2021 POTD Thread Archive

[f350ca]

The neighbour is back from the arctic and gave the young lad and I a hand this aft. The frame is up, still some pins to go in but the basic shape is there.


The tractor doesn't have the reach to get the beams up, so made this extension, works great. Used some scrap I had, should have been a MUCH thicker wall tube but it did the job.


Once again, thanks for watching

Greg

 

[woodchucker]

The neighbour is back from the arctic and gave the young lad and I a hand this aft. The frame is up, still some pins to go in but the basic shape is there.


The tractor doesn't have the reach to get the beams up, so made this extension, works great. Used some scrap I had, should have been a MUCH thicker wall tube but it did the job.


Once again, thanks for watching

Greg

Looking good Greg, what's missing in these shots Greg???? Saddie, your faithful sidekick... So to me it looks like something is missing.

Did you build that work cart in the background? I guess no heat in the winter

 

[f350ca]

Had to check, she usually gets in the shot. Sure enough she's off to the right in yesterdays picture lol
Thats my take on a mule. Was watching I think it was Full Metal Jacket one night and saw this vehicle in the back ground. Rewound and paused, had never seen one before, a bit of Googling and I found the Mule built by Willys.
My version is only 2 wheel drive. Used the hydrostatic drive out of an old Cub Cadet garden tractor. Think I posted a build on it here a few years ago. Gets used a lot around the yard. Will haul about a half cord firewood from the processor up to the pile.

Greg

 

[f350ca]

Hard to believe it was 7 years ago I built it.


https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/mule-look-alike.27550/

Greg

 

[wachuko]

Hard to believe it was 7 years ago I built it.


https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/mule-look-alike.27550/

Greg

Ha! You made that!!! Wow!! Frigging awesome!

And that structure... beautiful! That is an artform... just wow...

 

[NCjeeper]

I got some time on the G&E shaper today. 300 thousands depth of cut with a 20 thousands step over. A nice sharp piece of HSS.

 

[Weldingrod1]

Wow! Made the same hair clips!
Also, working through a pile of Hardinge taper scales. Volunteering for one has led to five or six...

Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

 

[BladesIIB]

Little production run of a part on my Tormach 1100MX. Have been prototyping and making all one-off parts so far. Great to test the repeatability of this machine today in some Grade 5 Titanium. 60 parts, 180 holes with counterbores, 120 tool changes, and 30 engravings. Happy with the cycle time at 4:03 of actual machine cycle time and 6-7 minutes total time. As always, some great learning. Really loving this Tormach so far.

 

[BGHansen]

POTD was making a new plastic for a circa 1980 Williams Firepower pinball machine. This particular pinball was a pretty big seller, something like 17,000 of them made back in the day. Features were voice and multi-ball.

I picked up the game a while back and noticed during some preventive maintenance that a corner was broken off one of the plastics. The Firepower was a pretty popular machine, there's a website from an enthusiast with nice schematics, scanned instructions, and scans of the plastics.

I took a shot making a replacement by printing the broken one on our color laser printer. Then used a glue stick to attach it to a piece of 1/8" lexan (original plastic was 0.080" thick). Didn't show any of the "machining", but drilled the attaching holes with a hand drill, rough cut to the line on a band saw, and sanded to the line with a belt sander.

Looks pretty decent on the game, not perfect, but you'd have trouble telling it's a replacement.

Thanks for looking, Bruce


Color laser printed image on top, broken plastic at the bottom


New plastic at the bottom. Used a glue stick on the surface of the printed image to stick it to the 1/8" lexan, then sanded to the boundary line.


My replacement is the one on the right


All good now

 

[NCjeeper]

Love the old machine. I remember going to Sears and playing the Gargoyle pinball machine all the time.