2014 POTD Thread Archive

[middle.road]

Re: POTD - Finally making some chips

Making up some new shackle plates for the Jeep®. It's taken more than a day of course.
I'm hoping these will support the springs a tad better than the stock ones. More 'bearing' surface
against all the parts.

Wore out the spindle on the mill I fear. (See Posting) Spindle rebuild to add to the list...
I wanted to face them to remove the scale so I did them up in the lathe on a 4-jaw.
Note to self - don't mess with answering the phone while clamping... (see picts)

I did get the Lil Mister going, that makes all the difference on my mill finish.
Good thing the mill is by the overhead door, the fog was getting to me.
I'm going to need to modify it to Terry's design I figure.
But at least I feel like I finally made something proper.

 

[epanzella]

Made a barrel vise for an upcoming rifle build. Next up on the gunny-do list is an action vise.

Used the barrel vice to take apart the donor rifle today. Worked like a charm. Barrel and action separated in about ten minutes.

 

[schor]

Part 3, checking out the gearbox.

 

[Wdnich]

Finished going through the vice I got at the SECO auction, and going through the original powerfeed off the Bridgeport. Trying to decide to sell it or just store it in case of future needs, since I got Servo replacements to go on the Bridgeport now.

 

[blacksmithden]

I finally got enough bits and and pieces together for a decent grinder stand. The base is a highway tractor brake drum with a car brake rotor welded on top of it. The post is part of a highway tractor drive shaft. The water cup is a piece of the same shaft. The top is a chunk of 7 inch C channel. The inside of the drive shaft had a layer of hard cardboard inside it for sound deadening. I added to that by ramming chunks of cardboard in there with a 2 inch bar. There's virtually no "tunneling" of the sound of it running. The face shield hanger is just a piece of 1/16" x 2" flat bar bent in to a hanger and welded onto the back of the top piece. The whole thing, including the 10" grinder is coming in right around 180 lbs and is very stable. The nice thing about building them like this is the small footprint. I've discovered that there are 2 things, no matter how much I want to, I can not change in my garage/shop. The length, and the width.

 

[maker of things]

Made an organizer for my lathe. All hanging from the wall.

All nice and safe by the tailstock.

 

[chuckorlando]

Man that sucks. I bet that just got chewed up over a decent eriod

Part 3, checking out the gearbox.

 

[pipehack]

I restored a Dake 1 ton arbor press I picked up for $20.00 I was told it's from the 1950's. It's now ready for another 60+ years of service.

 

[Deny1950]

nice job looks brand new

 

[melsdad]

Nice press! I have been looking for one of them myself.