2018 POTD Thread Archive

Since my shop time is nil, my project is helping my wife ,,,aka Grammy,,, by entertaining our gran baby . I knew I'd get her up with me in my bed if I had something she liked. At times I was her dolly babysitter and Dr too. But while watching YouTube I looked up cartoons and there's ole woody woodpecker , Yosemite Sam , Mickey and the road runner too. So ole pop pop made a list under Sophias name she loves them , she spent all afternoon Sunday and evening wanted to sleep with pop pop . God I love this bundle of life , this morning pop can we watch woody , of course I said no YUPP ok . She likes pops guns and trophys , first lessen do not touch . More to come , next lessen salute the flag and sing. If schools won't teach patriotism pop will , and treat others like you want to be treated. Guess being a parent don't end. For now cartoons win.
 
Fitted an old face plate to my lathe. I recently picked up a 6" face plate cheap at a garage sale for the Logan. Threads were correct for the spindle,
but when I spun it on, they bottomed out before it went on completely. Made a spacer for the spindle, threaded the plate on backwards and
machined some more relief into the threads. Finished up by taking a light facing pass to square the surface up and clean up the dings and
rust. Good as new.

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Haven't been around the forum much lately. However, work continues in the shop. Made a pair of chess sets for my dad and brother using 1018 steel tube. Gun bluing did the trick for the "black" pieces. A little oil based finish over the top to resist smudges.

 
Now that is an interesting and unusual project. I like it. Nice work!
 
Made four thimble nuts for a outboard spider I recently built. The material used was some mystery bronze.

Knurled at 485 rpm and feed rate was .014/rev. Coarse knurl .
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Drilled and power tapped using the fwd/rev jog feature.
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Short video of the power tapping.

Profiled and parted, rinse and repeat 3 more times.
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Small chamfers where cut prior to parting.
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The fit.
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All done.
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Thanks for looking.

Paco
 
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I realized with all the action the mill has been getting I'd been ignoring the mistress lately so... I made a knob for the speeder wrench.

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You probably can't tell but this whole thing (the wrench including) is made kinda sloppily and out of wrong material for the job. I'm calling this a rough proof of concept to prove to myself that if I had to make one to save my life I probably could but mostly that if I had several hrs to kill I can make all sorts of useless stuff :grin:
 
Cleaned up in front of shop today(81 degrees f..)getting ready to start on a 8ft dual grate cooker.cleaned and fired up my electrolysis bath.disassembled atlas 618..started cleaning parts.forgot how small a 618 is after using my Sheldon 11" for so long..sometimes small is a good thing.
 
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