2014 POTD Thread Archive

[orjo]

Today I made a simple holder for my die grinder.
The one I have has some trading at the front.
I first turned a ring with inner treads using a tap with the same pitch for the die grinder, I do not have a tool for turning inside treads yet.
This ring was welded to a plaat with a thinknes of 6 mm.
Then a piece of rectangle bar was welded to that and then was milled to clear the switch on the grinder.

Now I can grind my chuck but that is for later.

Here is a picture of the result.

 

[ddushane]

That's Cool orjo!

 

[cathead]

It's a 2 day POTD

I wanted to have a follower rest for my Monarch so I went to the scrap yard and got the materials all
for under $15.00. It involved a lot of cutting, machining and welding. Here's a couple photos of how
it turned out. The weather has been just awful with some SNOW and now WIND in northern Minnesota.
The follower rest was the result of my many hours in the shop.

 

[calstar]

Here's a video I made today of a plumb bob I posted here before.

[video=youtube_share;uGeKI1J5oq8]http://youtu.be/uGeKI1J5oq8[/video]

Just watched the vid, really great, thanks for taking/making the time to do it. I really like the music(and I'm an old guy), its perfect for the "speedy" lathe work.

Brian

 

[Canuck]

We've got a little paintball tournament coming up in a few weeks at our field and need a trophy so I turned an old black 12oz CO2 tank into this:



Another member of our group will be building up a nice wooden base...

 

[Smudgemo]

Being a hobby-guy, my shop projects are what I feel like working on, and this weekend I felt like wrapping up the tandem mountain bike I'm making to take my daughters out exploring with me. Fillet-brazed steel tubing that I'll probably rattle-can because the kids will outgrow it faster than a proper powder job is worth. I didn't even bother to file the fillets on this one.



I'm also working on a carriage-stop, but I'll save photos for when it's closer to being finished.

-Ryan

 

[Marco Bernardini]

Sub-sub-project: a couple of M6 split nuts made on the fly with the angle grinder…




I need them to finish a sub-project: my shop made rollers…


… are supported by an M6 threaded bar, 1 metre long. I don't want to cut the bar, since I'm full of M6 threaded scraps (none of them long enough) and I'm too lazy to screw and unscrew a bolt for almost 50 cm of M6 (50 cm means 500 turns).
The split nut is below the chrome bars: almost invisible, but really useful.

Here are the rollers:



I made them some years ago, with scraps of PVC pipe, the thick one we use for sewage (but the scraps were undercuts, still unused!!!) mounted on L brackets with an MDF hub.
Generally I don't use all the rollers together, but now I have to fix a garden lamp made with long pieces of polystyrene artificial glass, in Italy branded as "Poliver", which is very flexible… until it breaks suddenly. Of course it is pretty expensive, too, and uneasy to cut (I cut it with the angle grinder and a thin disk, because it gives less vibrations than the jig saw, but it's a hard job).
So I made all this setup to drill 6 small holes without the risk to break something and have to make supplemental work…

 

[TOOLMASTER]

Turned an old tripod into some collapsable walking sticks.

(aluminum plugs for both ends)


rubber grips and tips on the way

............
finished

 

[Rapscallion]

Dushane that's real nice engraving work. I'm a member of a hand engravers forum (I critique more than I engrave, I sometimes make tools for engravers) and your style looks quite nice and your shading is good. Keep it up.

Cathead, I like your traveling steady. looks very labour intensive.

Below is my project of the last few days. It's a 2nd shafts for the gears in the headstock of an old Colchester Triumph lathe that I'm repairing for a friend.
The work was done in his workshop as he is far better equipped for that type of thing than I am.

After the turning work I milled the woodruff keyways and oil grooves on a Bridgeport Interact series II.
Now all that's left to do is reline the shafts bushes make some new woodruff keys and reassemble the headstock.
That should take another few days. (I'm slow ok!)

 

[Snugrat]

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Great idea. I will have to try that !!! Snugrat