2016 POTD Thread Archive

[f350ca]

A christmas present for Julia. Made from Canadian Ivory, aka deer antler.



Greg

 

[sanddan]

Nice video EC. Thanks

 

[f350ca]

Thanks guys, one more. Charlie has been enjoying the wood lathe. Had some 5/8 round carbide inserts, so made him a bowl scraper for Christmas. Cherry handle with a 1 1/4 copper pipe furl. The shank was a rusty piece of 1/2 inch square, again the surface grinder came to the rescue.





Merry Christmas

Greg

 

[T Bredehoft]

That should do the job very nicely. I'da never thought of it.

 

[johnnyc14]

Continuing on with my Yamaha XS650 desert sled project. I used a chunk of 6061 to machine a speedo/handle bar mount. The Buell triple clamp has a weird diagonal bolt pattern for the handle bar hold down and I wanted to eliminate that as well as raise the bars up about 1.5". I milled the top of the original triple clamps bar mounts flat and parallel.



I machined the adapter block to use 2 of the threaded holes on the triple clamp as simply hold downs and the other 2 as part of the bar mount hold downs thus giving me the perpendicular bar mounts I wanted and giving 4.25" spacing between the hold down clamps.
The Buell triple clamp used Imperial fasteners so all the holes are 5/16" NC.







I machined the hold down clamps from 2 more small pieces of 6061 aluminum.





I drilled the hole for the handlebar to 3/4" the bore it to .875" for the 7/8" bars I will use. Both bar clamps are bored at once, stacked in the vise.





Then I drilled and countersunk the bolt holes and chamfered the edges.





I used a slitting saw to cut the clamps in half.







Using the same bolt hole spacing I drilled and tapped the extra mounting hole in the bracket for the hold down clamps.



Now I have the starting point for my bar mount/speedo mount

 

[wawoodman]

I am in awe of you guys who can photo document your projects. If I take one step away from what I'm doing, I completely lose track of where I was, and will invariably screw up the next step.

 

[sanddan]

I am in awe of you guys who can photo document your projects. If I take one step away from what I'm doing, I completely lose track of where I was, and will invariably screw up the next step.

It is a lot of work so I applaud anyone who take the extra effort.

 

[johnnyc14]

I back up all my pictures to Photobucket anyway. After that it is very easy to post them to a forum. The worst part is getting the oily fingerprints on my camera.lol

I wanted to rubber mount the speedo as XS650's vibrate like paint shakers. I bent up a simple bracket from some 3/16" flat steel and milled the area that will fit on the aluminum bracket to fit between the mounting bolt holes. I found some sleeved rubber mounts left over from my DT250 build and measured the waist area of the rubber part. I did not have a drill bit the right size so I drilled the holes undersize then finished sizing with a boring bar.





I drilled and tapped the 3 mounting holes in the aluminum bracket to 1/4" NC, the Buell triple clamps use Imperial fasteners.







I soon realized that there was not enough room for the speedo bracket under the handlebar bracket, the rear bolt interfered with the steering stem bolt so I milled a pocket .200" deep in the aluminum bracket to move the speedo bracket upward to provide the necessary clearance. I drilled the 2 mounting holes for the speedo and milled a slot for cable clearance and fitted the handlebar.
















There's more to do on these brackets but the bar height feels right and I like the position of the speedo

 

[Whyemier]

Not a machine project but done in and out of my shop. The wife found these '?crystal?' leaf things at a flea market. Off some kinda chandelier I guess. She wanted to use them for a hat/coat rack. She took my last moderately large zebra wood piece ( I think its zebra wood, have a couple small pieces left ) and told me to do my thing. So here it is:

hat/coat rack

• Whyemier
• Dec 22, 2016

If I had a band saw that was working I might of called myself doing some scroll work on it but this is what she got.

I actually did work on a machine project between coats of clear poly. Got some done on my so called dividing head. No more pics of that right now.

 

[fleckner's garage]

Made my brother a hammer for Christmas.



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