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Okay, DaveH. You asked for machining projects.
Here are a few of the things I have on the go. They kind of got stalled while I built the 7 1/2" rotary table so I could mill some curved slots for these. Then summer happened and I haven't got the itch yet to dive back in.
On the left is a die filer I'm building. It uses a bronze scotch yoke for the oscillations. The two pieces of angle iron are for the table and its mounting bracket. In the meantime, I picked up the Lewis shaper, so I trued the table and bracket on it. I really like the finish a shaper gives.
The big thingy on the right is the R8 spindle for my tool grinder. The lever on the base allows the spindle to tilt away from the wheel for the return to start position, then lock back into place for the next pass. Probably waiting for the snow to fly to really get that going again.
The little L-shaped piece in the front is the mounting arm for a 'Camjack Knurler' I'm designing. That's the only hardware so far, but the drawings are progressing, when I remember to work on it.
Quite often, working on a project suggests another tool I could make to help with the current one. Off we go! Or you guys post something that's just too enticing to ignore. I may have to build some kind of steam engine real soon if you guys don't cut it out.
Here are a few of the things I have on the go. They kind of got stalled while I built the 7 1/2" rotary table so I could mill some curved slots for these. Then summer happened and I haven't got the itch yet to dive back in.
On the left is a die filer I'm building. It uses a bronze scotch yoke for the oscillations. The two pieces of angle iron are for the table and its mounting bracket. In the meantime, I picked up the Lewis shaper, so I trued the table and bracket on it. I really like the finish a shaper gives.
The big thingy on the right is the R8 spindle for my tool grinder. The lever on the base allows the spindle to tilt away from the wheel for the return to start position, then lock back into place for the next pass. Probably waiting for the snow to fly to really get that going again.
The little L-shaped piece in the front is the mounting arm for a 'Camjack Knurler' I'm designing. That's the only hardware so far, but the drawings are progressing, when I remember to work on it.
Quite often, working on a project suggests another tool I could make to help with the current one. Off we go! Or you guys post something that's just too enticing to ignore. I may have to build some kind of steam engine real soon if you guys don't cut it out.
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