2014 POTD Thread Archive

[ebgb68]

I must say that looks like it's going to be a nice shop! Are you going to throw some insulation up there?

Yes sir ! Insulation blower on stand by...

Propane company just dropped this one off...

 

[CNC Dude]

OK, I admit this is not a strictly machining project, but it does happen to be my project of the day. Actually, more like project of the past two months...

Plus what a better way to wish you all awesome Holidays?

[video=youtube_share;nwZSvDGQZkY]http://youtu.be/nwZSvDGQZkY[/video]

I recorder the music on my little music setup, designed the microcontroller board at work, put it all together along with a couple of Sainsmart 8 SSR driver boards I bought on the web, and let the magic of Christmas take it over from there. Enjoy!

 

[johnnyc14]

I took some inspiration from Mark F's indexer/tailstock project and built a tail stock for myself. I used the plans Mark posted here as a guide but changed dimensions to suit my crude home made indexer and Vertex super spacer.

http://www.hobby-machinist.com/showthread.php/26844-tail-stock-for-the-indexer?highlight=tailstock

I used scrap material including some railway track brackets I got from a local scrap metal dealer. Here are a few pics.

 

[Micke S]

Nothing built today but I went to a vintage 2-wheel swap meet and got this HQ precision whip indicator for about 40 bucks. It is easy to read down to about half of a micrometer.



A friend came by later and dropped a lot of good to have-stuff like Thyrolit grinding stones, Sandvik cutters, Dormer thread tools and drill bits, and different type of welding pins. The bottle to the right is a cutting fluid.

 

[12bolts]

I used scrap material including some railway track brackets I got from a local scrap metal dealer.

How easily did these machine? The finish in your pics looks pretty good. I have a couple in my scrap bin but I havent put them to use yet.

Cheers Phil

 

[johnnyc14]

How easily did these machine? The finish in your pics looks pretty good. I have a couple in my scrap bin but I havent put them to use yet.

Cheers Phil

The steel machines like hot rolled, a little gummy, but the finish turned out ok.

John

 

[DoogieB]

Somewhere in this long topic someone made a couple short machinist jacks. I thought they looked cool so I printed-out the picture and took it down to the shop as a reminder. On a few occasions one would have come handy, so with the long holiday weekend I had some time to finally knock them out.

Fun little project. There's a lot of good ideas in this thread!

 

[Bill Gruby]

Could be called a project I guess? I needed a .375 inside radius end mill. I found a broken .750 and decided to re grind it. The "Home Grown cutter grinder" made short work of the task. After roughing it in it only took a few minutes to bring it in. Probably 30 minutes start to finish.

"Billy G"

 

[savarin]

For the first time I needed a transfer punch and being Sunday all stores are closed so I had to make one.
I annealed an old elcheapo nail punch, turned it to size, re-hardened it and voila, it worked.

Seeing as how handy this was I think I should buy a set.

 

[grain914]

I am impressed. Good work. Grain914