2016 POTD Thread Archive

[great white]

Wired up the rpm indicator for the lathe:





Quick vid:

 

[f350ca]

Well the staircase wouldn't fit into the basement assembled so had to be put together on location. Charlie did a time laps.

Installed them today, the hole.


In place


Not quite the stairway to heaven but they will do.



Thanks for watching, and now we will hopefully return to the previous metal working broadcast.

Greg

 

[T Bredehoft]

Access to one's work space should be considered germane discussion. It's certainly as important a lighting or heat.

 

[RJSakowski]

Nice looking stairs. Almost too nice for basement stairs.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Wired up the rpm indicator for the lathe:

I have one like that on my 618 - that and variable speed have really made a huge difference to the lathe.

Greg - love the stairs, they look awesome. Wood working of that quality and scale is something I aspire to. One day!

Made a stubby chuck key for my 4 jaw to use round the back of the chuck. The handle slides like those on tap handles (the source of inspiration) so I position it according to need. Used my newly made collet chuck which was a joy to use.

 

[hman]

Well the staircase wouldn't fit into the basement assembled so had to be put together on location.
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Installed them today
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Not quite the stairway to heaven but they will do.

Nice looking stairs. Almost too nice for basement stairs.

Until I saw RJSakowski's post, I was going to ask when you were planning to remodel/panel the rest of the basement. Instead, I'll just offer a +1 to his response.

BEAUTIFUL stairs!

 

[doogledee]

Well, I got my new mill installed in the shop, cleaned up and ready for service:


Looking forward to making some chips


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[Round in circles]

finished my collet chuck. Turned out the runout was in the rod I was using (slaps head). As best as I can measure it has around 0.0005 runout at the nose and ~1thou 4in out, which is good enough for me Made up a collet rack too.

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That looks an interesting exercise Matt.
Do you have any idea as to the accuracy of the hexag set up being held in the chuck , against me using a morse taper with my collets in the spindle tube which is perhaps four inches shorter from the spindle thread's register face ?

 

[Round in circles]

View attachment 118768 I haven't done any brazing of carbide, I've just cut insert pockets and tapped a hole, also shaped the holder and gave the insert what I thought to be the correct "laydown"

That looks like I will have to learn how to use my cross slide as a lathe based milling machine if I want to make re useable tools. That could be an amusing interesting event for me .

 

[Halligan142]

Made an ER 40 chuck for the Southbend. Used a stock collet nut so I had to thread some metric threads for it, but found a couple work arounds for metric threading without using a transposing set or expensive custom gears. I only used stock Southbend change gears.

And videos: