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- Thread starter Smudgemo
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His post is in shop made tooling here is the link.
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/showthread.php/20376-Homemade-tailstock-drilling-indicator-(caliper)
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The weather here Maine this winter has been crazy! I haven't seen this many subzero days since I was a kid. The cold make it real hard to work out in the shop. Everything metal feels like you're hanging onto an icicle. Ive been heating it or I should say trying to heat it with wood and it get comfortable about the time I come in for the night.
Today I picked up a used mobile home furnace. I needed to have a base built for it so drag out the bandsaw and welder to fab one up. Hopefully tomorrow I can finish hooking it up and see if this will make a difference. At least in the mornings I can turn that on while having my coffee. By the time II get through the newspaper it should be warm.... I hope!
Today I picked up a used mobile home furnace. I needed to have a base built for it so drag out the bandsaw and welder to fab one up. Hopefully tomorrow I can finish hooking it up and see if this will make a difference. At least in the mornings I can turn that on while having my coffee. By the time II get through the newspaper it should be warm.... I hope!
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I built this drill press table lift from a trailer jack I got from a trailer repair shop out of their dumpster. The motor is a $10 used window crank motor and the switch was $5. I hooked it up to a 12 volt power supply. It runs a bit slow, I am considering a faster motor if/when I find one. It's got lots of power to lift the table with the vise on it.
Eventually the motor and switch will be mounted in a table I intend on making.[video=youtube_share;novc-e_-XVo]http://youtu.be/novc-e_-XVo[/video]
And yes it's cold here too.
Eventually the motor and switch will be mounted in a table I intend on making.[video=youtube_share;novc-e_-XVo]http://youtu.be/novc-e_-XVo[/video]
And yes it's cold here too.
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[h=2]Homemade tailstock drilling indicator (caliper)[/h]
I have just finished modifying my small lathe with a drilling depth indicator made from a H/F wide caliper to allow me to determine the depth of a drilled hole in stock. I used a bearing race that was heated in a fire to soften it, then machined to fit over the quill of the tail stock. A small stud was welded onto the race to allow anchoring of the caliper. Since the caliper's forward arm is hardened, I could not drill thru it, but instead milled a hole and a slot in a 3/8 rod to engage the arm of the caliper and a hole to anchor it to the race pin. I am a new "machinist" and continue to learn daily. I cannot produce what others on this site can create, but I thought that it is a start - it works for me! Any ideas or suggestions? Pictures as follows:
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Really neat, I like it alot! I did guffaw a little bit when I saw the motor swing round and stop against the column, but as long as it works, who cares? I scrounged a window motor from an uncles garage when I was cleaning it up for him to use for exactly this. I'll probably go with wire and pulleys though, as I don't have a screw jack to hand.
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It's still a work in progress. Once I build the new table for the press the motor will be mounted to that and not swing around. I might gear the motor to get a bit more speed also.
I needed a place to set down my tig torch between welds and there was no good place to hook it. I recently saw a photo of someone else's torch holder and I made my own variation out of scrap metal. I'm left handed, so the opening is to the right so I can pick it up with my left hand. The picture I saw on the internet was for a right handed holder with the opening to the left. The pieces are attached to a magnetic base. I stick welded the pieces, not with TIG since they weren't all that thin.
