06-07-2014, 08:33 PM
Got back from Waukesha WI around midnight last night. Spent about 4 hours in the shop today trying to finish up quick small jobs.
Started by finishing the 316ss motorcycle handlebar ends Neil had roughed out. Made a steel arbor to mount them to, touched up an existing brazed carbide corner rounding tool, set the compound on the lathe to about 4-1/2º (indicator match to the existing sample), turned the tapers and radii. Then made a couple of 1-1/2" long 8mm pins with 12mm heads, showed Neil how to use an edgefinder and how to use my Albrecht sensitive drill chuck to drill the cotter/split pin holes in the pins. He made the pair of 6mm pins with 10mm heads.
We also had to drill/mill out a broken stainless steel screw from one of the two cylinders from his Yamaha RZ350 bike motor. We stripped the Kurt vise off the mill, set up an 8" precision angle iron, and strapped the sleeved aluminum water-jacketed cylinder housing to it, tipped the head of the Alliant mill to match the angle of the hole we had to fix. It looked OK with spotting it, but drilled a little off center. I used a 13/64" center cutting 4-flute solid carbide end mill to clean out the broken M6 screw. Success!
Of course without pictures none of it ever happened. Neil can vouch for me, or if you don't believe it I don't care. ;)
Started by finishing the 316ss motorcycle handlebar ends Neil had roughed out. Made a steel arbor to mount them to, touched up an existing brazed carbide corner rounding tool, set the compound on the lathe to about 4-1/2º (indicator match to the existing sample), turned the tapers and radii. Then made a couple of 1-1/2" long 8mm pins with 12mm heads, showed Neil how to use an edgefinder and how to use my Albrecht sensitive drill chuck to drill the cotter/split pin holes in the pins. He made the pair of 6mm pins with 10mm heads.
We also had to drill/mill out a broken stainless steel screw from one of the two cylinders from his Yamaha RZ350 bike motor. We stripped the Kurt vise off the mill, set up an 8" precision angle iron, and strapped the sleeved aluminum water-jacketed cylinder housing to it, tipped the head of the Alliant mill to match the angle of the hole we had to fix. It looked OK with spotting it, but drilled a little off center. I used a 13/64" center cutting 4-flute solid carbide end mill to clean out the broken M6 screw. Success!
Of course without pictures none of it ever happened. Neil can vouch for me, or if you don't believe it I don't care. ;)