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6th Jul 2017, 11:48 PM #1831Golden Member
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I am making the bracket for the wood router (the body is 92mm in diameter). I am planning to use it to fix the run out chuck on the lathe.
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7th Jul 2017, 06:29 PM #1832Golden Member
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I spent the afternoon to finish off the project. I am quite pleased with the result on the chuck.
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10th Jul 2017, 06:16 PM #1833Pink 10EE owner
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I am such a rough hack when it comes to some tools.
Building a shed extension and had to latch onto the existing shed. Needed to counterbore eight holes so some 2" pipe will butt up against the wood posts.
Made up this tool to do the counterboring after I have done most of the hole with a holesaw.
Yes it is pretty rough, but it did the job. Cut the "teeth" with an angle grinder after hardfacing the 2" pipe it is made out of.
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10th Jul 2017, 07:19 PM #1834
Great work R.C.
I had to do something similar when I built my house. I didn't even hardface it. Worked fine on the oregon it had to cut and ended up doing about 100 counterbores. Some of them needed to be at weird angles, so I turned the drive 'pin' into a pilot to go into pre-drilled holes at the correct angle....Cheers, Joe
retired - less energy, more time to contemplate projects and more shed time....
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10th Jul 2017, 09:15 PM #1835Senior Member
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My latest project is a DRO for my HM-46, just arrived from Singapore (yay). I got a question though, not sure if it deserves its own thread, but can I install the x-axis glass scale on the front? I reckon I have a way to do it, seems very logical, out of the way of the table stops etc. Requires a little creative thinking and two new brackets, but the reader would be on the stationary part of the table rather than the moving. It's just unusual and usually I see it done on the back. Front seems a lot better though as you lose no y-axis travel. Am I crazy? (in this matter)
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10th Jul 2017, 09:30 PM #1836Most Valued Member
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Jackaroo, wouldn't it have been easier to use a bearing cage instead of making the aluminium cage?? Just wondering, that's all. Have heard a few comments that your way of fixing it, is only correct for the particular size it's ground to. Something about the scroll variances as it opens and closes??
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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10th Jul 2017, 09:36 PM #1837Pink 10EE owner
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10th Jul 2017, 11:49 PM #1838Golden Member
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12th Jul 2017, 05:36 PM #1839Philomath in training
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The shiny toolbox project is finally finished! It's only taken me about 5* years, 5 cylinders of argon, a bit of coaching from the welding group and enough stainless steel to make it twice over.
Yahoo! On to the next long standing project!
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Michael
*I found a thread where I was talking about doing this in April 2012...
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12th Jul 2017, 08:28 PM #1840
Nice. Do you want me to take that one too?
I have put the other one in the middle of a 2 decker black tool trolley to make it a 3 decker. Nice colour match. I have some drawers to cut down and fit in the open section.
Dean
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12th Jul 2017, 08:56 PM #1841Philomath in training
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No, but I doubt that you would want it anyway. I made it because I wanted something small enough to lock in a filing cabinet at work, so it is only 375mm wide, 200mm deep and 275mm high. All the boxes with drawers like that are much bigger too - a small commercially available box is likely to be just a single cavity with maybe a removable tray (and in plastic). As it is empty it is just under 8kg.
At the time I started I thought I might land a job in the food industry so thought SS would be more appropriate than painted sheet steel. That didn't happen (actually, it hasn't happened about 4 times )
Michael
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12th Jul 2017, 11:42 PM #1842
Ok. I will recind the "Nice" and replace it with "Cute".
Dean
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17th Jul 2017, 02:03 PM #1843
Well done Michael,
It probably sums up more a few of us here.
"Well do it ourselves for $5x to save money on a $1x value item" Quoting the missus
But the detractors never figure in the satisfaction quotient.Of course you had to have made your own folder to do the project.
Grahame
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23rd Jul 2017, 10:37 PM #1844Golden Member
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Nothing special, a cheap $1 socket from Supercheap and whatever I found laying around in the shed.
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