Thread: Your latest project

Thanks for the explanation Bob.

You better make that ss tray!

Simon

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Originally Posted by simonl

Thanks for the explanation Bob.

You better make that ss tray!

Simon

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Cheers, SWMBO has been fair pumping wool through that machine this morning.
She's also made me sit though parts of a youtube video that shows all the accessories that such machines can use - HINT HINT

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Just do as your told Bob!



Simon

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Originally Posted by BobL

Thanks. Wifey simply can't sit still for long. She's a huge reader and that's about the only time she doesn't have something crafty in her hands. She also watches a lot of TV/internet but she's always doing something crafty while doing that. Going camping is a giant PITA as there are always at least half a dozen bags full of craft stuff IZ have find room for in the van or car, "just in case she gets bored", but she only ends up touching about half of them.

And I thought I was the only one married to someone like that. You gotta love em though.

Not much of a project. New leaf spring bolts for my Jeep , material is 4140 alloy and I use HSS tools. Good surface finish even with the roughing tool at 290 rpm , very slow feed and some tap magic applied with a brush . DOC is .030". The diam. is 9/16" with UNF threads or whatever it was called before UNF was introduced as the standard.

Originally Posted by morrisman

. DOC is .030". The diam. is 9/16" with UNF threads or whatever it was called before UNF was introduced as the standard.

Mmmmm I stand to be corrected, but I believe that was "N.F."

Originally Posted by morrisman

. UNF threads or whatever it was called before UNF was introduced as the standard.

Possibly more likely called SAE threads (Society of Automotive Engineers) in the forties? I think I still have a few old spanners that originally came with old vehicles marked SAE.

Frank.

UNF was based on Sellers thread, devised in the 1860s.

From the parts book: WW2 era. The - 2 designation is the class of the thread I think ?

Originally Posted by franco

Possibly more likely called SAE threads (Society of Automotive Engineers) in the forties? I think I still have a few old spanners that originally came with old vehicles marked SAE.

Frank.

We still have a few components at work that use SAE threads on air fittings/piping. It's really difficult to get the "new" parts when we have to replace anything.

Ben.

crikies, for a moment I thought I was in the wrong forum...a haberdashery or weaving or knitting one or similar

I do like that wood tho BobL

Not a lot of MW in these, but here are the wool carding accessories I've made for SWMBO

A: Drum Carder brush (cylindrical handles was a failed small drum for the Drum carding machine and repurposed for this brush). Brass endcaps, and brush component comes from Truck mudguard brush.
B: Custom curved tine carding combs - tines are 3mm SS TIG welding rods.
C: Traditional carding combs - tines are 2.4mm steel TIG welding rods.
D: SS Hook for removing processed wool; from drum carder
E: gauge for setting spacings on Drum Carder. One side is 1/4" the other is 1/2"
Except for C (WA Sheoak) the wood is the same Marri as the Carding machine.

There are still about 4 more accessories (that I know of) to make


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PS there are no arguments when those Combs are in use.

Thanks for the pictures Bob, I've shown my SWMBO and now I've to make the tools that you made, to go with her Carder. By the way, your/wife's carder looks a real piece of ART, both in the timber and execution.
Kryn

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Thanks for the pictures Bob, I've shown my SWMBO and now I've to make the tools that you made, to go with her Carder. By the way, your/wife's carder looks a real piece of ART, both in the timber and execution.
Kryn

Thanks Kryn.

These are some of the "formers" I made for her needlefelting work.
Now she wants "Sets" for her classes she's going to run.
Jarrah and Olive/.
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Originally Posted by BobL

Cheers, SWMBO has been fair pumping wool through that machine this morning.
She's also made me sit though parts of a youtube video that shows all the accessories that such machines can use - HINT HINT

I can see bob will soon be wearing an 18th century nobelman's wig.