2015 POTD Thread Archive

[09kevin]

The wife bought a new suitcase and the first time she used it the handle pulled off, there were only about 2 threads holding on the old handle so I made new ones that have plenty of threads.

 

[Pontiac Freak]

Finally got around to putting the casters on the 50 ton press.

 

[doogledee]

Finally got round to making a fix for my old bandsaw (inherited it from a friend). It needed a new part so...


This was the most challenging part for me:


As the slot is only 1mm wide and the peice of alu is 6 mm, and i only had one 1mm mill.

But pretty happy with the result:


I could have bought myself a new part, but it would have been plastic and probly break again.

Anyway all it cost me was time and the payback was a bit more machine experience for me.I am now much more confident with my little machine tool than when I started.

Leif


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[pepi]

Finally got round to making a fix for my old bandsaw (inherited it from a friend). It needed a new part so...


This was the most challenging part for me:


As the slot is only 1mm wide and the peice of alu is 6 mm, and i only had one 1mm mill.

But pretty happy with the result:


I could have bought myself a new part, but it would have been plastic and probly break again.

Anyway all it cost me was time and the payback was a bit more machine experience for me.I am now much more confident with my little machine tool than when I started.

Leif


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Would you mind backing away from mill a few inches, and shoot a good picture of the vise you are using. Curious about the style.

Thanks in advance

 

[doogledee]

Here you go:





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[pepi]

Here you go:





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Nice one thank you

 

[stupoty]

So i made an air line addaptor, it's for a badger brand, the thread is some weird imperial / metric merger of weirdness. It's an M5 0.5 if i work it out in inches it came to 50tpi my leblond skipps that one so i cut it 52 tpi, works nicely, darn u badger airbrush co

And it doesn't leek like he shop bout adaptors i was using, grrrr

Stuart

 

[woodtickgreg]

Thanks for the comments guys. The cabinet shop gives a nice break from the oil and grinding dust in the metal shop. I finally have separate spaces for the two, they don't mix. I could deal with shavings in the metal shop, but welding and grinding would leave the usual black dust on lumber that was like a permanent marker.

Greg

I recently moved and I have been setting up my shops, notice I said shops. 1 half of my basement is for the wood shop, and the other side is for the metal work side and a wall separates them. The wood shop now has 2 dust collectors, a stationary cyclone and a portable unit. It is going to be nice to have both separated now so I can do either craft. I was a wood worker first and that will always be my first love, but I do love to work metal as well and the tool collection for that is growing slowly as I learn. It is nice to be able to make tools and parts out of metal when the need arises.
Greg, nice work on your turnings and stands.

 

[pepi]

Looks like a nice setup pepi. I like the welder in the background of the last picture.

I weld and fix things like lawn mowers, patio furniture for the hood and it was going to be my drive way sign. After welding the upright and the stand. The silly thing is stuck in the garage, will not clear the door.

I could have measured twice and all that but I like that it is above the folks head, they must look up to see it, adds to the effect. Right now it sit on a furniture dolly, maybe mounting casters up inside the bottom of the I beam, will lower it enough to roll it in and out of my humble shop.

 

[ozzie46]

I think if you check it is the same thread as a tire valve stem. Now what that translates to I don't know but a Dremel air brush compressor I have will fit the valve stem.


Ron