2018 POTD Thread Archive

[jdedmon91]

3 things I done in last few days. One was the yard sale shelf that I mounted and put my lathe tooling on. I also made myself a holder for my reduced shank drills. I have a mix of purchased and homemade reduced shank drills. Finally I made some custom knurled screws for my manual tapping machine and the portable bandsaw stand. That way I don’t have to search for a wrench to place either tool on the plate.


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[jdedmon91]

3 things I done in last few days. One was the yard sale shelf that I mounted and put my lathe tooling on. I also made myself a holder for my reduced shank drills. I have a mix of purchased and homemade reduced shank drills. Finally I made some custom knurled screws for my manual tapping machine and the portable bandsaw stand. That way I don’t have to search for a wrench to place either tool on the plate.


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[Ray C]

This is the best I could come-up with for a quick project today. I got tired of using a 14" adjustable wrench on a ER32 chuck and made this special Terminator T-1000 unit.

The jaws are made of 4340. The handle is some 3/8" 316 SS rod left over from another project. Everything was tig welded then, the 4340 jaws were heated red with a torch, quenched, then tempered a little. The ergonomics feel good and it's very sturdy. I don't think any amount of human force could splay the jaws.




I'm going to make one for the ER40 chuck too.

Ray

 

[f350ca]

Just caught this in time. Using my Makita thickness planer today and noticed the arcing smell. Hum, pulled the brushes and found the wire in one JUST poking through. Left a tiny ring on the commutator.

Couldn't believe I had a spare set.

Greg

 

[Ray C]

This is the best I could come-up with for a quick project today. I got tired of using a 14" adjustable wrench on a ER32 chuck and made this special Terminator T-1000 unit.

The jaws are made of 4340. The handle is some 3/8" 316 SS rod left over from another project. Everything was tig welded then, the 4340 jaws were heated red with a torch, quenched, then tempered a little. The ergonomics feel good and it's very sturdy. I don't think any amount of human force could splay the jaws.


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I'm going to make one for the ER40 chuck too.

Ray

Alas, I've been corrected by family and friend. I have mis-named the wrench. The Terminator got burned in a fire and became a metal skeleton. T-1000 was the liquid metal guy. So, the wrench will be renamed Terminator-32 or T-32 for short.

FYI: T-40 is in progress here:

Squaring-up a chunk of 1/2" thick 316 SS left over from a couple weeks ago.


This is my all-time, favorite face cutter. 3/4" Weldon shank. Three cutters, 90 degree, 1.5" diameter. I love that thing. Wish I could remember where I got it. Half-tempted to get another so I don't have to swap-out inserts between roughing and finish.


A little bit of layout work. And of-course, I got more blue on my fingers than on the metal.


Ray

 

[T Bredehoft]

This is my all-time, favorite face cutter. 3/4" Weldon shank. Three cutters, 90 degree, 1.5" diameter.

I think I've got an almost identical cutter, 1 1/2, three triangular inserts, on an R-8 shank. While it's not my Go To tool, (I work mostly aluminum) when I'm working steel it's usually on hand.

 

[Z2V]

Nothing too complicated just a socket to remove the bearing locknut on my Mill. I plan to change the bearings soon so I will have it when I need it.

 

[Firestopper]

Just caught this in time. Using my Makita thickness planer today and noticed the arcing smell. Hum, pulled the brushes and found the wire in one JUST poking through. Left a tiny ring on the commutator.
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Couldn't believe I had a spare set.

Greg

You took me back to my 14" chop saw days. I used a Makita 14" chop saw for darn near 20 years and always kept a pair of brushes on the shelf. You can't mistake the arcing smell.

Paco

 

[tcarrington]

Less of a make and more of a repair. Right now, this trolling motor is somewhere on a favorite lake in Texas and if my friend isn't catching and sharing some fish.... Simple fix though, getting the old screw out, which was made of some super-soft steel, chase the threads and put in a better 18-8 SHCS with a large plastic knob. Now the motor can be raised and lowered just like it used to be.
The close up picture is a Joe Pieczynski inspired tap holder. Makes this job way easier as it increases access and control of the tap and reduces the required height of the head. Important for us hobbyists on small mills. For this version I made tapered handles from hex stock. Hey, don't get to do that often on the lathe and they are very nice ergonomically - a great benefit that I didn't really see coming.

 

[Ray C]

T-40 is under construction here at Cyberdyne Systems engineering. Advanced procedures are involved...



Under the watchful eye of Sash, who can smell Terminators from far distances like nobody's business, she witness the creation of a new Terminator. As you can see, her attention is piqued!


This will be a T-800 (Model 101) Terminator, not the mimetic poly-alloy type. The house service is only 200A and as you know, mimetic poly-alloy has a melting temperature of 2.2 million Centigrade -way higher than my Kanathal wires will go.


... Stay tuned... Sarah Connor was just here but they just dragged her off to the looney bin mental institution....

Check back in a few hours after I finish harnessing the power of Tungsten, Argon and large quantities of electrons.