What are you machining?

[Hood]

I noticed the last week that the lathe was cutting out a bit, the whole building moves over time due to the action of the waves as my workshop lies between the sea wall and a burn and the water seeps through the sea wall into the burn and takes soil with it leaving voids under my workshop.

So today I chucked up a length of round bar and started doing some test cuts and adjusting the feet to compensate, saves having to do a semi finish cut to measure then programme a cut to remove any taper.

Cut length was just shy of 400mm

This was the measurements after adjusting, I can live with 0.002mm difference over 400mm. Sad thing is the next storm it will be out again

 

[Arc Tourist]

After five decades of service, the original motor in my Boxford lathe gave up the ghost, as they say. I bought a new 1/2 hp one, but as I understand it, motors nowadays are manufactured with both a foot and face mounting features. Well, the pulleys wouldn't line up, so I fabricated an offset adapter plate. Didn't have a sharp milling bit of the right size, so I drilled and used the die filer to cut the slots, cut some bolts for studs, then threaded them in and welded flush with the plate's base. A time consuming little project, but the lathe is up and running again.
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[RichardM]

Ton Senior colour?

 

[Arc Tourist]

Ton Senior colour?

Its slightly lighter than the colour on my Tom Senior mill, almost matches the shade on the Fobco drill press. Paint was from Aldi, and I've used it on several tools, like the vice in the photo.
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[Johnnybravo]

You know it’s a pissy little contour when you rough out with a 1mm milling cutter and finish with a 0,4mm. Ten prototype parts made. No cutters vandalised to death/ put back into kit form. Ballpoint pen for scale

 

[Maker]

At the other end of the size scale, I had to stick a bolt hole pattern on last month's space ship.



It's a 4 foot ally disc, on a rotary table, with the head of the mill swung to one side and extended to get enough clearance.

 

[Arc Tourist]

A little rainy day project for my nc750x bike. There have been a couple of videos showing a fix to change the slope angle on the seat to prevent sliding forward, which is an issue many have had. My solution was to cut and fit a couple of rubber walking stick feet on the existing bumpers to raise the front of the seat up about 20mm, and make an adapter bracket using the same bolts. So no permanent modification, and all is easily removed to put the seat back into stock configuration without damage.

A few photos....... To cut the rubber cane feet without messing them up, I slipped then over a scrap piece of 22mm copper pipe in a vice. This made it easy to tape a line around the circumference, and press hard to cut through without distorting. I then bent a U-shaped bracket to locate the tongue of the seat, and mark it to allow for two height adjustments before bending and drilling the ears; then gluing in a 20mm thick spacer which can be used either over, or under the new bracket. Once fitted and checked, a shot of paint and job done. The lighting in the last photo shows what looks like a large gap, but there isn't; its actually hardly noticeable.
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[Arc Tourist]

A little rainy day project for my nc750x bike. There have been a couple of videos showing a fix to change the slope angle on the seat to prevent sliding forward, which is an issue many have had. My solution was to cut and fit a couple of rubber walking stick feet on the existing bumpers to raise the front of the seat up about 20mm, and make an adapter bracket using the same bolts. So no permanent modification, and all is easily removed to put the seat back into stock configuration without damage.

A few photos....... To cut the rubber cane feet without messing them up, I slipped then over a scrap piece of 22mm copper pipe in a vice. This made it easy to tape a line around the circumference, and press hard to cut through without distorting. I then bent a U-shaped bracket to locate the tongue of the seat, and mark it to allow for two height adjustments before bending and drilling the ears; then gluing in a 20mm thick spacer which can be used either over, or under the new bracket. Once fitted and checked, a shot of paint and job done. The lighting in the last photo shows what looks like a large gap, but there isn't; its actually hardly noticeable.
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An afterthought.

I initially overlooked that changing the angle of the seat's slope would also raise it at the rear, where two elongated rubber bumpers supported the back end of the seat. To sort the issue, I covered a couple of blobs of "White Tack" in cling film, so it wouldn't stick, and positioned them over the rubber bumpers, then installed the seat and tightened the two retaining bolts. Removing the seat provided me with the flattened White Tack which I then measured. I found a strip of neoprene which I bought by mistake when ordering a sheet to make an extension for my front fender; and fortunately the strip was about the right thickness to fill the gap. I cut a couple of pieces to stick on the bumpers for support, and the job is done properly now. The seat fits snug.

 

[E T]

I got myself some new indexable endmills.
two have a 20mm shank so I made another MT3 endmill holder for the mill from a old front output shaft from a LR serie 2a gearbox.
Less than 0.01mm runout on the endmill shank. I can live with that.
I'm still in doubt if I should cut down the shanks for a bit less stickout.

 

[Kram]

Less than 0.01mm runout on the endmill shank. I can live with that.
I'm still in doubt if I should cut down the shanks for a bit less stickout.

Runout typically grows futher from the chuck so I'd measure on the surface just above the inserts. If its the same then fair enough, if its higher you may want to shorten the shank.

 

[Tigman]

Not actually machined anything , but I picked this little backplate up and thought I would give it a spin , had to take off the gaurd and safety switch , remove the gap bed , (never been off the machine) , took a while to get it up and on with a lift and pull hoist but nice to see it working ! Took it to 125 rpm,

 

[Tigman]

This weighs 84 kg and is 680mm wide , 25mm to spare ! It has a little runout, may need facing off to get it true to the machine !

 

[brightspark]

a bit of strobe efect there

 

[Tigman]

Mesmorising isn't it ! I'm a sucker for big lumps spinning , it was going cheap so what the hell, I love it

 

[Brad93]

New pins, bushes, stubs and sliders for these arms.

 

[Maker]

The vice.

 

[voipio]

Ouch!!!

 

[Smouser]

I had to make a pulley for a Tom Senior mill.

I suspect a previous owner was hitting on the drawbar to eject the 3 Morse Taper horizontal arbor and missed the drawbar and hit the pulley.

It is basic stuff, but as a beginner it took me ages to make the bloody thing.

 

[Hood]

The vice.

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You are not the first to have done that and you won't be the last

 

[MattF]

You are not the first to have done that and you won't be the last

That knowledge doesn't make it any less gutting when you damage something though.