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11th Feb 2011, 01:46 PM #166Dave J Guest
I like the shape and finish of the handle.
Miniature bearings with inside and outside press fits, very impressive. You are getting better at machining real quick, great work Eskimo.
Dave
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11th Feb 2011, 04:03 PM #167
Hi Eskimo,
Nice work, clever idea using the rifling to spin the brush. I have a friend with some of those "toys" he is a full-time stockmaker.
As Dave said, your skills are progressing nicely.
Regards
Ray
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11th Feb 2011, 05:35 PM #168Most Valued Member
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thanks guys
Turned out better than I thought...and I have a couple of orders to boot
but as usual they will be love jobs .... my club colleagues are scrooges...dont tell em I said that tho
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11th Feb 2011, 07:30 PM #169Dave J Guest
As long as the favors come back around to you.
Be careful, as it is all to easy to fall into the "mate category" with people because you have equipment and the skills to use them.
Here are a couple for a bit of a laugh
My Grand father told me a story years ago because he mentioned being a boiler maker.
He was talking to a bloke some where and he mentioned that he was a boiler maker and had his own oxy set/ welders and liked to do his own projects in the shed.
The bloke turned to him and said "you're just the bloke I have been looking for" I have an older model VW van that needs some rust cut out of it and he could do the job for me.(as if he was doing my grandfather a favor)
My Grandfather said that he would do it, and that he should get a quote from the panel beaters, double it and thats what he would do it for. The bloke was shocked and said "that's a bit unfair" My Grandfather then told him that the panel beaters did this every day of the week and knew what they where doing, they also have all the equipment and tools to do it and get everything at trade price.
If he was to do it, it would take him two or three times as long because he was working on his own without the proper equipment, and have to pay higher prices for everything. The bloke was not impressed, lol.
Another one a mate was telling me last year was his dad (a machinist for around 40 years) always gets guy's knocking on the door asking him to do some machining for cheap or nothing. He's tells them that he will do it, but they have to supply the materials and cutting tools and while he is doing it they can mow his lawn, again they think it is unfair and don't bother to get the job done.lol.
Though they do expect you to do it while their at the pub having a bear.
Nice work again anyway.
Dave
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13th Feb 2011, 09:21 PM #170Pink 10EE owner
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Just lately I have been working on my slotter I purchased just before christmas.. It was pretty grubby when I got it so I stripped it down completely and cleaned it up and have now got it mostly back together...
It is a old Denbigh mill that has been converted.... The person who did the conversion did quite a good job, but they skimped in a couple of places.... They pinned the second stage for the knee jack (as I assume the thread was worn out) and the cross slide screw was worn out.. I have just made a new screw for the jack and new nuts for both.... Both are square threads 4TPI pitch.... Was quite an entertaining exercise to make both... I ground up the threading tools on the TC grinder...
I need to make up a new control box for it... I have got a 24V contactor off ebay but need to pick up some other things like stop and start switches and a 415-24V transformer...
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13th Feb 2011, 09:23 PM #171Pink 10EE owner
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14th Feb 2011, 08:41 AM #172.
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Impressive work RC.
Bob.
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14th Feb 2011, 10:07 AM #173Most Valued Member
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Nice work RC. I hate cutting 4tpi threads, I'm always thinking about what would happen if you picked the thread up wrong when you were almost finished.
Stuart
p.s. the second picture in your second post does work for me.
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14th Feb 2011, 02:15 PM #174Most Valued Member
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hi they both look great. not to mention cross slide assembly. did you make the knurler from any drawings? well done.
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14th Feb 2011, 03:51 PM #175Pink 10EE owner
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14th Feb 2011, 05:47 PM #176Dave J Guest
Good job RC.
I like my imperial lathe and when I buy another larger lathe it will be imperial as well, I think the metric ones just complicate things.
Dave
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Imperial versus Metric
I don't know Dave. Everything I had was imperial then I bought my metric mill. Up till then it was dead easy to buy imperial measuring gear and milling cutters on US Ebay. Type in an item you are after then add mm to the search. Next to nothing is found. Unfortunately ( and understandably ) metric stuff is thin on the ground in the US.
But Metric is a lot easier to use. None of the conversion of fractions to decimals.
Now I have to convert inches to millimetres and vise versa. One or the other would be great, but the Schaublin stuffed all that up. If I had a choice between the two now I would go the Metric route.
Bob.
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14th Feb 2011, 06:57 PM #178Dave J Guest
It's only the screw cutting part I like about imperial lathes, I would rather work in metric measurements.
My lathe came with metric and imperial graduations on the dials, but after fitting a 3 axis DRO it is much easier to use in either.
Dave
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14th Feb 2011, 08:12 PM #179Pink 10EE owner
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Yes I am the same... I work in mm exclusively... If I have a dimension in inches I convert it over... Both the lathe and mill have DRO's that are set to metric..
90% of my lathe screwcutting is in imperial, that is why I got the imperial lead screw.... It was no extra expense to order imperial over metric, as the company does not keep these lathes in stock and get them in as ordered from Taiwan.. And the manufacturer makes the same lathe for the US market which is all imperial...
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14th Feb 2011, 11:27 PM #180Senior Member
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I'm building a lathe stand for my taig lathe - VSD, and a few safety features - the biggest benefit for me is having an area in the stand for placing DTI, taper turner, etc. the current mount is basically a board and everything I put down either rolls away, or gets lost in the swarf. desbromilow.blogspot.com for the details.
next projects are some mill parts, and then a standalone CNC indexer using PICAXE as the drive.
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