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POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?
- Thread starter wachuko
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Nice idea. Maybe Mount a dressing diamond on a similar bar. You could then dress the wheel square to the slot...
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Did a couple of small welding and, metal contortion exercises. I had a brand new Golden Rod oil can that I wanted to try and use for filling hyd lifters. It worked, but the pump handle kept bending under the pressure, so I decided to reinforce it. Cut up some light pieces of scrap and welded four of them to the existing handle, and cleaned it up with a flap wheel. No more bending. The next one was a repair of the engine cowl on the Hustler mower. I was out mowing when the plastic cooling fan came apart with a bang, and caused major carnage to the engine shroud. Found an old catalytic converter shield in the scrap pile and beat it into submission, welded on a top section and riveted it to the existing cowl, back in business. Mike
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After two and half days in bed with food poisoning from a counterfeit PEPSI drink i finally got on my feet to get something done. First on the list was to move the tire changing machine i had to keep the bead braking pedal down when moving it thru the small door. I used couple round bars under it to make it roll easy. I started to plan a power and tool panel to mount near the machine, but then got a call that heating pallet just cross the border so i need to clean the garage and make room for them. I clean the left side but i still wanted to power wash the wall tiles, but the shop air lines wore open. Because of that i went around and fitted air chucks and valves to all the opening also fitted and pressure gauge and pressurised the pipework. My small compressor only got it up to 5,5bar but it holds. Then i pressure wash the tiles with soap and degreaser. I'm not 100% but still managed to do decent size work in short time.
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A little project for my son. This is a creep cylinder for his Clark forklift. Exactly what it does I'm not sure, it's part of the clutch/brake system. The original cylinder cracked and was leaking. A replacement part was not available. So I built one.
I did this on my manual lathe, major diameter is 1.875'', smallest diameter is 1.375, bore is 1.125 x 3.95 deep. Material is 1018 cold rolled. I didn't get any in-process pictures, but it's just simple turning.
But I found one more feature that I did not see when I made the drawing. 4 holes, 90° apart.... 0.032 diameter drilled through the wall.
Had to order some drill bits. 0.8mm (0.035'') Picked up some solid carbide circuit board drills from Amazon.
I just used the flat on the part to clock the 4 holes. I could have dialed it in, or used the rotary table, but the positioning is not that critical.
I used my Albrecht sensitive chuck in a 1/2'' collet
Took about 30 seconds to drill each hole. Manually peck drilling with coolant mist. About 3500 RPM.
Then mill the slots in the end. Find center with the Blake. Set up on the flat to clock the slots properly.
And done
I did this on my manual lathe, major diameter is 1.875'', smallest diameter is 1.375, bore is 1.125 x 3.95 deep. Material is 1018 cold rolled. I didn't get any in-process pictures, but it's just simple turning.
But I found one more feature that I did not see when I made the drawing. 4 holes, 90° apart.... 0.032 diameter drilled through the wall.
Had to order some drill bits. 0.8mm (0.035'') Picked up some solid carbide circuit board drills from Amazon.
I just used the flat on the part to clock the 4 holes. I could have dialed it in, or used the rotary table, but the positioning is not that critical.
I used my Albrecht sensitive chuck in a 1/2'' collet
Took about 30 seconds to drill each hole. Manually peck drilling with coolant mist. About 3500 RPM.
Then mill the slots in the end. Find center with the Blake. Set up on the flat to clock the slots properly.
And done
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Got the spindle put back together:
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Today my heating pallet arraved. The big garage got its 2 tones i did not take picture from it but they are stored. For my house i had the 2 tones just rolled in with a pallet jack over the inspection pit. Then i lay down the cut down pallets that raise the sacs of the ground. And lastly stack the sacks for the first time with the labels facing one way and overlapping each others. The final count is 150 sacks of 15 kg each, to say my country's economy has taken a nose dive is an understatement price of the heating palate is exactly double from last year, also fuel prices are coming down on open market but here they are going up. I'm still not 100% but this heavy work helped me get my appetite back.
