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

[GoceKU]

We got the first snow of the year, and its tire changing time in my garage, i've done this task earlier on all other cars except on the Peugeot 607, the tires are winter tires made in russia but have little thread, i bought and installed the same make and model again. In the city all the snow melted but on the higher places there is still snow.

 

[mmcmdl]

The other house will be empty for nearly a week ! We're going to take a few buckets down and grab some things out of the roll arounds . Christmas in Feb as I'll never know what I'll find . 27 degrees now , too cold for getting out on the garage door issue . When we get these 50-60 degree days , seems I always have to be in at work .

 

[snoopdog]

Dressing up a drill press vise that I got for my dad 35 years ago, using a fly cutter I made about the same time.

 

[Charles scozzari]

Dressing up a drill press vise that I got for my dad 35 years ago, using a fly cutter I made about the same time. View attachment 438251

Nice finish.

 

[ChazzC]

We got the first snow of the year, and its tire changing time in my garage, i've done this task earlier on all other cars except on the Peugeot 607, the tires are winter tires made in russia but have little thread, i bought and installed the same make and model again. In the city all the snow melted but on the higher places there is still snow.
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Look like knock-offs of Bridgestone Blizzaks, but probably without the special compound. I’ve used Blizzaks for 15+ years (also known as studless snow tires) and have never regretted it: you can drive across ice likes it’s dry pavement.

 

[snoopdog]

Nice finish.

Thank you Charles, that's a really appreciated compliment.

 

[woodchucker]

Been working on a new pulley and brake system for a SB 9A. The brake will be used for emergency stop and for preventing coasting when doing some tight to shoulder or metric threading. I haven't built the step bar, or brought in the contactor to disable the motor yet, but finally finished getting the pulley and bracket built. Because I don't have the original plate from the lathe that allowed side to side, the motor requires the pulley be pushed farther out on the shaft than I care for. Ran the cable sleeve, but haven't run the inner. That will wait until I start on the pedal.
The brake seems to work well even without the pedal. After the pics I went back and chamfered all the holes in the rotor. Really crappy work on the brakes. I checked the hole pattern between the caliper mounts (bought 2) , they also didn't match (like the rotors). This is super low budget low quality hardware. I hope it doesn't come back to bite me.

I'll trim the bracket at the back before I paint it, it needs to be rounded off to match the boss it's attached to.
covid's still affecting me so I really don't get much time to work on it. I am only good for a short time.. Covid sucks.

 

[Charles scozzari]

Been working on a new pulley and brake system for a SB 9A. The brake will be used for emergency stop and for preventing coasting when doing some tight to shoulder or metric threading. I haven't built the step bar, or brought in the contactor to disable the motor yet, but finally finished getting the pulley and bracket built. Because I don't have the original plate from the lathe that allowed side to side, the motor requires the pulley be pushed farther out on the shaft than I care for. Ran the cable sleeve, but haven't run the inner. That will wait until I start on the pedal.
The brake seems to work well even without the pedal. After the pics I went back and chamfered all the holes in the rotor. Really crappy work on the brakes. I checked the hole pattern between the caliper mounts (bought 2) , they also didn't match (like the rotors). This is super low budget low quality hardware. I hope it doesn't come back to bite me.

I'll trim the bracket at the back before I paint it, it needs to be rounded off to match the boss it's attached to.
covid's still affecting me so I really don't get much time to work on it. I am only good for a short time.. Covid sucks.
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Your SB is in some beautiful condition. The brake is a great idea.

 

[woodchucker]

Your SB is in some beautiful condition. The brake is a great idea.

thanks, it's not in that great a shape. It was a basket case when I got it. But it's useable for me. Oh, and I cleaned the area I was working in. It was a swarf collector back there.

The brake is not my idea, I saw it years ago on youtube. I'm just using his idea, with my own twists.

I'll edit this in a minute. IMGUR is giving me problems not showing my rebuild album and I can't find the video I saw years ago..
it was not chrisB's it was a foreign guy, who did a nice job.

https://imgur.com/a/6OT4a

found my original post. couldn't find the video otherwise:

One of the projects on my to do list.. A foot brake for the SB 9 lathe.

The price of disc brakes has come down quite a bit, So I might order even though I'm not ready to build this yet. where when I started thinking about this a set of brakes was $60, they are now around $20 , for 2 front and back. I might even replace my brake on the clausing mill with one...

www.hobby-machinist.com

 

[GoceKU]

Look like knock-offs of Bridgestone Blizzaks, but probably without the special compound. I’ve used Blizzaks for 15+ years (also known as studless snow tires) and have never regretted it: you can drive across ice likes it’s dry pavement.

Pirelli has a very similar thread as well, with cheaper tires they are all copy or use the same mold as main brend tires, main difference is the quality and compound of the rubber and the steel belting inside. I've run very cheap tires like westlake, all the way to michelins. And found that for around town cheap tires make more sense, for longer trips better quality like continental cover much more mileage and are better on fuel and noise. I run 3 vehicles so i usually have cheap tires on my beater (605), good quality tires on my long drive car (607) and mud and snow tires on my 4x4 (niva).