2016 POTD Thread Archive

[ebgb68]

Spent the day in the shop yesterday only thing that went right was making this barrel vise .


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[Franko]

It is a good day when something goes right.

 

[chevydyl]

So what went wrong then?

 

[chevydyl]

Make your own bar.... lots of different ways, if you have a mill it's much easier. I've made both internal and external indexable threading tools on the mill, they used carbide lay down threading inserts. I also made indexable tool holders for the tool post. You could easily make a beefy indexable boring bar....

 

[davidh]

cut, strip, fasten, cut, strip, fasten. its coming, slow but sure. tuff work for a one eye'd old guy. . . .

 

[Reeltor]

Moved the dividing head onto the mill. Drilled and tapped for 2 setscrews to lock the gear to the arbor. Need to convert mill to horizontal mode. Gear will be 4DP, 20 teeth.

 

[chevydyl]

that looks like a pretty hefty gear blank, what are the specs on diameter and width? (im not a gear guy)

 

[JimDawson]

Not really the project of the day, more like the project of the last 4 days. I needed to get my CNC software compatible with Win7 - 10 so I started from scratch on Friday and did a complete rewrite in .net, while simultaneously learning a new programming language. Nothing like a project to learn something new. Four days of marathon programming and about 10,000 lines of code later it's ready to put on a machine and see what doesn't work. It works on the desktop, but I expect a few days of debug on the machine. I'm going to test it on Alloy's Shizouka AN6 that is sitting in my shop and has Win8 installed.

 

[chevydyl]

that's awesome Jim

 

[ebgb68]

So what went wrong then?

I swear I burn up more bits and tools on the milling machine . Part of it is just learning I guess just need to buy them in pairs so projects don't grind to a halt .
Still a bad day in the shop beats a good day at work !

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