For Your Enjoyment.

[kingmt01]

There really isn't a section for this & if considered inappropriate I don't mind if it's removed.

This is repurposed from a old rifle scope to something I thought was useful. Well something I wanted. I'm teaching my 5 year old son to shoot & would like some video. I really want to video a deer if he takes one being his first year.

There isn't a bunch of machining but I'll list what I did.

I used a #10 24tpi screw as a post to keep the camera from swiveling in the base & the mounting screw is a 1/4 20. The end of the #10 was turned to skim just enough off for it to set into the hole of the camera. I also turned the head down so I didn't have to remove as much from the work piece & staying farther away from the dovetails. I then made my measurements to find where the centre of the holes would be. The one for the pin was centered in a rail which was drilled & taped. The other ended up on the side of a rail so I used the endmill to cut that hole since a drill would have been pushed. After that hole I flipped the work to counter bore for the screw heads.

I hope you enjoy.

 

[dulltool17]

Others could disagree, of course, but this is entirely appropriate. It seems to me that half the battle of our hobby is seeing what others don't, being creative and making the best use of what we have available. Good job!

 

[kingmt01]

Thanks. That's what I was thinking as I was making it. I seen a post the other day where someone said not to use hardware bolts in a lathe. It seems like that is what I do the most of. I usually modify things were I can instead of starting from scratch. I just thought beginners would like to see not everything is so complex & that you don't have to have a drawing for everything you do. I usually just wing it as I go only knowing how I need it to work once it is done but not having any idea what it is going to look like until I'm almost done.