POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[Braeden P]

I made a brass tag for my southbend. It’s in memory of the man I got the mill, bandsaw, southbend, pantograph, tool and cutter grinder and tons of tooling. Everything I used on this project except for the pin vise and the coping saw I got from him. I started with a sheet of brass and traced out a tag. Cut it with a coping saw then filed it. Marked the holes and used a pin vise to drill them. I set up the pantograph and cut the letters. Painted the letters, sanded off the excess paint then polished it to a mirror finish. I attached it to the lathe with two copper rivets.

 

[woodchucker]

Man, I love those Vidmars.. wish I had space, but I guess if I had those, I would make space. I would just move the wife out to the shed...

 

[woodchucker]

I made a brass tag for my southbend. It’s in memory of the man I got the mill, bandsaw, southbend, pantograph, tool and cutter grinder and tons of tooling. Everything except for the pin vise and the coping saw I got from him. I started with a sheet of brass and traced out a tag. Cut it with a coping saw then filed it. Marked the holes and used a pin vise to drill them. I set up the pantograph and cut the letters. Painted the letters, sanded off the excess paint then polished it to a mirror finish. I attached it to the lathe with two copper rivets.

Nice work Braeden. And nice to remember and honor him in that way.

 

[mmcmdl]

Man, I love those Vidmars.. wish I had space, but I guess if I had those, I would make space. I would just move the wife out to the shed...

I did that long before the Vidmars arrived !

 

[ChazzC]

I did that long before the Vidmars arrived !

That's why you still have the house down the road!

 

[rabler]

I have in the past Jeff but I'm past it at this point ...........................................until the next time .

You are just cleaning up too well, creating a vacuum that sucks in more tools. Leave some dirt, a few obstacles, etc in the way after moving something out so it doesn't create a new hole begging to be filled with some tool.

 

[RandallsRaceShop]

Found some time to come out and wrap up the toe clamps I started the other day.

 

[twhite]

As my wife and here friend spent the weekend painting our bathroom. I hid out in the Bat Cave. I mounted my splash guard on my lathe did a bunch of sorting. Then cleaned my work bench off.

I also decided it was time to blacken my tool post and holders.

Cutting oil is my blood.

 

[f350ca]

Have a thing for old piston pumps, remind me of a shaper chugging away. I use one, a Beatty, direct drive, as in no belts, motor mounts vertically with a worm drive.
Started out to just get this pump working to water the garden from the pond, then decided to give it a good cleaning and powder coat, a backwoods restoration. Its a Duro. Have no prior knowledge of its past, apparently belonged to my neighbours father.




Started breaking it down and found this.





I've never seen so much corrosion.
Any idea what could do this, live in a cold climate so it couldn't have been left full of water, it would have cracked.
Not sure what to do.
It's corroded through between the suction and pressure side in the top casting. Could probably sand blast and bronze in the hole.


Then there's the bore, eaten through, guess it could be sleeved.



Already have a working pump, but this ones cool, but have a myriad of other things that need finished and started. lol
If I was to sleeve it, with Locktite sleeve retainer would heating it to powder coat at 400F bugger the Locktite?

Greg

 

[tq60]

Continued with backhoe repair project.

This is a very old attachment for very old Bobcat, 825.

The metal looks like a foam ice chest, while digging in hard pan it snapped, so making some doubler plates to strengthen the sides.

Our local scrap yard no longer allows picking, so we got some plate remnant stock, 200 bucks worth, inflation sucks.

Made come cardboard patterns and was able to get 2 good-sized doubters for the main area with smaller parts we will use in another spot.

Used some aluminum scraps to make a final fit template, 2 identical pieces, we measured and made center holes for the pins, then used hole saw and boring bar to get good fit on the "master" hole, used a chassis punch on the other, fit is good.

A friend plasma cut the steel to get the doublers, we clamped together and drilled 1/2 holes through them to keep in alignment, these will be used to secure before welding.

Used the mill to straighten the plasma cut edges and make both the same size.

Had a call out for our fire dispatch center, so we had to stop. More to come next week.

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