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I just finished up my latest project the other day. It always seems like I end up making something practical, and then something fun. The last project was a ER25 collet adapter for my G0602 Lathe (which came in handy for this project). So for this project I decided to make a whimsical object from my childhood, a game from simpler times before electronics and video called “Jacks”. Some may be too young to remember this game while others surely will.
The object of the game was to randomly drop 10 jacks and bounce a little red ball and see how many you can pick up before the ball bounced twice. Pick up one was called “onesies”; two was “twosies” and so forth. Anyway, I liked the form of the Jack and I thought it would be cool to have an oversized one in my curio.
Jacks are commonly 6-spike, smooth, round, tapered with 4 of the spikes having ball ends. I did some research and found a pic of a cool flat sided version that I liked. It presented a lot of facets (48) for a highly reflective quality with the traditional 4 rounds balls to counter the overall angular shape. This also made it a greater challenge and I was able to utilize several of my tooling fixtures. I hope you like it as much as I do.
Rick
Material: 6061 aluminum, 1” square bar stock
Equipment:
Grizzly G0602
ER25 collet adapter
LMS High Torque Mini Mill
LMS 4” Rotary Table w/ indexing
Ball Turner
Variable Angle Plate
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The object of the game was to randomly drop 10 jacks and bounce a little red ball and see how many you can pick up before the ball bounced twice. Pick up one was called “onesies”; two was “twosies” and so forth. Anyway, I liked the form of the Jack and I thought it would be cool to have an oversized one in my curio.
Jacks are commonly 6-spike, smooth, round, tapered with 4 of the spikes having ball ends. I did some research and found a pic of a cool flat sided version that I liked. It presented a lot of facets (48) for a highly reflective quality with the traditional 4 rounds balls to counter the overall angular shape. This also made it a greater challenge and I was able to utilize several of my tooling fixtures. I hope you like it as much as I do.
Rick
Material: 6061 aluminum, 1” square bar stock
Equipment:
Grizzly G0602
ER25 collet adapter
LMS High Torque Mini Mill
LMS 4” Rotary Table w/ indexing
Ball Turner
Variable Angle Plate
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