This weekends project.

[hq308]

A good buddy of mine was checking out my HQ recently and expressed interest in some of the custom bits I'd made for it. He's a got a really nice HQ Monaro (2 door coupe version of my car) with a 6.0L LS motor out of a VE Commodore (Pontiac G8) so I started last weekend by making him a nice cover for his wiper motor.



So this weekend I decided to make him a billet cover for his master cylinder. I started off by cutting off a piece of 80mm x 16mm aluminium on my bandsaw.


I faced off the ends


I started off by milling out the hollow section underneath, I used a ball mill to in the corners to round it off.


Then to the top, I rough milled the edges before ball milling them to get a nice rounded edge.


I used my rotary table to round of the corners, (forgot to get a pic) and then faced of the top with an end mill.


I finished it off with some ball milling on the top and a quick polish.

The finished product next to the original pressed tin one.



My buddy lives about 40 minutes away so I haven't had a chance to fit it yet

 

[12bolts]

Mate, he should be stoked with that!

Cheers Phil

 

[hq308]

Thanks guys.

 

[churchjw]

That is nice work. Details like that make any machine a work of art from a car to a mill. Doing stuff like that is why I wanted a mill in the first place. GREAT JOB.

Jeff

 

[8ntsane]

Very Nice work!
Custom made parts like this give a nice touch to any car. Your friend will be more than pleased with these items. What was the time frame from start to finish?

Great Looking Work

Paul

 

[hq308]

What was the time frame from start to finish?

Including polishing, I spent around 6 hours. It was all done on my X2 clone mini-mill and when it comes to milling I'm still a 'newby', I've only had the mill about 6 months.

 

[8ntsane]

Including polishing, I spent around 6 hours. It was all done on my X2 clone mini-mill and when it comes to milling I'm still a 'newby', I've only had the mill about 6 months.

6 months at the helm of your mill and your turning out work like this.
David, thats very impressive. I noticed the drawing as well. Are you doing these as well?
6 hrs start to finish, polishing included, yep, your well on your way, and learning fast.

Paul

 

[hq308]

Yep doing my own drawings too using Solid Edge 2D which I'm slowly learning myself. IMHO it's a great program for a beginner to learn on and best of all it's free.
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/velocity/solidedge/free2d/

Thanks for all the comments, I'm really happy with how it turned out and as soon as my buddy fits it and takes some photos of it fitted I'll post them here.