POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[Winegrower]

Finally got around to building the eye forming tooling for my Harbor Freight bender.

Nice work! I have this HF bender, and use it occasionally, but it is always a struggle to get a setup figured out. It seems that this bender has more features and capabilities than I know about. Anybody know of a good detailed video or discussion about this tool? What Youtube stuff I’ve seen seems too elementary. There must be more to it.

 

[francist]

Anybody know of a good detailed video or discussion about this tool?

I don’t know if this will be relevant or not but Hossfeld has a number of tutorials on their website that may be useful. I’m only guessing that the HF bender is some fairly close facsimile of the Hossfeld and there’d be some crossover how they work. I don’t have either, just taking a shot in the dark.

-frank

 

[NCjeeper]

I made a little money today. Customer brought me an intake manifold with 4 broken bolts in it.

 

[Winegrower]

Hossfeld has a number of tutorials on their website

Yippee, thanks, francist. Goodby Netflix for an evening.

 

[jpackard56]

I was seeing several YouTube machinist channels show off their vertical bridgeport type machines with steering wheel quill feed. A few weeks ago, I found a seller that wanted $150, and had an adapter for a few Wells-Index machines, but not my model. So while checking to see what was different, I figured I could make the adapter from some scrap, and bought the wheel from eBay for $30.
The drive into the existing quill shaft was 2 1/4" roll pins 180 degrees apart, on a 1 in bolt circle (I had a assortment box of roll pins, that when measured, were not 1/4" but 6mm, so I drilled the holes for a nice fit). The steering wheel uses 6 M5x0.8 screws on a 70mm bolt circle (these came with the steering wheel). Easy work on the rotary table.
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The original quill handle came bent and brazed repaired from the previous owner.
I have not used the machine, so I can't say if this is a good modification or not. It does look different.

Yes, please give some feedback after you've tried it for a while. It definitely looks interesting.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Nothing major, just fixing up a semesters worth of bike maintenance, which included fixing up one of my rear lights. The battery had gotten weak and the lens had disappeared when the light fell off my bike.

So, newish battery, all former cell phone batteries and the like, wired in parallel

Large piece of some clear plastic I found at the scrap yard for free (we don't sell plastic!), cleaned up and polished

Parting off, handy that you can see where the tool is

Faced and polished the other side

Milled to fit the case

Installed, this time with a screw for extra security!

Now into the next project!

 

[pontiac428]

Now into the next project!

Not until you calculate the index of refraction for that lens, young man! I want that result in diopters and Fresnels. Now get back to your room!

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Hmm, I think the results are "bloody hell that's bright" and "I can't see anymore"

 

[ChazzC]

After downsizing our Christmas decorations and utilizing under-bed storage bins for gift wrapping supplies I recaptured space in “my” portion of the basement & took advantage of Home Depot’s “storage & organization” sale and customized a wire shelving unit and optimized use of the space:



Hey, I’ve got empty space: just in time for Cabin Fever!!

 

[snoopdog]

I guess I'll try and drill it this weekend, went a little undersized on the front, peened it, nice and snug. A little nervous about drilling.