2013 POTD Thread Archive

[terry_g]

I made these to raise the handlebars on a motorcycle.
It's a sportbike of sorts and the riding position puts a lot of weight on your wrists.

Terry

 

[markknx]

Did you turn them down in the lathe and then mill them to shap? how about the bore lathe? or mill?

I made these to raise the handlebars on a motorcycle.
It's a sportbike of sorts and the riding position puts a lot of weight on your wrists.

Terry

 

[terry_g]

Did you turn them down in the lathe and then mill them to shap? how about the bore lathe? or mill?

I machined the spigots and bored them in the lathe. Then drilled tapped and cut the slots in the mill.
Then I made up a piece of shaft to fit the bores and clamped them together. then Finished shaping them
with the mill.

Terry

 

[markknx]

Nice plan to clamp them on a shaft for shaping. I will have to remember this trick.
Thanks, Mark

I machined the spigots and bored them in the lathe. Then drilled tapped and cut the slots in the mill.
Then I made up a piece of shaft to fit the bores and clamped them together. then Finished shaping them
with the mill.

Terry

 

[xman_charl]

Use several different tig torches, sort of a quick change mod thingy.

Threading the adapter, M16x1.5

Change gear table, also use for welding table, has rollers and sliding top table.

Brass connectors are used on miller tig, some plasma cutters, hf junk.
Brass knurled fitting will push the gas line off the nipple.

I just hand tighten brass nut, connect tigger, good to go.

Charl

 

[24more]

1911 grip blanks for a friend who carves. Two sets, hickory from his tree and lyptus.

 

[johnnyc14]

I need to service the swingarm bearings on my Kawasaki ZG1400 this winter and the swingarm pivot bolt requires a special socket. I could buy one for $50 but decided to make one today from a piece of 2" round that was in the scrap bucket. It was a lot of fun!

Here's the weird nut with 4 slots.



Here's the socket I made.





John

 

[samthedog]

I made a new handle for my bandsaw. I bought it cheap because it needed a few parts, this being the most crucial.

What I started with:

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A work in progress shot:

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The final product:

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The happy bandsaw:

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Paul.

 

[GK1918]

Anyways Nelson said to repost due to idiot hackin . I do not remember who or what forum, but some one asked how in the world did i bore
my collets, or if it was a rotary table question. This is the only way I know of . This is for a 3/8 end mill. And then I couldnt find a 3/8 reamer
so I turned an hair under 3/8 stock. Then put it in the shaper and made my own reamer, worked well. I had to chuck in a chuck because the chuck is massive. The chuck is mounted to a 2" tapered pin
set in & bolted to a 3/4 plate. Its my prototype, the plate is clamped but not the chuck. Havent got that far yet. But the chucks mass and
heavy ness it didnt move a bit. The chuck a 4 jaw is new dont fit any of our machines so its just one more fixture. comes in handy for
weird stuff, only thing is I have to assemble and disasemble to remove it "I cant lift it"........ sam

 

[Old Iron]

The only bad thing about old machinery is that it is hard to mount a DRO of any kind on them. I needed one for my spindle for a project I'm going to start some time next week. So this is what I came up with this is the only place to mount one.
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Not pretty but it works ok.
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Paauull