What are you machining?

[Revs1972]

Pretend you have the trots and head back into the loo, have a look at this video. There is nothing on the telly anyway.

One word if I watch all that ..........piles

 

[ronan]

One word if I watch all that ..........piles

A case of the farmer Giles ? Nasty !

 

[rory1]

Today I'm line boring axle boxes on a Clayton and shuttleworth traction engine.

 

[zx9]

A Change wheel retainer for the Drummond M.

The first thing I have made on the Drummond and the first thing I have made on a lathe since 1982. From plans on the Yahoo Drummond lathe group, not exactly to plan and I overshot the knurling slightly but it works, now I have to make a second one for the other change wheel stud.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and the first thing I have made on a lathe since 1982

Pretty good, then!

 

[Pete.]

Made my first metal gear today, on the hobbing machine I bought off Andrew Mawson.

From this:



Via this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d39apzagtajqzyj/gearhobbing.mp4?dl=0

To this

 

[ukracer]

Made my first metal gear today, on the hobbing machine I bought off Andrew Mawson.

From this:

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Via this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d39apzagtajqzyj/gearhobbing.mp4?dl=0

To this

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I hate you...lol

 

[Hood]

I hate you...lol

Better watch what you say, you may need a gear cut at some point

 

[ukracer]

Better watch what you say, you may need a gear cut at some point

lol not sure if its my age but I would rather look at a newley hobbed gear than a page 3 girl. lol

 

[Windy Miller]

That's a very impressive bit of kit Pete!

 

[RichardM]

Started to make a tool and cutter grinder using an ER25 collet system and the tool post grinder I dug out of the works skip a bit ago.

lump of steel bored to 20mm for the collet holder shaft being faced so that it is at the same height when turned.



Location slot being machined for the above.



square lump allows me to do 2/4 flute cutters, the "nut" at the end (still needs a grub screw hole drilling and tapping) allows 3 flute cutters.



now need to put the dovetail in the other side.

 

[rory1]

Today (at 1am!) I finished line boring a mast for a piling rig with my brand new boring machine which has replaced a home made borer that was becoming unreliable

 

[RichardM]

Bit more done, dovetails machined, lead screw/nut made, top clamp done, need to put some graduations on the slide and turn-wheel, drill and tap for pivot clamp screws

 

[Hood]

Looking great

 

[RichardM]

Thanks,

I need to wrap some bits of allu around the chuck jaws next time

side holes drilled and tapped for the clamp screws today, time to move on to the swivel plate next

 

[ronan]

Where did you get the drawings for the grinder RichardM ?

 

[RichardM]

Drawings!! Design concept came from Harald Halls website plus a few other places. Using ER25 collet holder as I already have that size for my little mill - being made up of the bits of material scrounged from the works skip. Going to make it with a bottom slide block /carriage made from nylatron with 16 x 2 lead screw and 14mm guide rails as I have all the raw materials for that. If not rigid enough I can bore it to 16 or 25mm rails or use linear bearings mounted on a steel plate. The carriage should give a better finish than moving the cutter into the wheel. For the actual grinding head and motor I will use the tool post grinder I saved from the skip.

 

[ndg]

Last night I was machining glass DRO scales .

I bought a Heidenhain DRO set for my mill last year, and have just got around to shortening one of the scales to fit the Y axis. It was pretty nerve racking and I wasn't convinced that it wouldn't explode. But I machined a window in the housing with the mill, then used a grinder with a slitting disc to cut the glass scale and put it back on the mill to finish the housing and put a step on it for the end mount to fasten to.

No photos unfortunately. but it is do-able.

 

[Richard.]

These are hardly gonna set the world a light but I’m machining a some pin bushes for an old bucket linkage.
En24 bar stock. You can imagine how long that takes taking that ring out of that lump of bar on a model makers lathe lol.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Lovey job as alway Richard