Todays Project - What did you do today?

[dallen]

(07-06-2015, 10:58 PM)PixMan Wrote: If I understand what I'm looking at David, that's a rather challenging part shape to do with manual machines. Tell me more about the part and the process, it appears well done, as all of your work is.

the part wasn't done on a machine but rather with a jewelers saw, which took 5 blades to cut it out as the .025 blades kept breaking cutting the 11 gauge plate that I used to cut the button from.

here's a photo that I snagged off the internet showing the part in place over the pins.
   

the pins in the photo actually have the side cut off so the button has a square shoulder to set on. These were done several different ways with the way that I'm doing it (which is whats shown on the print that I have show) because I want to pins and button to blend together in the joint line.

hope I got that were someone can understand it.

Also the heads of the pins in the photo are extremely thick for that they have to do, Pins in an original stick up barely a 1/16 of an inch. Which means that once I get the ends of the button (Remingtons name for the retainer) cut to fit the pins then I have a bucketful of filing to do to blend the end into the pin head.