What are you machining?

[Sergei Slovenija]

I spent two days moving things from the old apartment to the new one. and 1 more bus trip for tomorrow. But! I figured out how to make a compost bin out of literally nothing. Instead of the pile of slop that exists today. Of course there will be a report.

 

[Hood]

Made a couple of 25mm thick spacers this morning, they are for a race car, a Golf I think.

Last week I had made some 20mm thick ones, one shown fitted in the pic below.

 

[Hood]

Made a nut and washer for the top yoke of the bike, still need to anodise them when I get a chance.
Fist I put a hex on some 50mm square 6082 Alu I had lying about.

Then into the lathe to bore out and thread then back into the mill to shape the top.

 

[Hood]

Got them anodised.

 

[Hood]

And fitted.

This is what it was like originally.

 

[MattF]

Looks much better.

 

[iNf]

Flycutting 40mm box to square up and get rid of unevenness. More out of the door than 'out of the box'

2 x 1m pieces so 8m total, it's times like this you wish you had power feed

 

[Munkul]

Flycutting 40mm box to square up and get rid of unevenness. More out of the door than 'out of the box'
View attachment 446037 2 x 1m pieces so 8m total, it's times like this you wish you had power feed

Have you ever seen this old Tony's "power feed" for his lathe top slide? He made a bit of bar into a handle to hook over the handwheel and it turns with a cordless drill

 

[indy4x]

Have you ever seen this old Tony's "power feed" for his lathe top slide? He made a bit of bar into a handle to hook over the handwheel and it turns with a cordless drill

Pretty sure @doubleboost did something similar several years ago, think it was the compound slide he was powering via a battery drill

 

[ukracer]

Pretty sure @doubleboost did something similar several years ago, think it was the compound slide he was powering via a battery drill

Is the top slide the same as the compound slide?

 

[Dr.Al]

Is the top slide the same as the compound slide?

"Compound Slide" is the American name for the thing that is known in the UK as the "Top Slide"

 

[Seadog]

I'm not sure that I'd agree with that. We were taught that it was a compound back in 1965.

 

[Pete.]

Have you ever seen this old Tony's "power feed" for his lathe top slide? He made a bit of bar into a handle to hook over the handwheel and it turns with a cordless drill

I've had one of those for years.

 

[ranchero]

I'm not sure that I'd agree with that. We were taught that it was a compound back in 1965.

same here. but 7 years later

 

[iNf]

Have you ever seen this old Tony's "power feed" for his lathe top slide? He made a bit of bar into a handle to hook over the handwheel and it turns with a cordless drill

Not seen Old Tony's version but made this years ago for the top slide on my myford

Now also have a harrison with a TTA so this doesn't get used much. Thought of doing something similar for the mill but as I was flycutting and needed a slow feedrate I didn't think I would be able to control a variable speed drill trigger well enough, not without inadvertently squeezing the trigger at the wrong moment and bad things happening!

 

[paradipiro]

A new spindle fornmy pillar drill. The original has B18 taper, the new have MT2.
Material: 42CrMo4
Next step is heat threating, then grind the bearing and taper faces.

 

[Hood]

Made a small gauge today.

It is to be used to easily set the chain tensioner I made earlier in the week..

 

[Hood]

Just made this chain fin from 5083 alu, still have to make some acetal parts and a backing plate but made this up first so I could get some measurements. The front top corner only partially took the dye for some reason but can easily make another if it ends up bothering me Unlikely to see it anyway as you won't see for the swingarm.

This is what it will eventually be like.

 

[iNf]

Turning a register for a bison 5c collet chuck. I got the chuck and backplate 2 years ago with the lathe. Obviously you can't rush these things

Bleedin cast iron gets everywhere, serves me right for cleaning the lathe last week

 

[iNf]

Got to use the pcd function on the dro for the 1st time

Got the TIR to 0.02mm so leaving it at that as likely to make it worse rather than better