2013 POTD Thread Archive

[TOOLMASTER]

LOL:roflmao:

 

[savarin]

My QCTP arrived from http://www.ctctools.biz/servlet/StoreFront in Hong Kong in 7 days from ordering. Most impressed.
A huge chunk of steel I thought.
As I only have 6mm square bits at present and didnt want to wait and alter the top slide as most have done so I knocked up a new steel top screw and handle.
I recessed the nut so it clamps at its edge rather than its centre.


A small spacer at the bottom to ensure alignment



I was rather pleased with the tapered ally knob. The rounded end I sort of step turned to rough shape then finished with a magicut file.



I only had a 2" dia lump of steel so a whole bucket of chips ensued from this exercise.

 

[cityhick]

Im only a couple months into this whole hobby machinist thing and am pretty much self teaching. I had a chunk of aluminum laying around so I made up this little pulley. It wasn't made for anything I just wanted to try and make one. I am having a blast making useless items just to get familiar with the lathe and such.
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[Maxx]

Did this yesterday, I made a new pivot spindle for the idler arm on my JD 7720.
New part is $100 just need to weld and paint.

The idler arm was wallowed out so I brazed it and ran the boring head down it and pressed in 2 new bushings.
$12 in bushings fixed up a $135 part.

 

[Maxx]

Today i ran 1/2 PVC pipe along the perimeter of my barn "Teeing" off every 8 feet so I could have ready available air at my machinery and not taking the risk of tripping over the hose running on the floor. It worked well, put 2 regulators, one on hose reel for auto and another for machine air for tools.

Pmedic828,
pvc is not a good idea for air. pvc can shatter and throw shrapnel . I worked with a guy that ended up losing eyesight in both eyes while wearing safety glasses .

Mike

I agree, PVC is a bad idea.
Not sure about your air needs but around here I won't go any smaller than 3/4".
1/2" wouldn't feed my 3/4 and 1" air wrenches to full torque.

 

[ML_Woy]

Im only a couple months into this whole hobby machinist thing and am pretty much self teaching. I had a chunk of aluminum laying around so I made up this little pulley. It wasn't made for anything I just wanted to try and make one. I am having a blast making useless items just to get familiar with the lathe and such.
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Yes, like the rest of us you will find great satisfaction in spending thousands of dollars to make $10.00 items you can purchase at Lowes. BUT WHAT A SATISFACTION OF SAYING "I BUILT IT!" and having your friends say, every time they great you, "AND WHAT HAVE YOU MADE LATELY?"

M.L.Woy

 

[Analias]

Yes, like the rest of us you will find great satisfaction in spending thousands of dollars to make $10.00 items you can purchase at Lowes. BUT WHAT A SATISFACTION OF SAYING "I BUILT IT!" and having your friends say, every time they great you, "AND WHAT HAVE YOU MADE LATELY?"

M.L.Woy

Hee hee - My wife told me there are things I shouldn't quote to her. This message being one of those. :-D



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[Ray C]

My wife started-in on this one time and I came back with "Well maybe you don't need to spend 40 bucks on a tube of lipstick -which has no return on investment at all". Things got real quite after that -and still are a couple years later. -Guess I told her :LOL:...


Ray

Hee hee - My wife told me there are things I shouldn't quote to her. This message being one of those. :-D



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[stern]

My wife started-in on this one time and I came back with "Well maybe you don't need to spend 40 bucks on a tube of lipstick -which has no return on investment at all". Things got real quite after that -and still are a couple years later. -Guess I told her :LOL:...


Ray

LOL OH NO, YOU DIDNT!!! . Well, you KNOW your going to pay for that one lol Usually they let it sit a few years then BLAM!!! right out of the blue

 

[george wilson]

I LIKE my wife to wear lipstick!! I'm a real sucker for it.

Today,among other things,I started making an 18th. C. pump drill for a friend in the museum. The worst thing is cutting the pesky tapered thread on the nose. I have no taper attachment for the Hardinge. Can't remember hold I did it many years ago. I just crank back the cross feed while threading. Then,I use a needle file to smooth the threads. I remembered I have threading combs when I came in tonight. I will use the 20 thd one tomorrow to smooth over the threads. Then,the threads are slit so that when the knurled nut is tightened on the tapered threads,the 1/8" shank spade drill (I make those,too) will be tightened. I used to make a lot of those.

One Summer I made 6 of those before going to a flea market. I let them stick up out of my back pack while going around the market. I sold every one of those. Paid for the trip and stuff I purchased. By now,I've forgotten how I used to make certain things on the blasted things,though.