What job did you do today in your shop?

Rigging today . I've moved lathes . I've moved mills . I've moved everything in between . This frikken piece of excercise equipment was a royal pain in the butt . Couldn't have done it without the help of the Kubota . Well , the truck , 2 4 runners and the CRV are packed and we're ready to make the trip to DC . Hope to see you tonight ! :grin: :big grin:
 
Built a 250 kcmil URD wire bender for routing service wires into power boxes for an all in one 12kw power inverter and 200amp transfer switch box .

Used 1/2" ID square tubing to accept a 1/2" drive rachet or breaker bar, ball bearing on outer end with a roller pressed over the bearing and then drilled out and welded a 3/8" square drive adapter end for the inner so that different diameter sockets could be used depending on wire diameter. Who knows may even work or may break it , but it is worth a try.

Tubing is a bit thin that I had so will be interesting to see how it works overall. 250kcmil is about 9/16 diameter bit bigger than 4/ought Aluminum stranded service wire with a tough direct bury insulation layer. Roller is a bit deformed made it out of the 5/8" thick x 1" steel plug cores from annular drilled holes in the backhoe thumb.

Worth a try, know I can't bend the cable near sharp enough with bare hands. Also bought an amazon 1/2' drive unit for $9 that does seem heavy enough but having 2 should help getting the wire through 2" corner LB conduit boxes.
 

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I made a couple of pulleys (No. 1 & No. 4) and a guard for my Series 5 tool post grinder. Thanks to Dumore for supplying the drawings for the obsolete parts. The challenge was having to design and build a radius tool to cut the 4.00 Rad for the pulley crown.

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Finally got around to making me a bump roller for lathe work.
It was hastily done so I could get back to beer drinking and foosball watching.
The ball is from a heavy duty transfer table. The holder is made from floor sweepin’s so all I know is the chips were blue hot and really sharp. I had planned on darkening the holder with oil but the torch ran out of acetylene about 15 seconds after I sparked it off. Dropped it in oil anyway to get what I could on it. Hence the bronze color.


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I’ll not allow shop dog to use O/A torch again that’s for sure. Of course he disavowed any knowledge and was playing opossum when I went to ask him about it.
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The last few days I made a vertical steel rack for my shop to store long lengths of rounds, flats, angle and square stock.

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I will now make sliding compartment separators to segment rack into smaller sections.
 
Those rims go on a 1931 Model A Roadster that I am in the middle of doing a full mechanical and partial body restoration.

It is what I am doing in the shop but not much of it is machining related so I don't post it here.

A lot of that stuff is posted on Vintage Ford Forum under my username.

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rls1160 said:
The last few days I made a vertical steel rack for my shop to store long lengths of rounds, flats, angle and square stock.

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I will now make sliding compartment separators to segment rack into smaller sections.
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Today I started making the adjustable rack separation bars. The bars will be 1/2" round stock city to length and then bent hot using my home built gas forge; vise and anvil.

Clips are made from 1/8" x 1" flat bar stock, then bent and formed over the 3/16" L angle cross bar material. The 1/2" bars have a 90 degree dog leg on the end to capture a safety bar.

Forge:
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Sliding clips on cross bar:
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Almost done.
 
rls1160 said:
Those rims go on a 1931 Model A Roadster that I am in the middle of doing a full mechanical and partial body restoration.

It is what I am doing in the shop but not much of it is machining related so I don't post it here.

A lot of that stuff is posted on Vintage Ford Forum under my username.

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We like old cars and trucks, classics, street rods, restorations, etc., too. (For example, my avatar is a '54 Chevy truck that I built.) Many of us would love to see your work if you're so inclined to post.

Regards
 
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