads (M8x1.25) takes time.
It really should have been just a 45 minute job (or less) to get it to this point, but having to change gears to do metric threads (M8x1.25) takes time.