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

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New tool chest to organize the workbench. I agonized over this a bit, and decided to just cut the top lid off. Well, I tried to pull the piano hinge pin first, resorted to a cutoff wheel. Otherwise the open lid would have pushed it away from the wall two inches and meant losing the shelf over the top. Thought about taking the casters off of a roll around unit but that would sit up high enough that inside the top drawers would not be visible, and more expensive.
 
Ironman2 said:
Made a threading tap and die holder for my lathe tailstock. I used a spare MT3 x JT6 and machined the taper off it and used it as a locating pine for the U-joint spline. I chopped off the end of a 3/8 drive extension to fit the tap chuck, and silver soldered the piece into the die adapter. This give me a 3 inch slide on the spline
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Nice job Gerry!


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Project from the other day. My bed cover keeps sliding down behind the temporary(read permanent) belt/gear setup.
I could extend the rubber but then the whole flap is ridicilous. This is the table moved all the way in, perfect for the rubber to get stuck behind the big gear on the way out.
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Did a quick mockup to see how this would work. It's lower than the slideways but also angled back towards the mill. This should let the rubber slide over it but make any coolant on it run back towards the mill so it can be caught by the plates underneath.
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Played around a bit more with the shape and tried different things to smooth everything out.
It's real easy to put shape into the sheet, a lot less easy to make it symmetrical and smooth... :grin:
Quick paintjob just so it doesnt rust. Future plan is to renovate the entire machine where it will all be painted in an uniform, industrial color.
Seems to work really well so far!
Judging by the surface finish I'm very happy about it, there's no plaster here, just a quick sanding with 120grit and then rattlecan paint.
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rabler said:
Not quite sure what I'm looking at. Is this a CNC conversion on an older mill?
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Indeed! It's a ~1947 Kearney & Trecker 2HL.
I have an old thread about part of the conversion here:
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The life of an old mill(K&T 2HL)

Hello everyone! Been posting some of this machine on another machinist forum but figured I should post here as well. Always fun and education to have more input considering that I'm very much an amateur at these things. I consider this entire machine an ongoing project hence why it's here as a...
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Few Missing pictures in this. Last few days of on and off work on the crane. Working on the carriage to carry the chain fall, the yellow part here.
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Starting with some rectangle tube milled out some pockets to fit round slugs into. Slugs were welded into place. This needed to be done, because the inside width of the tube is bigger than the roller. Slugs were then drilled with clearance and tap holes for the 5/8" axel bolt for the roller. Then clearance was milled for the roller. Milled over size by .0015". (Second picture isn't complete. That hole gets opened up to square hole just over the size of the roller).
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Next was slabbing up some more steel, off of the most stupidly heavy chunk of anything I have around here. (2.5x3 by 48" long bar). These get a pocket milled for a bearing, which hold the side rollers for the carriage. .
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Once welded into place, a bit of clearance for the cross tubes was milled into the ends of the tube. Needed the height of the tubes to be 3" for everything, but the resultant height was too high if stacked up. So just notched one tube by 1" deep. This actually improves the design slightly, as things key together and in the event of anything stupid happening, they can't just slide apart. A few tabs to weld on, few bolts to trim, and couple of holes to drill by hand yet.

It's starting to look like the CAD says it should.
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And lastly but not leastly, cleaned the mill drill. Been really trying to keep up on cleaning as I finish steps of projects. I have to say, it usually goes pretty fast. Making the next part and starting with a clean mill or lathe really is a pleasure.

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I spent some time cleaning up my Emmert pattern makers vise. I paid $65 for it in '98 and never took the time to mount it, I sort of forgot about it until recently. A hot Simple Green soak and bead blasting got it cleaned up nicely.

After seeing the asphaltum finish someone on another forum put on a project , I momentarily considered going that route. Once I saw the number of parts involved, I chickened out! I decided to rust blue it instead and finished it up with BLO. It turned out so nice I refinished my grandfathers Athol 614 while I was still set up.

First boil and partial carding on the static and first rust on the dynamic.

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After two rounds of rusting/boiling/carding and BLO finish.

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The finished pair posing for the camera.

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