Please post pictures of your projects

There seems to be a lack of sufficient pictures of projects posted by members of the forum. Hey! Let's see your work!!

There seems to be a lack of interest and response in them so the efforts are futile.

I don't have any "real projects" going on right now.
Mainly repairs to farm equipment or cleaning up my tools/tooling.
What I have been doing lately is so small of a job it just gets posted in the Project of the Day thread.

I do have a DRO build for my lathe but I won't post it till I am further along.
It's harvest time so I don't get much "fun" stuff done after I come in from the fields.

I was going to post in the what you did today thread but I'll throw them in here. I am very green with my lathe or any machining for that matter. I made up a 9/16ths dimple die just to "play around on the lathe" plus now I can try to dimple some sheet metal.
Mike

Charley Davidson said:

There seems to be a lack of interest and response in them so the efforts are futile.

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I love seeing the pics! But the "Like" button is no longer on the iPad, so it is hard to know I visited hah hah



Bernie

cityhick said:

I was going to post in the what you did today thread but I'll throw them in here. I am very green with my lathe or any machining for that matter. I made up a 9/16ths dimple die just to "play around on the lathe" plus now I can try to dimple some sheet metal.
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OK then, a comment. First off I'll say if you're green I don't know what color I am anymore! Those pieces look store bought to me. Great job.

To show you how green I really am, what does one do with tools to "dimple" sheet metal? What purpose do they serve?

The finish is fantastic. Thanks for posting.

Dimpled sheet metal can be used to stiffen sheet metal for roll cage gussets or traction for trucks steps etc.

I make a line of products for harmonica players. My "signature line" is custom microphones. This one is made from burl maple with black stone chip inlay. The rear end of the mic is a volume control. The brass grill starts out as round bar. Many of my other products require the lathe and milling machine as well.



/Greg
http://www.BlowsMeAway.com

Very neat work!! Keep those pictures coming. As moderator,I'm keeping out of this thread. We want member's work.

This is my latest project.
I purchased a used German Equatorial telescope EQ6 Pro mount to use permanently on the pier in the observatory. My original mount, HEQ5 Pro, will now be the portable mount. The new mount has a different mounting system so I had to make a new mounting plate. In looking things over, I made an adapter to use my original one and make the transition from the EQ6 Pro to the pier.

The pictures show the different bases on the EQ6 Pro on the left and HEQ5 Pro on the right. My original mounting plate and then the new adapter and lastly the new sitting on the old one. I have not taken a picture of the bolts and holes to attach the two together as it is now mounted on the pier. It was a quickee, less than 2 hrs from start to finish. The polar pin is just pressed in.

Only problem was the apron control lever on the lathe became slack and I had to fix that to finish the job. The little grub screw that holds the lever assembly to the apron was not tight enough and had backed out. Spitting out the detent ball etc. Took a bit of fiddling to get it all back together.
Pierre