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POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?
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Small one, but opens up my tooling a bit.
I had two identical M10 drawbars for my Mill. I also have 3/8 MT3 tooling as well. So I turned one from an M10 to 3/8
This enables me to use these:
I still have a few other pieces of tooling that I need to make a draw bar for. They’re MT2, so I’d need to sleeve them as well. Not sure if it’s better to just buy the MT3 equivalent of them though?
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I had two identical M10 drawbars for my Mill. I also have 3/8 MT3 tooling as well. So I turned one from an M10 to 3/8
This enables me to use these:
I still have a few other pieces of tooling that I need to make a draw bar for. They’re MT2, so I’d need to sleeve them as well. Not sure if it’s better to just buy the MT3 equivalent of them though?
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Thanks. She was my pal for 13 years.
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Spent some time actually finishing up the old arbor press. It's a good rainy day here today, so might as well make a mess in the shop!
There's chips on everything, and grinding swarf all over around the big grinder. Swept most of it up now, but need to detail the machines again, later this afternoon.
Ground the last face of the rack flat. Material was left there, so there would be something left to grind after depth grinding the rack teeth. The purchased rack had teeth that were longer than the original, so that allowed a chance to depth them 'better'. I really like this old Abrasive grinder, having the power feed for a project like this is really nice! (The back of the rack isn't is mirror finish as the photo makes it look...)
The little end mill that could, was worn out on the first 1/4" of the flutes. Still needing to mill the end square on the new rack/ram, so put that little end mill in the Shars (Deckel Clone) cutter grinder and gave it a bit more life. Wanted to relieve the shank for some clearance for the end milling operation. At this point it'll go back in the box for future projects.
The last few steps were to clean up the cover over where the rack rides, and cut some new gibs. The cover was completely as cast, so milled and ground the mating surface to the body. Also milled the gib pocket to a uniform size and depth. Then filed the machine body mating surface flat and parallel to the back of the ram/rack. Ended up shaving about .008" off of that to square it up. Used some CDA93200 bearing bronze to make some new gibs. Decided against grinding the gib surfaces, so left the fly cut 'rough' surface to hold just a touch of oil to lubricate the ram.
Of course, I'm thinking about how to make a ratcheting handle now. Might swing by harbor freight and see how big of a ratcheting wrench they have. If there's something reversible and cheap enough I might mill a hex on the pinion shaft to upgrade it yet some more. One last mod might be to drill a hole for a screw and some felt or similar, to add some friction to the handle. Would be nice if the ram stayed where it was last left...
So, finished a project in the shop. Yet another tool to sit on the shelf and hardly ever be used!
There's chips on everything, and grinding swarf all over around the big grinder. Swept most of it up now, but need to detail the machines again, later this afternoon.
Ground the last face of the rack flat. Material was left there, so there would be something left to grind after depth grinding the rack teeth. The purchased rack had teeth that were longer than the original, so that allowed a chance to depth them 'better'. I really like this old Abrasive grinder, having the power feed for a project like this is really nice! (The back of the rack isn't is mirror finish as the photo makes it look...)
The little end mill that could, was worn out on the first 1/4" of the flutes. Still needing to mill the end square on the new rack/ram, so put that little end mill in the Shars (Deckel Clone) cutter grinder and gave it a bit more life. Wanted to relieve the shank for some clearance for the end milling operation. At this point it'll go back in the box for future projects.
The last few steps were to clean up the cover over where the rack rides, and cut some new gibs. The cover was completely as cast, so milled and ground the mating surface to the body. Also milled the gib pocket to a uniform size and depth. Then filed the machine body mating surface flat and parallel to the back of the ram/rack. Ended up shaving about .008" off of that to square it up. Used some CDA93200 bearing bronze to make some new gibs. Decided against grinding the gib surfaces, so left the fly cut 'rough' surface to hold just a touch of oil to lubricate the ram.
Of course, I'm thinking about how to make a ratcheting handle now. Might swing by harbor freight and see how big of a ratcheting wrench they have. If there's something reversible and cheap enough I might mill a hex on the pinion shaft to upgrade it yet some more. One last mod might be to drill a hole for a screw and some felt or similar, to add some friction to the handle. Would be nice if the ram stayed where it was last left...
So, finished a project in the shop. Yet another tool to sit on the shelf and hardly ever be used!
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Lovely work on the arbor press! One more that I've seen on here and mean to do to my own is add an extension into the opinion so I can slide the pinion out from the rack and rotate to the position I want. Not quite as handy as a ratchet handle but fixes the main problem of handle position and is quite a bit simpler to do.
I finished up (hopefully) the suspension work on the Fungus by replacing the rear leaf spring bushings (front and rear) and the rear spring shackles. They were really shot.
Rear old vs new
Front old. Had to drill and cut the bushing to get it out (no easy way to press it out), but you can see how dry rotted out was.
Shocks and dampers were replaced relatively recently, so I'll leave those alone
I finished up (hopefully) the suspension work on the Fungus by replacing the rear leaf spring bushings (front and rear) and the rear spring shackles. They were really shot.
Rear old vs new
Front old. Had to drill and cut the bushing to get it out (no easy way to press it out), but you can see how dry rotted out was.
Shocks and dampers were replaced relatively recently, so I'll leave those alone
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Sheckel do carbide, too! The odd shape is just the grinding burr on the cutting edge.
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Machined the backplate for my 5” Bison chuck.
Dialed it in in the 4-jaw
Parted off the excess spigot length.
Took a couple of facing passes to clean it up.
Fits like a glove. Very happy with the result.
Dialed it in in the 4-jaw
Parted off the excess spigot length.
Took a couple of facing passes to clean it up.
Fits like a glove. Very happy with the result.
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Today, I finally got around to unboxing my Evolution toothy saw... I've been kinda on target lock with my Nardini, so no welding or chop sawing the last couple months.
Here it is next to the abrasive chop saw it's replacing. I won't get rid of ol' smoky, I don't think a tooth saw can completely replace an abrasive saw. I've just run this one hard on paying jobs and everything else for years and the bearings are shot, the brushes need replacing, and the armature needs to be turned. It is a USA made saw, after all, it just lived its life in abrasive dust and grit. Anyway, I'm pretty excited to put this new saw to work.
Here it is next to the abrasive chop saw it's replacing. I won't get rid of ol' smoky, I don't think a tooth saw can completely replace an abrasive saw. I've just run this one hard on paying jobs and everything else for years and the bearings are shot, the brushes need replacing, and the armature needs to be turned. It is a USA made saw, after all, it just lived its life in abrasive dust and grit. Anyway, I'm pretty excited to put this new saw to work.