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POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?
- Thread starter wachuko
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Adapted an import power feed to the Y axis on the Bridgeport. Nothing it came with fit the mill. It was advertised as an X feed, so I expected to have to get creative. I got a little more than I expected.
The little bearing sleeve was nowhere near the right size. So I made one on the lathe, no big deal...
The mount for the table didn't come with the bearing retainer plate I expected to mount the feed motor. Mildly annoying, but whatever. Drill and tap 2 holes in the stock retainer plate. I do wish the unit used the same bolt circle distance. The holes ended up offset to the outside edge. I was concerned about the wall thickness, but it held up. 6mm bolts. Hmmm.. Not a great sign for a 50s machine. Turns out that the keyway in the drive gear was 3mm. Pfffttt. I had a some extra keys, so I cut one down a little. So it would fit both sides.
Then needed a shaft extension to get the handle a little bit further out so that it wouldn't interfere. Mimicked the stock shaft end so the stock handle would fit. Broke a cheap 1/8 end mill cutting a keyway. Just wasn't careful enough. Thankfully I had a spare to finish up. Drilled and pinned the shaft extension and made a spacer for the handle so everything is snug when the handle is installed.
It works, so a win, but a lot more work than the more expensive Z unit from PM. Interesting project though.
The little bearing sleeve was nowhere near the right size. So I made one on the lathe, no big deal...
The mount for the table didn't come with the bearing retainer plate I expected to mount the feed motor. Mildly annoying, but whatever. Drill and tap 2 holes in the stock retainer plate. I do wish the unit used the same bolt circle distance. The holes ended up offset to the outside edge. I was concerned about the wall thickness, but it held up. 6mm bolts. Hmmm.. Not a great sign for a 50s machine. Turns out that the keyway in the drive gear was 3mm. Pfffttt. I had a some extra keys, so I cut one down a little. So it would fit both sides.
Then needed a shaft extension to get the handle a little bit further out so that it wouldn't interfere. Mimicked the stock shaft end so the stock handle would fit. Broke a cheap 1/8 end mill cutting a keyway. Just wasn't careful enough. Thankfully I had a spare to finish up. Drilled and pinned the shaft extension and made a spacer for the handle so everything is snug when the handle is installed.
It works, so a win, but a lot more work than the more expensive Z unit from PM. Interesting project though.
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Today i begin a new project, the project is to make a snow plow for the little niva. Here where i live there has not snowed at all this year. But i want to be ready, there are no snow plows available to buy anyer near me. I've seen this picture and plan to make it as close to it as i can. Also i plan to use as much of material i have sitting around as i can, steel is very expensive now. I have this big pressure cylinder, so i took my angle grinder to it and cut it in half and shorten in. After looking close the inside was covered in mud, so i pressure wash the halves this revealed that the metal is very pitted but still has enough thickness to do the job. I plan to work on this when i have some extra spare time and extra money to buy more steel.
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A coworker of mine has a daughter who is on a rowing team. She wants a way to hang up her... Paddle? Oar? on the wall since it has their team and her name on the spoon. Unfortunately, they've been unable to find wall hooks big enough (the thing is like 3" in diameter).
He knows I do machining and asked me if I could make a wall hook. I've been looking for a project that would let me actually use my bender for something useful, so I agreed right away.
Yesterday, I made a 3" die for my bender and tested it out. Pictured is some 1/2" 353 brass rod I bent up as a test piece. This is definitely right at the capacity limit of my bender!
Also, I'm bad at bending and barely know what I'm doing.
He knows I do machining and asked me if I could make a wall hook. I've been looking for a project that would let me actually use my bender for something useful, so I agreed right away.
Yesterday, I made a 3" die for my bender and tested it out. Pictured is some 1/2" 353 brass rod I bent up as a test piece. This is definitely right at the capacity limit of my bender!
Also, I'm bad at bending and barely know what I'm doing.
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"Rebuilt" my drill drawer with some new holders.
Now got all useable(for me) sizes between 1mm to 25mm sorted in one place instead of several.
All of them have <1/2" shaft so they work in almost any chuck, morse tapers will be stored in a second drawer.
Need to get a 13.5mm and 8.8mm then I should be set.
Also need to attach a small label to the grey index, the top ledge was too small to print the numbers into it.
Now got all useable(for me) sizes between 1mm to 25mm sorted in one place instead of several.
All of them have <1/2" shaft so they work in almost any chuck, morse tapers will be stored in a second drawer.
Need to get a 13.5mm and 8.8mm then I should be set.
Also need to attach a small label to the grey index, the top ledge was too small to print the numbers into it.
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My son is getting married in September. He asked if I could make him a seal for the invitations. Also tie clips for the groomsmen. He sent me his design and this is what I have for him to check out on
the first prototype. They are getting married in Tahoe
Cutting oil is my blood.
the first prototype. They are getting married in Tahoe
Cutting oil is my blood.
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Today i spent the entire morning changing tires. I had 3 cars to change tires on but i handled 24 tires. I did use the little niva to move them from one garage to the other. The tire machine is very handy also takes lot of time and energy, but still less than waiting at the tire shop and still having to pay for them to scratch your rims. Changing the tires wasn't hard i did have an issue with one valve stem, it was dryroded cut it off clean the surround pop a new one mounted the tire started to air it and it leaks, it has a defect in the rubber when it was molded. Defeated the tire broke the bead cut that one pull thru a new one that one the threads stripped, new valve stems are made from aluminium just painted gold to look like brass. Cut that one also installed a 3 rd valve steam and finished the job, thankfully all the tires hold air and mounted well. All the tires i moaned come second hand, i'm interested have you had issues with standard rubber tire valves, around here i can't find good quality ones, even the germany marked ones are made from aluminium ir zink just painted and fail on mouting.
