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

[Eyerelief]

Following Jeff's lead (@Janderso ), thought I would spend part of my Saturday making a floating reamer holder. Neat project. I went rogue early on since my tailstock has an MT4 taper. Once I was in the ditch, I just decided to stay there. The threads are of no recognizable dimension other than 13 tpi. That was stupid of me because if forced me to wait for the threading dial most of the time. An even number would have been smarter. The diameter of the threads was adjusted to allow for the material I was using. All of the material was pulled out of my scrap box. I apologize for the bush league pics, I am on my way out the door.

The "main housing" is made out of what I believe to be 12L14 but I am not sure. I say this because it gave me no trouble. I oversized the ball bearing to .375 because that is what fell out of the bag-o-bearings first.

The chuck has a JT3 taper so the "chuck carrier" is a chunk. It is 4041. I had just enough to make this part and the drive plate. The drive pins are stainless, pressed in.

The "drive plate" has the piece of HSS pressed in at center. The HSS was taken off the back of an old HSS end mill and turned down to interference fit my reamed hole. It is ground flush with the top of the drive plate since the bearing in the main body is proud by almost .030"


Finally, the collar is some sort of stainless I am guessing since it had no rust on it. Here it is all put together with a Jacobs super ball bearing 14N chuck. I chose the 14N size because it closed all the way and opens to a half inch or so.

 

[piper184]

The axle shaft for these guide rollers was badly bent and the shop press took care of most of it. Then I realized it was just a 1/2" threaded rod with a piece of 1/2" black water pipe slipped over it.
A 1" piece of scrap from the bin was readily turned to size, leaving a shoulder on the inside to keep the rollers from sliding inwards.

In the days before owning a lathe, I probably would have slipped a piece of 1/2" pipe over a piece of redi-rid and called it good.

 

[IHinIN]

Made some small jacks with 1” and 2” tall risers. They are 1.25” dia and the screws are 1/2”-20 grade 8 bolts.

 

[Weldingrod1]

Nice transition on the hex!

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[SouthernChap]

Nice transition on the hex!

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Yeah, I noticed that, very tidy.

 

[IHinIN]

Thanks guys!
I might make a few more risers and a couple of screws with a 120 deg V on top to support shafts and some screws with a smaller contact point on top.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Put up a 8x12 Costco shed with my eldest daughter. Hard work in the humidity but we did it. Base is completely level front to back and side to side. Now I get get all the yard stuff out of the garage so I can start organizing the garage better

 

[rabler]

Put up a 8x12 Costco shed with my eldest daughter.

We used one of those for a while as a storage for horse feed. Adhering 1" XPS foamboard to the ceiling helps a lot in keeping the internal temperature from getting ridiculous in the sun.

 

[woodchucker]

I use a pancake fan (120v 60cfm) with an old mercury thermostat to remove the heat from the top of the shed. I pull it out the gable vent I put in.
It does a good job of pulling the heat out.

 

[woodchucker]

finished up the 6x48 sander's guard, so put some 45s on the square tubing.
I laid down some nickels... can't call them dimes since my welding is only 1/2 value... Some welds came out good for me, some not so good. Good practice for joining the other tubes. The nice thing is grinding makes it look good.

btw: flux core HF blue 90amp always hot trigger. Modified with bridge rectifier, A/C pancake fan to get way more duty cycle. I have never overheated it since.