Stuff you have made today

[Ashley Burton]

I do it myself although there is very little in the way of electronics other than connecting things together so basically just wiring and configuring.
The first retrofit I did was a manual Bridgeport and it was a bit of a mess, the next a CNC Bridgeport and I improved a bit as I was starting to realise how best to do things, the lathe was next and then I think I made a coil winder for a client and then the Chiron and lastly the plasma. Have also helped a friend do a few machines and every time I do one I improve as I see how to do things better.
This will be a bit different as it is more of an interface of a unit rather than connecting lots of different things up.

Not sure if @8ob is talking about the software programming? But would be interested to know if it takes a genius to setup a cut program? Computers aren't my strong point either

 

[Hood]

Not sure if @8ob is talking about the software programming? But would be interested to know if it takes a genius to setup a cut program? Computers aren't my strong point either

Not too sure what you mean, are you meaning to get a part coded so that the CNC will cut it?
If so then it can be as easy as typing a line or two into the MDI line (manual Data Input) or if the part is more complex then some controls have conversational controls where you type in values and the code is produced. For more complex things you can use CAM and get the code that way.
Someone asked about that before, think @slim_boy_fat and I did a quick screengrab video to show how easy it was.

Here is an example of conversational

Here is a quick part for lathe from drawing to cam to code.

 

[pressbrake1]

Made a mobile pressbrake tool . I’ve got to put some lips in some parts in situ. Top tool a bit light but it’s all made from scrap
Fired up my butler 18” toolroom shaper

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Not too sure what you mean, are you meaning to get a part coded so that the CNC will cut it?
If so then it can be as easy as typing a line or two into the MDI line (manual Data Input) or if the part is more complex then some controls have conversational controls where you type in values and the code is produced. For more complex things you can use CAM and get the code that way.
Someone asked about that before, think @slim_boy_fat and I did a quick screengrab video to show how easy it was.

Here is an example of conversational

Here is a quick part for lathe from drawing to cam to code.

I have to admit, that once you get your head around the software to get a drawing out to code for a machine to cut, then the job is quite easy. I don't do much drawing, I get the drawing files from the engineers as dxf's and process them from there. However since I have gotten my head around it much better it seem to be quite simple now, compared to before. The more you do the better you get and also the more you do, you improve the processes (feeds, speeds) knowing the capabilities of your machinery. Still, this takes time and the more toys you have the more you have to do and learn. My hat off to you @Hood for your capabilities. I still only have a plasma and am relieved to have that at my desposal, would I like to have more, YES, but there has to be a requirement for them, not to mention I am running out of space

 

[pressbrake1]

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Not too sure what you mean, are you meaning to get a part coded so that the CNC will cut it?
If so then it can be as easy as typing a line or two into the MDI line (manual Data Input) or if the part is more complex then some controls have conversational controls where you type in values and the code is produced. For more complex things you can use CAM and get the code that way.
Someone asked about that before, think @slim_boy_fat and I did a quick screengrab video to show how easy it was.

Here is an example of conversational

Here is a quick part for lathe from drawing to cam to code.

I enquired about Delcam once to go with a new cnc mill I was buying. This was in 2012 . The initial payment and a years subscription came to more than the brand new mill!!

 

[Hood]

I have to admit, that once you get your head around the software to get a drawing out to code for a machine to cut, then the job is quite easy. I don't do much drawing, I get the drawing files from the engineers as dxf's and process them from there. However since I have gotten my head around it much better it seem to be quite simple now, compared to before. The more you do the better you get and also the more you do, you improve the processes (feeds, speeds) knowing the capabilities of your machinery. Still, this takes time and the more toys you have the more you have to do and learn. My hat off to you @Hood for your capabilities. I still only have a plasma and am relieved to have that at my desposal, would I like to have more, YES, but there has to be a requirement for them, not to mention I am running out of space

Ha ha you are running out of room, now that is funny, you should try and work from my workshop

 

[Hood]

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I enquired about Delcam once to go with a new cnc mill I was buying. This was in 2012 . The initial payment and a years subscription came to more than the brand new mill!!

