2013 POTD Thread Archive

[Dave Smith]

on a different topic, BTW, I'm looking at the steel table someone posted 1 or 2 replies back. Table with casters. So these wheels can be raised and lowered?[/QUOTE]


They can be locked from rolling but not raised--Looks like anyway--

 

[Charley Davidson]

Fabricated this frame and installed the sign into it last night 3'X24'

 

[Old Iron]

Nice job Charley.

Paul

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Bench tested a Hitachi WJ200-022SF 3hp 2.2kw VFD and a 2.5hp ISR Baldor 145T frame motor. Did the power test of the VFD. Then loaded up the Power Drive Next software and got it configured. Connected up the VFD via USB and set all the VFD parameters. Man is that a nice setup. Fo rthos folks that have trouble saving the parameters - right click on the drive in the device view and save to inverter. It writes the settings to the NV ram. This is really a nice family of VFDs. I added a 100V series 1hp model to my 618 lathe last month. It will be configured to brive both Atlas lathes - 618 and 12" Craftsman Commercial.

I want to get the VFDs to work with modbus as well and understand that. Eventually I may add one to the CNC.

This Baldor motor and 3hp VFD is going on a RF30. I am deciding now how i want the switches to look when I am done. I am mounting a remote MiniIO panel with potentiometer so I can enclose the VFD. Planning to mount it in the base of the machine I think in an enclosure there. That or mount an enclosure on the back.

 

[Lignin]

May sound boring (excuse the pun!), but I spent the afternoon clearing the workshop up properly.
A tidy shop -> good work, and safer too.
Back to the fun stuff tomorrow :thumbsup:

 

[markknx]

Some tooling organization

How do you get the tools to stay in there horizontily.

 

[epanzella]

I needed a milling capability and wanted to be able to use my old lantern style tooling. I cut and welded some 3/4 plate into a "C" and then welded it to a cheap ($9) CDCO BXA holder. It has a 1-1/2 inch capacity for milling and tooling. Crude but it works pretty good.

hgfd

 

[Canuck]

Not a big deal for most of you but I managed to bore a paintball barrel to fit a ball-sizing sleeve today using my SB 9A...

 

[Goat Driver]

A whole bunch of neat ideas and projects going on with you guys. I've read the whole thread and enjoyed seeing all the different "projects".

I do not have a lathe yet, but I am saving up for a Grizzly G4002 and some tooling. I do have a couple of welders, a small brake, a floor bender, tubing roller, and lots of other hand tools, etc....

Here's my POTD contribution for today...

A hay cutter skid plate for my neighbor, it was almost worn completely off...welded some 1/8" plate in the center and on the sides and shaped it with a little heat from the Oxy/propane torch and the makita grinder. Welding done with mig flux core. Sorry these are the only 2 pics that I took.

 

[Brain Coral]

Hello all,

I had been restoring an old cone head lathe recently and had to replace both tumbler reverse gears as well as the spindle gear and the drive gear. I brought my old gears in to have them measured and ordered from Boston Gear.

Here's what they looked like upon arrival...



They still had to be faced, bored, two of them bronze bushed and re-bored, and two of them keyed. All I had to work with was the old lathe with a worn out 3-jaw chuck and no power feed of any kind. It was recommended to me that I should make a " pot chuck " to mount the gears in so that the bores were concentric to the gear circumference. I had a large peice of brass round and decided to make it out of that.

Here's the " pot chuck " in the making....







Tumbler gear having bronze bush pressed in by the tailstock...



Same gear after facing and re-boring...



Tumbler gears finished with freshly turned spindles...



Spindle gear being bored then keyed on the lathe with the carriage...







New gear train.... runs like a champ....



Here's what the old gears looked like.... :shocked:



Cheers....

Brian