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Still have to design it and fold itToo easy when you have a cnc plasma
we are calling it the space ratchet, The ISS has a 3d printer and NASA started experimenting some years ago emailing them files to print of tools and bits and bobs they need. This ratchets file was made public. No reason just thought it would be cool to print with the kids. Its actually pretty nice in the hand and going in the tool box.
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I have been re deploying spanner racks this afternoon, to my surprise they are Bot, I did not know that I had anything made by Bot. Yours do look better as they hold more spanners and it looks like you have folded them out of thicker sheet.
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Yes, knowing where the file came from it is very very cool.
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Today I made (or at least nearly finished making) four planes (based on an idea from a book):
Made out of beech, walnut and gauge plate. They're for ploughing grooves in box/drawer sides for a base. One day I'll get a plough plane, but most uses for it will probably be this and it would take me far longer to set up a plough plane than it would to grab one of these planes and plough a groove. They're in pairs so that I can pick the appropriate one for a given grain direction: two make 3 mm grooves, 3 mm deep, 3 mm from the fence; the other two are similar but replace all the 3s with 5s.
After a fair amount of fettling and getting them set up, I did some test grooves in a couple of offcuts of oak (visible in the picture). In those short lengths, it takes about 10 seconds to plough a groove. I doubt I could even find the right router cutter in that time, let alone set up a router, so I think these will get a fair amount of use.
They'll get a coat of oil once I've finished fettling.
I made some spare cutters in other sizes too (although I've only hardened & tempered the 3 mm and 5 mm ones). For some reason the 3 mm and 10 mm ones didn't make it into this photo:
Here's another view:
and an in-progress photo showing how they're constructed:
Made out of beech, walnut and gauge plate. They're for ploughing grooves in box/drawer sides for a base. One day I'll get a plough plane, but most uses for it will probably be this and it would take me far longer to set up a plough plane than it would to grab one of these planes and plough a groove. They're in pairs so that I can pick the appropriate one for a given grain direction: two make 3 mm grooves, 3 mm deep, 3 mm from the fence; the other two are similar but replace all the 3s with 5s.
After a fair amount of fettling and getting them set up, I did some test grooves in a couple of offcuts of oak (visible in the picture). In those short lengths, it takes about 10 seconds to plough a groove. I doubt I could even find the right router cutter in that time, let alone set up a router, so I think these will get a fair amount of use.
They'll get a coat of oil once I've finished fettling.
I made some spare cutters in other sizes too (although I've only hardened & tempered the 3 mm and 5 mm ones). For some reason the 3 mm and 10 mm ones didn't make it into this photo:
Here's another view:
and an in-progress photo showing how they're constructed:
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Made my saw moveable.... The hard way as always
Bought countersunk M8 bolts for the castors but the heads are bigger than my widest countersink bit...
The M16 threaded bar had to be turned down to 13mm as i have a gap between 13 and 19 mm in the bits department...
Both then had to be welded in...
And lifting it the 6" to fit them would have been much easier if I had the foresight when unloading it to put it under the roof joist so I could employ my block and tackle to lift the 280kg rather than levering up 10mm at a time until I could get the trolley jack underneath
Oh well, it's all good fun
Bought countersunk M8 bolts for the castors but the heads are bigger than my widest countersink bit...
The M16 threaded bar had to be turned down to 13mm as i have a gap between 13 and 19 mm in the bits department...
Both then had to be welded in...
And lifting it the 6" to fit them would have been much easier if I had the foresight when unloading it to put it under the roof joist so I could employ my block and tackle to lift the 280kg rather than levering up 10mm at a time until I could get the trolley jack underneath
Oh well, it's all good fun
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Those are really good, thanks for the inside view, presumably the blades are bits of hss lathe tool blank?
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Neater than mine which are similar to this listing [not the Seller I got them from]
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122241412788?mkevt=1&mkcid=28&chn=ps
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Well that’s what we used to use or cut a v out of a bit of metal, and fold it back on itself.Neater than mine which are similar to this listing [not the Seller I got them from]
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122241412788?mkevt=1&mkcid=28&chn=ps
This is a bit neater and I can flog these.
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Not me, but a souless machine.
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No, they're made from gauge plate (O1 tool steel). I had some 3 × 30 mm bar, which made all the cutters (most of which I haven't bothered to harden/temper yet) except the 5 mm ones: most are 3 mm thick; I made the 3 mm ones a bit thicker (4 mm) for strength. The 5 mm ones are actually 5 × 5 mm as I had some 5 × 5 mm gauge plate so that made it *really* easy.
I milled them to thickness and added the 25° bevel on my mini-mill, stamped the width into the blade (which was probably pointless, but what the heck), then hardened, tempered and sharpened them. Sharpening was fairly quick given I'd already milled the bevel to about the right angle.
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Phase 3 and 4 complete, I have X,Y and Z on my POS mill now. I needed a relocation plate to move the control box for fitting the Z axis scale. I started marking out a piece of 3mm plate then decided it was a perfectly good excuse for overengineering so used the mill. 
Centre drilled all the holes then drilled and tapped as required. So nice to skip back and forth to each position on a tool change without worrying about backlash or changing tools multiple times on each position.
Well worth the £359 I paid, has increased the value of my mill to £364. Downside is I might need my Father's drawing board out if the loft now.
I needed a relocation plate to move the control box for fitting the Z axis scale. I started marking out a piece of 3mm plate then decided it was a perfectly good excuse for overengineering so used the mill. Centre drilled all the holes then drilled and tapped as required. So nice to skip back and forth to each position on a tool change without worrying about backlash or changing tools multiple times on each position.
Well worth the £359 I paid, has increased the value of my mill to £364. Downside is I might need my Father's drawing board out if the loft now.
