Onoff
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It's black, over a foot long and made of rubber...give her those clues and I bet she gets it WRONG!
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It's black, over a foot long and made of rubber...give her those clues and I bet she gets it WRONG!
DAPPH
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That's definitely a better sectional cut ,.
Are you going to soak them in a white spirit diluted oil based varnish for a week or so to impregnate them with a weather resisting finish ?
It might also be a benefit to impregnate the basic square , let it dry for a few weeks then route out / mould the edges .. that ought to prevent the feathering of the porous end grains .
DAPPH
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I'm not gong to cut four inches off it to go down to that size.
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A little fill in job done while waiting for a delivery this morning, a couple of training blades for some eastern martial arts practice,
First picture is the "drawing" only dimensions are seven and a half inches by 2 inches wide, so drew a template out on a piece of card and cut them out of 5mm ally bar, customer was well pleased, apparently they are rather difficult to get hold of in this country.
And the ones I made, there are no sharp edges anywhere on them, the photo doesn't show it but the edges are actually quite "soft"
First picture is the "drawing" only dimensions are seven and a half inches by 2 inches wide, so drew a template out on a piece of card and cut them out of 5mm ally bar, customer was well pleased, apparently they are rather difficult to get hold of in this country.
And the ones I made, there are no sharp edges anywhere on them, the photo doesn't show it but the edges are actually quite "soft"
Onoff
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Good shout but he's getting these bits as is. They've had a bit of a sand and a quick brush with some clear Rustin's wood treatment as there are a few woodworm holes.
Edit: Luckily he's not too fussy!
Onoff
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Looks like a candidate for printing in something semi soft maybe TPU?
No piccy's , the camera is hiding some where in my mancupboard . (The Bstd , its been hiding there for the last month or so
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I have to give myself a daily " sugar removal from my blood" self administered injection every morning around 08.15hrs when I'm still a bit groggy from the previous early evenings meds.
I've a sneaky feeling I've missed at least two of these injection . I'm also concerned that I may one day also give myself two doses and suffer some serious overdose effects that if caught in time will see me hospitalized VSI .
So I've drilled an 8 inch length of 35x35x 3 mm right angle aluminium with seven equidistance spaced 7.5 mm holes to allow me to load it up with seven days of needle packs ( which I've now labelled on the alu top face as Sun to Sat ). This enables me to see at a glance if I'm using the right days needles . Any thoughts of is it the right day I can just open up the computer and check the day of the week .
Once it's been emptied of needle pack it's a simple case of refilling the rack with new needle capsules for the next week.
I used to have the same problem with forgetting my basal insulin only I was taking it at night, when I remembered. I switched to taking it in the morning but it was running out during the night when I couldn't take any bolus insulin to stop my sugars going high!
My dia nurse switched me to Tresiba that I take in the morning but works for 36 hrs per dose so if you forget to take it you still have 12 hours to take the missed dose.
I've also started injecting myself as soon as I fit the needle, so if there's a needle on the pen I know I've had the insulin.
The result of this is that my hba1c results have drastically improved & are nearly within normal levels now.
Munkul
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Sounds like a good problem to have
Nice work, also!!
My Old Landy
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I made some hex bosses the other day and attempted to film it. Another tenuous lead in to getting a few views on my channel 
Hood
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Made some pins for the side rollers for the Cat I am currently doing. 25mm Dia reduced to 24.5 over most of the 1m length so that they only seat on the bearings at either end, makes insertion and removal much easier.
Also made the 100mm dia x 200m long roller for the hauler, taken out for 6305 stainless bearings.
Put the new soft jaws on that I got yesterday and bored out to 1"
It was so that I could grip these spacers from an engines drive plate.
Turned the length down by half.
The finished spacers.
I then decided to modify the grooves I had put on the chuck the last day to ease setting the jaws. I made wides bands instead which makes it easier to judge.
I then made this up from some 110mm dia acetal.
It is to fit on the back of the lathes spindle so I could put an optical switch on instead of the prox. The magnet for the prox was picking up swarf as it passed through the spindle bore so I decided to get an slotted optical switch instead.
Fitted with a makeshift bracket which, knowing me, will likely never get changed
It works well and no more issues with swarf sticking to a magnet
Also made the 100mm dia x 200m long roller for the hauler, taken out for 6305 stainless bearings.
Put the new soft jaws on that I got yesterday and bored out to 1"
It was so that I could grip these spacers from an engines drive plate.
Turned the length down by half.
The finished spacers.
I then decided to modify the grooves I had put on the chuck the last day to ease setting the jaws. I made wides bands instead which makes it easier to judge.
I then made this up from some 110mm dia acetal.
It is to fit on the back of the lathes spindle so I could put an optical switch on instead of the prox. The magnet for the prox was picking up swarf as it passed through the spindle bore so I decided to get an slotted optical switch instead.
Fitted with a makeshift bracket which, knowing me, will likely never get changed
It works well and no more issues with swarf sticking to a magnet
Munkul
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Do you use a clamp ring to hold the jaws in tension, or do you just let fly and allow the cutting pressure do the work? Just interested...
Hood
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It is always best practice to grip in the direction you will be gripping the part when boring out soft jaws. For this one I just put an m12 nut in and clamped the jaws onto it and bored them to size.
Munkul
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That's what i understand too, I just wondered... what do you do for turning them externally?
Hood
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Grip a ring.
I did make up a setter years ago but used it on the CNC and it crushed it
it was only mild steel.
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Hood
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I was and was waiting for the response and I must admit it was a disappointmentI'm sure you just keep doing this to tempt a response.
MattF
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I was and was waiting for the response and I must admit it was a disappointment
I'm *trying* to be good. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. What's the exact purpose of the grooves, btw?
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No disputing that.
Hood
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The chuck is not a normal scroll chuck and you can slide the jaws to the diameter you want then turning the key moves them in a bit, maybe 10mm on dia, not sure.
What's the exact purpose of the grooves, btw?
So to set the jaws you either measure the depth of the jaws from the OD of the chuck, count the teeth sticking out or with the rings I can see at a glance if all are at the same point.
Here is a video showing how you adjust the jaws.
