What are you machining?

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

what size do you need..i have some nice chunks of machinable plastic here if you need any

50 mm round bar should do the job at a guess mate

 

[roofman]

50 mm round bar should do the job at a guess mate

i have square...must be about 100mmx80mm and whatever length you need. can send you some but it wont be till early next week as ime not going up to my unit till sunday morning

 

[mtt.tr]

Not that lucky. Most of the DeWalt gear is A direct fit thankfully. But need adapters for other tools to suit. Poly?

Polyurethane as its flexible. But would be ****e the machine.

Thinking about it offer suggestions would be best just a little brittle

Would it be best to get a decent rubber coupler and adapt that then you can just wedge it in the orifices.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Polyurethane as its flexible. But would be ****e the machine.

Thinking about it offer suggestions would be best just a little brittle

Would it be best to get a decent rubber coupler and adapt that then you can just wedge it in the orifices.

Kind of what I'm doing now but when your mid cut/plane and it pops out all over a lounge it's a pita

 

[mtt.tr]

Kind of what I'm doing now but when your mid cut/plane and it pops out all over a lounge it's a pita

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-ex...ocphy=9045041&hvtargid=pla-421350532529&psc=1


Pains me to say it but the festool one stays in really stiff and grippy

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

i have square...must be about 100mmx80mm and whatever length you need. can send you some but it wont be till early next week as ime not going up to my unit till sunday morning

Will have a poke around on the bay first cheers. Round close to dims will save me a lot of time I don't have.
Appreciate the offer though.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-ex...ocphy=9045041&hvtargid=pla-421350532529&psc=1


Pains me to say it but the festool one stays in really stiff and grippy

Aye. Just eye wateringly expensive.
Still prefer my ts over the DeWalt track saws
Little details make all the difference.

 

[mtt.tr]

Aye. Just eye wateringly expensive.
Still prefer my ts over the DeWalt track saws
Little details make all the difference.

Agree mate, personally hate my festool extractor sucks well, but stupid shape makes it awkward.
Just glad i didn't pay for it.

 

[Turbo]

Seems a good place to ask rather than a new thread.

Machinable plastics.
Need to make a load of adapters to standardise my extractor connection to tools.
Recommendations for materials?
Would rather leave an adapter in each tool and just plug and play

If you bring your extractor connection & your tool to a decent hardware shop or builders merchants I'd be surprised if you couldn't get something close in waste pipe fittings. But it might work out cheaper to buy one of those stepped adaptors off ebay!

 

[lchris21]

Very neat, what will the two buttons be used for??

starter and horn one side, lights and main beam t-other

 

[earthman]

starter and horn one side, lights and main beam t-other

Is putting the starter and horn together a good idea? Chance you might hit the starter rather than the horn??

On all the bikes I've owned, horn were on the left bar, starter on the right.

 

[lchris21]

Is putting the starter and horn together a good idea? Chance you might hit the starter rather than the horn??

On all the bikes I've owned, horn were on the left bar, starter on the right.

LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up

 

[earthman]

LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up

It's easy to panic/fumble when that hazard suddenly appears whilst out on the road. I've just got a new to me make of winter glove, even a small change like that can make hitting the right button tricky at first.

 

[Shox Dr]

Seems a good place to ask rather than a new thread.

Machinable plastics.
Need to make a load of adapters to standardise my extractor connection to tools.
Recommendations for materials?
Would rather leave an adapter in each tool and just plug and play

Delrin, i

LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up

While I agree in principle. The horn on my pickup is a button on the column. After 6yrs I still go for the centre, not always but do find its when I most need it fast.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Delrin, i


While I agree in principle. The horn on my pickup is a button on the column. After 6yrs I still go for the centre, not always but do find its when I most need it fast.

Yup. I still go for the center of the wheel despite it being on the lh stalk.

 

[earthman]

The old original Mini had the horn on the stalk if I remember rightly,.....stupid place to put it if you ask me. Middle of the wheel is where you naturally want to thump hey.

 

[KemppiFrog]

Delrin, i


While I agree in principle. The horn on my pickup is a button on the column. After 6yrs I still go for the centre, not always but do find its when I most need it fast.

After years of driving Renaults with the horn on the left stick, the current one has it on the bit in the wheel. In extremis, I aways hit the stalk, then the wheel, not great to point out the miscreats extremely substandard driving in time for him to appreciate my anger! He then swans off in ignorance, while I have to resort to finding a bar to cool down with a beer.

 

[KemppiFrog]

The old original Mini had the horn on the stalk if I remember rightly,.....stupid place to put it if you ask me. Middle of the wheel is where you naturally want to thump hey.

Don't think so, my 1962 van had a delicate indicater stalk with a bulb in the end. Horn must have been in the wheel? Headlight dip on the floor, along with the starter button between the seats. No relay, it was direct to the rough 'bang it in' CAV starter.

Prob Lucas starter 'Known as the 'Prince of Darkness' over in the US of A ;o)

 

[KemppiFrog]

As to machining.. I just bored out a double pulley, then made a reducing insert to fit it to a motor for a friend's table saw. Bored it out for the first motor, only to find it went the wrong way. Wiring a bit tricky to to reverse, so found another and fitted the insert to match the smaller shaft. Quite a pleasant hour on the lathe.
KF

 

[Hood]

I machined some T Nuts for the soft jaws I purchased a while back.

I then put them into the tapping machine (manual one )

I then gave myself a dope slap. I had drawn and coded things up at home so I had looked up the Cutwel flyer to get the dimensions. Hole spacing was 28mm, when I tested it out for fit today I found out they are actually 30mm. Not a huge problem as I just cut it into 6 individual T nuts rather than 3 doubles.