2014 POTD Thread Archive

[omni_dilletante]

This is my first true project. Everything up to this point has been practice, but these will be going into my mill.

My Hardinge UM came with a couple of broken bolts. These lock the table rotation.

Did my best to take measurements off the existing bolts. Used 1146 and feel pretty good about getting the dimensions within 0.001.



They appear to fit and the table does not rotate, so I am declaring this a success.

 

[nightowl499]

This is my first true project. Everything up to this point has been practice, but these will be going into my mill.

My Hardinge UM came with a couple of broken bolts. These lock the table rotation.

Did my best to take measurements off the existing bolts. Used 1146 and feel pretty good about getting the dimensions within 0.001.



They appear to fit and the table does not rotate, so I am declaring this a success.

Nice job !!

 

[Vince_O]

Well guys looks like its going to be engs and trannys for me this winter. 2 friends need tranny work on their tractors before we start back to mowing season. But for me, 3 engs and 1 swap out.

The first is on my welder. I was making a hydro tank and I keep the welder outside and run my leads into the shop. I heard a funny noise and on my way to shut it off, it threw a rod and made for some great positive crankcase ventalation! What sucks is that the crank and bearing plate are bad. I built this eng around 150 hrs ago and its been running great. I opened it up to find that a 2.50 bolt did around 1500.00 in damage.







So short block is ordered and will be here soon. Next project is my 1969 cub cadet 106. Built this eng about 10yrs ago and one of the main bearings is going out. I had a guy come and pick up some frames from me a few weeks back and he told me he bought out a dealer and had new short blocks. So I bought one! Danny and I tore this one down last night.





I have one more short block on the floor for a tractor. Its going in my oldest sons tractor, and his will be put in our mowing tractor. I forsee some long winter days next to the wood stove in the shop.

 

[davidh]

it warms my heart seeing someone young becoming a "motorhead" it does not get any better than that.

 

[melsdad]

What engine driven welder do you have? I would love to have an Lincoln SA200 someday. I think that would be a cool restoration project.

 

[melsdad]

I did a gunsmithing job this week for one of my daughter's archery coaches. He bought a remington 700 SPS Tactical in .308. The rifle came with a hinged floor plate and he wanted to be able to use magazines. He bought a Badger Ordnance bottom metal assembly which is very high quality.

First I needed to weld up and machine a fixture to hold the stock for machining. It was a fun project and I learned alot along the way. The biggest problem I had was the fact that the rubber on the overmolded stock did not machine well. It just kind of pushed out of the way. In the end I was happy with how it turned out and the customer was even happier!

 

[cathead]

Lathe handle POTD and a very handy tip for the mill

I didn't know my Monarch was missing a handle until someone pointed it out
some months back when I posted a photo on The Hobby Machinist. The handle
was made with mild steel in a weldment after machining the parts and turning a
ball.

Here's a photo of the handle and also another photo of my handy mill tip.
If you install a mill vice handle almost vertically in the mill the drawbar
can be cinched up or loosened quite quickly. The photo should make it clear. Also
I use a short step stool for handy reaching.

 

[Hamstn]

Needed more shelving for my bins that I store larger size bolts in. 1" angle for cross shelves and 1" tube for legs.

 

[Vince_O]

Its a Ranger 8. I bought it about 5 years back with a broken block. I rebuilt it and it has about 150 hrs on it. Ive built many of these engs, guess this one just wanted to be differant. Took the oil pan from the welder, block from a crapsman, and the heads from a low hr eng that had something wrong with it, can remember. New rods pistons and rings, the bor was only .002 out of round, , close, but still in spec.

 

[zmotorsports]

Its a Ranger 8. I bought it about 5 years back with a broken block. I rebuilt it and it has about 150 hrs on it. Ive built many of these engs, guess this one just wanted to be differant. Took the oil pan from the welder, block from a crapsman, and the heads from a low hr eng that had something wrong with it, can remember. New rods pistons and rings, the bor was only .002 out of round, , close, but still in spec.

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Nice job. I tend to use my Handy motorcycle lift as an extra table at times as well. Multi-purposing at its finest.

Mike.