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Windy Miller
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That looks useful. I had to google it though, never seen one before!Made a small cat's head, a bit too thin walled but it is about as large as I can fit in the steady for scale the bar it is around is 25 x 10mm
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Will see if it works tomorrow.
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Made a small cat's head, a bit too thin walled but it is about as large as I can fit in the steady for scale the bar it is around is 25 x 10mm
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Will see if it works tomorrow.
what is it for?
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Thanks just use the grub screws to clamp the work
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My plan is to turn between centres using a dog with the cat's head in the steady, anyone would think I don't like animals.
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Yes, all being well I'll post pictures tomorrow.
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today I made a model boat, well a prototype for one. a couple of weeks ago I had this to play with
and was my first thought about making a radio controlled paddle steamer using tank steering, so that each paddle is operated independantly to steer it rather than using a rudder. earlier this week I remembered seeing this boat in a Hobby's annual 30+ years ago
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and thought how neat and elegant it looked. Now I could have just bought a kit of material to make one from, but at 600mm long I'd prefer something smaller, so decided to make a hull to see if was feasible to make one 300mm long.
so first of all I carved up an offcut for wood, it started of as 38 x 63 studwork timber.
then glueing in the motor mountings, for filling styrene I use flexible bumper filler for cars and used it as an adhesive here. I was originally going to use the motors in the first picture, but used 300rpm 3v geared motors as they were half the weight.
and then to glue the "deck" on with superglue. not having a rudder means it can be sealed , this was bent from 0.25mm styrene.
and then trying the paddle covers for size and location, the paddles in the first picture were used but cut down in diameter.
then ad some radio gear
and the finished prototype against my drawing
and it floats, think weight will be a big issue, this as it stands weight 165 grams, but it did work, so thats another project to do in future
and was my first thought about making a radio controlled paddle steamer using tank steering, so that each paddle is operated independantly to steer it rather than using a rudder. earlier this week I remembered seeing this boat in a Hobby's annual 30+ years ago
Shop Paddle Steamer Plan | Hobby.uk.com Hobbys
This 1:76 scale model of an Edwardian Paddle Steamer is typical of the elegant Steamers used in the late Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries. This type of boat was widely used for summer excursions as well as for crosschannel & other regular services. The hull is made from thin plywood and...
and thought how neat and elegant it looked. Now I could have just bought a kit of material to make one from, but at 600mm long I'd prefer something smaller, so decided to make a hull to see if was feasible to make one 300mm long.
so first of all I carved up an offcut for wood, it started of as 38 x 63 studwork timber.
then glueing in the motor mountings, for filling styrene I use flexible bumper filler for cars and used it as an adhesive here. I was originally going to use the motors in the first picture, but used 300rpm 3v geared motors as they were half the weight.
and then to glue the "deck" on with superglue. not having a rudder means it can be sealed , this was bent from 0.25mm styrene.
and then trying the paddle covers for size and location, the paddles in the first picture were used but cut down in diameter.
then ad some radio gear
and the finished prototype against my drawing
and it floats, think weight will be a big issue, this as it stands weight 165 grams, but it did work, so thats another project to do in future
Bonus was it did not cost that much as he accepted my best offer...
. So now I have decent presses I can try again to offer what I wanted to try before.. 
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Marble / ball game with my 8yr old daughter. I drew up a template then let her do what she wanted in the CAD package. Then put some toolpaths in for her. Bit of birch ply and some Perspex backed with hardboard off the back of an old IKEA desk.
Need to find some balls for it now, I measured wrong with the ones I’ve got.
Machine will be in the ‘for sale’ section this weekend, just want to test it engraving on a bit of brass.
Need to find some balls for it now, I measured wrong with the ones I’ve got.
Machine will be in the ‘for sale’ section this weekend, just want to test it engraving on a bit of brass.
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Made some gears from Delrin. These are lathe headstock gears which you can't get anymore. Every once in a while someone else needs one so I make a handful at a time and sell one or two a year, not to make any money since they take so long to make it's not profitable. It's more to help out people who otherwise would have to scrap their lathe or pay silly money - and wait several weeks - for them.
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They're beautiful @Pete. What machine(s) did you use to cut the teeth? Something automated I hope?
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Dividing head and a tooth cutter on a mill?
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Do you cut them all in one go and slice them up afterwards or are they made one-by-one?
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how do you measure out the teeth positioning? Or is that lump on the left a dividing head?
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I also made some covers for the taper attachment on my lathe. It would have came with nice cast ally ones when it was new in 1942 but they are more often than not lost. I got fed up with cleaning the chips out of the TA soI knocked these up from a stainless steel door trim I salvaged off site.
Bit rough and ready but they do the trick
Bit rough and ready but they do the trick
