2016 POTD Thread Archive

[BillShop322]

Here is the Sunday job, just helping out a friend in his shop. Pretty cool parts that I made for him before.

 

[chevydyl]

i use a Norton 38A60gr wheel, white, I get a great finish, however when I finish I downfeed a couple tenths and crossfeed 1/8th turn and traverse down and back slower than roughing before crossfeeding. something to try if its good enough for you

 

[intjonmiller]

He needs a drive shaft like I saw in AK while I was there, We had some guys that kept twisting them off, and one company made one that they guaranteed not to brake or twist. I bet some of them could still do it. These guys would put more motor in old Land Cursers and tires that were taller that the finders on my car, and then just see what they could go through, Towing them out of the bush was often fun.

My brother works with a guy who spent a ton of money on a turbocharger and other silly things for his jeep. I just don't understand that. In what situation does a jeep benefit from turbocharging?

He blew the engine. Big surprise. Some people just have more money than sense.

 

[jocat54]

Some people just have more money than sense.

I fit part of that---just no money

 

[chevydyl]

Idk, I have a rally truck and I drive it insensibly, it's pretty fun to just mash the throttle and not give a bleep, Drive up on tree stumps, I drive it to try and break stuff, I did a good weld job on the front diff cause it hasn't broke yet lol

 

[mattthemuppet2]

made a couple of rings out of old brass (?) bushings from my lathe spindle pulley. Spent longer making the arbor from a piece of scrap that it did to face, bevel, groove and polish the rings. I also mistakenly tapped it 10-24 instead of 10-32, so had to use a flat head screw, hence the slot is starting to wallow out already.


one for a friend who's leaving


one for my wife for Mother's Day

 

[TOOLMASTER]

I've snapped them, never bent them..

A buddy of mine brought over his Jeep CJ for some repairs. He decided to go up against mother nature and pull some stuff out of the ground. Well a lot of torque and horsepower produced this and a twisted driveshaft.

(the dogs wanted to get in the picture too)

 

[TOOLMASTER]

....took one look at your vid and thought of this

make a bigger od middle ring

cut the top die back so the ring fits till flush

and make a ring with an id a bit bigger than the die id...

this way you put your assembly on the new bottom piece and press out your slug and bottom die

I'm sure most of the Canadian guys have heard, but the news may not have reached many in the US. We've had a massive wild fire up in the oil sands region of northern Alberta. They had to evacuate the city of Fort McMurray, and there are currently 90,000 people living in shelters in various parts of our province. The city is still under a mandatory evacuation order, and we haven't had any really reliable reports on how much damage was done. Yes, the fire did sweep right through the city. The outpouring of support for the refugees has been enormous. I gave some cash, but wanted to do more. Hummm....what to do.....

I'm a moderator on a fairly large gun owners website here in Canada. I got permission from the administrators to do a little fund raising project. The guys on the site have been on me for a few years to make something called a "challenge coin" that would be excusive to the fiercely loyal members on our site. Well....I've never made a coin before. Even better...how can I make a coin that would be exclusive to our site (short form letters of the name are GOC) and make it something shooting related ?

Well....let's put a target with some shots in it on one side....the name of the website/group on the other....and let's make it out of a bullet !!! Heck yeah !!! After much failure, I finally just took a diamond bit and engraved the letters free hand on one side of the die. The other side with the target was easy in the lathe...then I used a center drill in the mill to put a few dimples in it for the bullet hits. They turned out a little rougher than I'd have liked, but from getting off on Friday night with nothing but a fund raising idea, to pressing coins out of bullets by Saturday lunch time...not too bad. Everybody who contributed anything is getting a coin mailed to them. I've raised $780 for the fire relief fund so far ! Yay ! Heres a few pics and a video.

 

[HBilly1022]

I took my Bobtach to a machine shop to get an estimate for boring out the 2 ears and the 2 end pin holes. The total was over $1800. I also got prices for some of the pins and bushings I will need to do the repair and that came to around $500. So I decided to do the best I can with what I have. I have already made one of the tapered and threaded pins and have now completed another plus 2 tapered bushings to fit into the worn end pin receivers. Now I'm in the process of making a boring setup for the 2 ears, following a thread on this forum. I found a piece of 1" cold roll steel but it was a bit too short. So I made an extension that will thread in to the end of the 1" cold roll and also has a 1/2" hex head for the Hole Hawg drill that I will use to turn the boring bar. I did'nt have a chuck for my new rotary table so I ran into the City and picked one up. I love having the rotary table and the chuck makes it even better. Here are the pics so far.

Worn pin hole after using a flap wheel.


Tapered bushing installed.


New tapered pin in place.


First use of rotary table and new chuck.


Finished extension. EDIT; I forgot to mention this is made from a piece of rebar.

 

[BillShop322]

Here is the dividing head I've been working on. This is the progress so far. Today I'm going to do some work on the handle and a little fine tuning.