2016 POTD Thread Archive

[Techie1961]

I really dig the stone walls man, that's neat.

Thanks! It does make it a little less like any others out there.

Love the look of the shop. You should be doing vintage repairs out of that shop. LOL

Mark

Thanks! Bring em on over. LOL

That looks like a great shop, congrats on getting it up and running.

Thank you. It's been a long time coming and a ton of work.

Great shop, Techie. I can only dream of so many square feet.

Yeah me too. I had the dream of doing this when we bought the place 5 years ago and finally was able to.

That's a great space.

The stone walls and beams give it great ambiance. I'd be hanging around out there even if I didn't have anything to do.

Hopefully you're insulated, heated and weather tight.....

I kind of find myself doing that and thanks for the compliment. It's been a lot of work and did get it insulated pretty good. There are still a few leaks where the stone wall has some cracks but I have been filling them as I find them. I have a little electric plug in heater that seems to be keeping it comfy.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

started making an ER25 collet chuck for my Atlas 618 out of hex stock. That way I can also use it to mill flats

 

[johnnyc14]

I have to say tho, I don't like how you are gripping the bar on the edge of the jaws, you have plenty of room to skooch that thing over into the middle and still set the 123s closer to the vise

Point taken but the set up is for pictures only

 

[hman]

John -
Very nicely done and very nicely documented!

 

[doogledee]

I finally put a good bench in to sit my bench top lathe on
Also added some lights and made some chips


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[T Bredehoft]

Waw, after that pallet/sine plate set up, I feel like I didn't do much.

Having said that, I spent most of the day whittling on a cut off tool holder to hold the tool upside down in front of the work.

I started with a piece of half hard 4140, roughly RC 35, more or less. The piece I had had been 1 1/8 by 2 by 6, I had prviously cut it down to 3" long, used the cut offs for other stuff. Durring the last three days I cut off a piece 1 1/8 by 3/4 by 3, with my slitting saw, Half an inch deep down one side and back the other. I also had a small supply of some oddball cut off tools, marked NAMCO-76, M-3. They are concave on the sides, and the edges are tapered 12.5º. I cut a slot in the side to hold the cut off tool itself, and put in two cap screws to clamp it in place. Here's a picture of the base unit.


The 3/8 boss on the other side/back fits into a tool slot in my (shop made) four tool holder.

The whole thing assembled in the four tool holder looks like this.


From the back of the lathe it's this....note the upside down tool....



And the proof of the pudding. Smooth as silk... well, anyway, far better than the normal cut off.



The chips are falling into the chip pan, not piling up in the cut. It cuts the hot rolled 4140 smoother than aluminum, not faster, but smoother.

 

[markknx]

Tom I might have to try this. I've thought about making a backside parting tool. but this would work just as good I would guess, and seems like it would be less work.

Mark

 

[Mark_f]

I needed to drill some holes at an angle and was struggling to find a way to hold the part securely. I made a vise pallet some time ago that allows mounting parts at an angle but I had no easy way of clamping these parts to the pallet. Here is the pallet and some of the clamps I have used in the past. It can be mounted in the vise in either direction. When I made it I only had a 4” vise so I wish I had made it larger now.











I have a small drill press vise that can be used for light milling and I wanted to be able to attach it to the pallet in both directions so I came up with these mounting solutions.

I remove one of the 3 bolts holding the flat plate to the round part and installed a stud on its place.





I made up some sleeve/spacers to hold the small vise to the pallet.




















To mount the vise in the other direction I made up a cross brace to go under the pallet and used a couple of old big/block Chevy rod bolts as fasteners. Then I mad up some more spacer/sleeves.


























It’s amazing how I can blow a whole day making tools to complete a 30 minute drilling job but these tools will come in handy in the future I’m sure.

I am fascinated by that pretty blue vise. I like it . what kind is it? I could do a lot with one of those on my small Burke mill.

 

[johnnyc14]

I am fascinated by that pretty blue vise. I like it . what kind is it? I could do a lot with one of those on my small Burke mill.

It is a very versatile little vise and very well made. It made by Groz.

 

[T Bredehoft]

Tom I might have to try this.

Mark, be very careful not to overload a chuck which is screwed onto the spindle. I found there might be a problem.