Stuff you have made today

[Cheesie]

Was asked to make this they can be bought from ebay from the UK but postage was £25 on top of 25 for the part lol

 

[Maker]

It wouldn't be Christmas without Hot Christmas Buns.

 

[Dr.Al]

The top two of these:

This has been on my list for years: the bolts that hold the top slide on the M250 were a bit past it when I got it and it's really only been held in place with one screw for the last five years. Today I finally got round to making some replacements out of silver steel. Looking at that photo, it looks like the top right one has been welded or something, but that's probably just a bit of swarf that fell on it: they were turned from 20 mm round silver steel bar.

 

[Pete.]

The top two of these:

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This has been on my list for years: the bolts that hold the top slide on the M250 were a bit past it when I got it and it's really only been held in place with one screw for the last five years. Today I finally got round to making some replacements out of silver steel. Looking at that photo, it looks like the top right one has been welded or something, but that's probably just a bit of swarf that fell on it: they were turned from 20 mm round silver steel bar.

Those are pretty good looking threads and finish for silver steel. It can produce a torn look when machined in it's unhardened state.

Are you going to harden and temper them?

 

[Dr.Al]

Those are pretty good looking threads and finish for silver steel. It can produce a torn look when machined in it's unhardened state.

Thanks. It was pretty horrible to machine, but I just took lots and lots of passes when single point cutting the threads.

Are you going to harden and temper them?

I haven't decided yet to be honest. The stock ones are quite hard (although a file bites into them fairly easily). I don't know whether they need to be hard really. What would you do?

 

[Pete.]

I'd harden them then draw them down until they were just about file-able. Not too brittle but not so soft that they lose their shape and start tearing up the cross slide ring. I don't see too much harm in leaving them as made though.

 

[Hood]

A friend gave me a hand on a big(ish) job and because I do lots of bits and pieces for him he wouldn't take any payment. I remembered he was always moaning about the socket that he uses for his hatch always leaves rusty streaks on the bolt heads so today I made up a 24mm hex hatch key from 316.

 

[Kram]

I always found silver steel turns with a great finish, its a high carbon steel

Annealed should be adequate, if you look up the spec its roughtly 27HRC, comparable to an 8.8 bolt.

 

[Cheesie]

sent a powersteering resivoir to a guy for him to mark where he wanted pipes bracket etc sent it back and finished it, also turned this to **** taking another fine cut of it,

16mm feed pipe

 

[northwest]

Not today but made this so I can fill the cases that have .172" necks took a bit of time but saves a lot of grief. and bad language!

 

[Johnnybravo]

Thread milled a couple of adapters so I can use the collet chuck on the small Cnc lathe and I can fit the new hydraulic chuck as well. Sick and tired of the Autoblock hydraulic chuck that obliterates one part in ten for no apparent reason. Have just got the gauge and test point hose so I can lower the main hydraulic pressure at the same time. Should totally transform this lathe

 

[Brad93]

Not today but made this so I can fill the cases that have .172" necks took a bit of time but saves a lot of grief. and bad language!

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did you machine from solid?

 

[BirdmanJohn]

Latest bit of spoon upcycling -

 

[BarrieJ]

This one has 4 down speeds and reverse
I was going to replace it as part of the spruce up with something shiny but it just makes me smile


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Early Mk2 1300 Ford Cortina, if my memory serves me right. The gearbox went into a Dutton kit car, a whole world of aggravation, given the engine mounts weren't anywhere near opposite one another. Came from a scrapyard in West Kingsdown, near Brands Hatch. They had a dog with marginally less charity than the Tory party.

 

[northwest]

did you machine from solid?

Yes I did?

 

[Onoff]

Came from a scrapyard in West Kingsdown, near Brands Hatch. They had a dog with marginally less charity than the Tory party.

Barwicks next to the Gamecock pub?

 

[Gragson]

Early Mk2 1300 Ford Cortina, if my memory serves me right. The gearbox went into a Dutton kit car, a whole world of aggravation, given the engine mounts weren't anywhere near opposite one another. Came from a scrapyard in West Kingsdown, near Brands Hatch. They had a dog with marginally less charity than the Tory party.

Good to know the provenance and adventure! The Cortina knob will certainly stay.
It does very good work, although I've not got round to bolting it to the floor yet, as my mate at Jodrell Bank does not think the earth will spin off its axis anytime soon.



Hope you're well

 

[6ply]

Made a holder (to be clamped in a bench vice) for setting up 40int tooling. The aluminium blank came from the scrap bin at work (next to the forge) and was quite porous but fine for this job. If I ever get the chance I may try melting some blanks for myself, hopefully with greater success.

 

[6ply]

Good to know the provenance and adventure! The Cortina knob will certainly stay.
It does very good work, although I've not got round to bolting it to the floor yet, as my mate at Jodrell Bank does not think the earth will spin off its axis anytime soon.

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Hope you're well

Nice drill! I have drill envy now.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

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16mm feed pipe

Do you baffle the tanks or leave them plain internally? Also is the ribbing cut or rolled on a bead roller?