It is not cheap for CAD/CAM
I haven't upgraded for a long time. Keep threatening to upgrade BobCAD but just as I have just about got the funds something comes along and swallows them up.
Maybe one day

 

[Mikes]

View attachment 165621 View attachment 165622 View attachment 165623 Made a mobile pressbrake tool . I’ve got to put some lips in some parts in situ. Top tool a bit light but it’s all made from scrap
Fired up my butler 18” toolroom shaper

Good to see someone else using a shaper. One of the most useful machine tools. Shame so many of them were scrapped when everyone wanted to use just milling machines. Don't see many around these days.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Nothing special, just a wooden chair.
What you can't see are the brass dowels and brass sleeves what replaced the failed wooden ones.

The man you turned them down for me was well know in my town as a grumpy missable person. I got to know him and found out he was a keen machinist who had fallen on bad times, bad luck. Sadly he passed away in the first week of January. This is the last project I was working on with him. It is now complete, were it goes now, depends on his family.

There are 3 bits of new wood in the rebuild, any one spot them?



The off cuts are being turned into wooden Lilliput cottages. In this case, in paint, 2 cottages and a light house.

 

[Bucks]

 

[Maker]

One of these:
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1" BSPT on the outside and 1/4" BSPP inside, its for a water drain tap on a Lister D.

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I offset the tailstock behind center and turned it between centers to get the taper. The original plan was to just drill and tap a 1" iron stop plug but I couldn't think how to hold it in the chuck to drill it (Can't fit a 12mm drill in my pillar drill) so I went for the easier option.
The ends of the threads need dressing with a small file but I'll leave that for my dad when he fits it.

Dad sent me this today;

More by luck than judgement, it's just about perfect.

 

[pressbrake1]

Good to see someone else using a shaper. One of the most useful machine tools. Shame so many of them were scrapped when everyone wanted to use just milling machines. Don't see many around these days.

A lot went to india and Pakistan. I didn't use the shaper out of nostalgia , it was the quickest and easiest way to cut a 87 degree vee in a gnarly old piece of toolsteel.

 

[steviec_lj]

I made some holes disappear on my Pajero.

Rough shape on the bench but most of it was beaten in to shape on the vehicle. Had to stop every 15 minutes to let the CO2 cylinder and regulator thaw out a little.

 

[bert]

Today I made some speed holes on my hillclimb car

 

[DennisCA]

Cobbled together a carbide grinder/sharpener for scraping inserts.

Later I think I will make a real, adjustable table for it and other refinements, for now this will do. Have 1000, 1500 and 3000 grit diamond plates.

The rotor was removed and the diameter turned down on the lathe so the diamond plates would fit.

 

[pressbrake1]

I do it myself although there is very little in the way of electronics other than connecting things together so basically just wiring and configuring.
The first retrofit I did was a manual Bridgeport and it was a bit of a mess, the next a CNC Bridgeport and I improved a bit as I was starting to realise how best to do things, the lathe was next and then I think I made a coil winder for a client and then the Chiron and lastly the plasma. Have also helped a friend do a few machines and every time I do one I improve as I see how to do things better.
This will be a bit different as it is more of an interface of a unit rather than connecting lots of different things up.

Any chance on some more info on that control unit, I’m sniffing around a matsuura 1000 with obsolete control

 

[Hitch]

Knocked this up for the kitchen. 25mm solid oak.
Timber started out as the bar at the village pub. Now ripped out, soon to become another Coop.

 

[Hood]

Any chance on some more info on that control unit, I’m sniffing around a matsuura 1000 with obsolete control

The one I have just got is a SZGH CNC1000TDC-2
It is a 2 axis lathe control but they do Mill controls which are basically the same setup just different software.
Output is Step/Dir so would require you update the servo drives as I would presume the Matsura would be analogue.
I have Mach3 with a CSMIO/IP-A control on the Chiron and it is analogue output.

 

[pressbrake1]

The one I have just got is a SZGH CNC1000TDC-2
It is a 2 axis lathe control but they do Mill controls which are basically the same setup just different software.
Output is Step/Dir so would require you update the servo drives as I would presume the Matsura would be analogue.
I have Mach3 with a CSMIO/IP-A control on the Chiron and it is analogue output.

I had a quick look on YouTube and found a video where it looks like he bought a complete kit with servos.
I’m also getting a urge to build a cnc lathe from scratch

 

[Hood]

I had a quick look on YouTube and found a video where it looks like he bought a complete kit with servos.
I’m also getting a urge to build a cnc lathe from scratch

Yes they can do the whole lot.
I was going to be building myself a small travel heavy duty lathe at one time, got some heavy duty linear guides for it at the same time as I got a turret for the present lathe but never got it done and it is not going to happen now