2015 POTD Thread Archive

[f350ca]

A birds eye view of the plasma table cutting part of the belt guard for my shaper. Charlie mounted his Gopro to the gantry.

 

[BillWood]

Quite happy - managed to cut a matching pair of MT3 tapers - a plug and a socket - no wiggle.

 

[MozamPete]

Knocked up a temporary display bracket for my iGaging DRO install to use with the supplied display units until I get my TouchDRO interface built.



And built a spanner for my mill spindle (ER32 collet chuck) out of 5mm plate. Cut the basic shape on the bandsaw:

And after some milling, grinding, filing, drilling and blackening:


I have a spray can of a rubberised coating that I purchased some time ago and have never used so I might give that a try to coat the handle and see how it comes out.

Must say I was surprised how easily the 5mm steel cut on the new bi-metal blade in my bandsaw. Had only used it for aluminium up to now.

 

[Franko]

Looks good, Peter. How did you blacken it?

 

[MozamPete]

Looks good, Peter. How did you blacken it?

Thanks. Just the "get it red hot and quench it in old engine oil" treatment - I use it alot, another use for the casting furnace I built awhile back.
It was just made out of what I suspect is mild steel plate so I don't expect that the oil quenching has actually hardened it at all - but if it has a bit I figured that wouldn't be a bad thing.

 

[T Bredehoft]

I spent yesterday and today removing the 'carrier' for the head crank on my PM25. It's going to have a 17 mm bearing mounted in it, then a plate mounted over in carrying a motor to raise and lower the head. I'm awaiting delivery of the bearings and timing pulleys and belt. I could feel bursitis starting in my shoulder, so decided to do something about it. Matt was a great help with this project, providing parts illustrations and advice.

 

[Joe0121]

Got the Gear Box for the south bend 90% back together

A photo posted by Joseph DAndrea (@joseph.dandrea) on Oct 30, 2015 at 5:22pm PDT

 

[kizmit99]

I made a slitting-saw arbor for some 1/2" blades I won on ebay...





Also won some blades with 1" holes, thinking of making that holder from an blank R8 arbor...

 

[Franko]

Good work, Kizmet.

 

[chevydyl]

Making a new gear case for my lathe, I found out some truths about roughing end mills on this part, like I should have programmed at least .030 remaining stock to clean up, roughing end mills drift, also mine was on its way out so powering through a full width cut at .375 deep was the final straw for that one lol. I have to drill the mounting holes still but here's a glance. This is the first real part off the mill since the cnc conversion. I'm still getting the hang of the camware too, it's not exactly what I wanted but I haven't mastered manipulation of it yet.