Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

You can put it in my workshop if you want, I don't mind.

That is a great idea, when are you moving your workshop next to mine?

 

[Woody.v8]

Tidying up my truck rear light board, got sick of chasing wiring faults so started again.

 

[Onoff]

Well, one new diode later and we appear to be in business...maybe. I cheated and just put new inline crimps on.

Speed control works etc but with it set on speed 1 all 3 "traffic light" LEDs come on. Get to about speed 3 and one led turns off. I'd have expected the lights to come on one by one as the speed increases. Tbh at full pelt, speed 6, it's uncontrollable and uncomfortable, it vibrates that much. I've not yet changed the MOSFET.

Short video:

https://flic.kr/p/2kRPCnQ

 

[qwakers]

finished the steelwork
all welded up..

holes drilled to take bolts the nuts welded on top are temporary...

level being set with the bolts..

4x pieces of 2" box for the corners to be welded in, the floor can then be poured and the bolts cut off flush and puddle welded. once thats done and ground flat, the bolts will permanantly anchour it into the concrete and leave a flat surface to run the jack on..


will be structurally finished tomorrow. then just electrics and ladders or steps.. depending on what i decide.

 

[Kram]

Have you tried it under load, cutting or sanding? Itll slow down a lot when its cutting.

 

[MattF]

Have you tried it under load, cutting or sanding? Itll slow down a lot when its cutting.

This's one of those cases where not quoting a post can be momentarily confusing.

 

[RichardM]

Whilst the Chiron was doing them I started sorting out some drills, looks like I am going to have to make another one, have quite a few MT3 and MT2 to sort yet but I can't believe how many MT1's I have. Now I just have to work out where I have space in the workshop to put another drill stand

This, on top of the new aluminium tool bracket! Getting a bit worried about all this tidying up you are doing

 

[Hood]

This, on top of the new aluminium tool bracket! Getting a bit worried about all this tidying up you are doing

Rearranging, never do tidying, just look at the bench I welded it up on

 

[Fraserb]

A few recent bits

 

[RichardM]

Rearranging, never do tidying, just look at the bench I welded it up on

"It will take me longer to gather all the drills etc together than it did to make it."
It's Ok to admit you've turned the corner and started to tidy up a bit

 

[Kram]

Drilled and tapped 3 holes in this plate and pushed the old spindle bearing off. Might start reassembling tomorrow.

 

[Munkul]

Decided to take an evening out and brush up on my machining skills. The Harrison makes things really very easy, even without a DRO - everything is super stable. Really pleased how my single point threading worked out... including a very deep blind hole, about 70mm!
Decided in the end to use plain hot rolled... not the best choice but free, and good for threading practice, and by design it seems sacrificial.
Anyway, it's revived the scrapped SKF puller I got from work, and I'm pretty happy.

 

[Brad93]

Hot rolled doesn’t thread great. Was you using HSS?

 

[Brad93]

Those threads do look pretty good for mild steel though, mine are very ragged edged when using carbide thread inserts

 

[Hood]

Those threads do look pretty good for mild steel though, mine are very ragged edged when using carbide thread inserts

Shouldn't be, even at lowish rpm carbide should work well.

 

[Brad93]

Shouldn't be, even at lowish rpm carbide should work well.

On mild steel? I've never had much joy, maybe my cuts aren't deep enough or something but its literally like its tearing the steel not cutting it

 

[Munkul]

Hot rolled doesn’t thread great. Was you using HSS?

APT carbide inserts for stainless. They cut great, really sharp, and well priced too. I'll be buying more, I think. The internal threads were Yamaloy inserts from Zoro.
I bumped the compound a thou each cut to give a bit of relief on the side, it seemed to help - only cutting on one flank, so not tearing anything. Only taking it 10 thou at a time.

i also ran over it with a thread file afterwards to tidy up any rags and sharp edges but no, to be fair it was as good as could ever be expected from that hot rolled... it's pretty poor for machining I agree!

 

[Hood]

On mild steel? I've never had much joy, maybe my cuts aren't deep enough or something but its literally like its tearing the steel not cutting it

Aye, should cut fine, usually my first pass is 0.5 or 0.7 on dia and then 0.2 or 0.3 after.

 

[mtt.tr]

Aye, should cut fine, usually my first pass is 0.5 or 0.7 on dia and then 0.2 or 0.3 after.

I use a thread guide from mitsubishi always have clean cuts.

 

[MattF]

On mild steel? I've never had much joy, maybe my cuts aren't deep enough or something but its literally like its tearing the steel not cutting it

Some iron just defies best efforts.