Patio's projects

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Re: Patio's projects

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All that time to make a tool to fix an old flashlight, that's just crazy.
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Liveaboard, yeh, your not crazy either. ;)

Here are a couple of screws I made for the stops on the tracer. I started with a 8mm class 10.9 grade bolt. It was not a fully threaded bolt. I cut the head off, spun it around in the collet, picked up the existing threads and cut the threads just longer than what was needed. Put the bolt in a collet block and made the flats with the same distance from the treads. Back the the lathe, and shortened both ends to proper length.
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Top one is new, bottom it original. The little divet, is from a wrong move, while picking up the threads.
This is the device it mounts in.
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A while back, I bought a Hemingway, Mini Rotary Broach kit. It is capable of broaching an 8mm hex. The kit arrived, with the box split opened and material missing. I can say, the customer service at Hemingway is outstanding! They sent out the missing material, right away. I started to make the parts today. We will see how it goes.
Here are the first two finished parts.
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Impressive!
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Neanderman, thanks!

Tonight progress. All the counter bores are done and the end is threaded 20mm X .5.
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The side facing out is not finished yet. It will get faced off once the inside parts are installed.
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20x.5; that's a really fine thread.
Nice looking work, as usual.
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Did some painting this weekend, so I painted the Steady Rest, that I rebuilt to fit the Cazeneuve lathe. I used a little JB Weld to mold the bottom plate to the upper steady.
You can see that here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcWJYFvSkQ
This is not a show job, more of a scuff and paint. It looks a lot better than before, and I am happy with it. Here is a picture.
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Pat,

I am not sure they use JB Weld on the F15E Eagles but I like the video.
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LOL oops! Thanks for the heads up on the bad link. It is kind of a neat video though.
I tried to link this one, so people could see where I had installed a new base onto the Steady rest.
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About midway down the page, is the proper place to look.
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This is a "Hey Buddy!" job I finished.
I have a cousin in Arkansas that bought himself an old wood Jointer. The part that sets the angle for the fence had been repaired by a PO. The part did not survive the trip home. He has been a machinist for many years and is retired now. He does not have any desire to own metal working machines any more, but seems to be getting into wood working. A while back he offered me some tooling for free, and a bought a couple of tools he had for sale, also. He recently contacted me about making this for him, and we worked out a trade for one of the other tools he had for sale. I nice 8" Mititoyo digital caliper. :)
He really only need a very simple version of the part to make it work and I think that is all he was expecting. For me it was as much as a chance to learn by doing, on the rotary table. It took a bit to figure out the real dimensions of the part. A couple of conversations with Harold helped. It took me three times to get the part right. I messed up right off the bat when I was using the table saw to remove some extra material. The blade cut too far into the part. I went ahead and made the part anyway, using it to make sure my dimensions and set ups where going to work as planned. The second one, I messed up while orientating the part on the pallet. The third one was not perfect, but I figured it would work for him.
Here are some pictures from the process of making the part.
The drawing.
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Making of the pallet. So I could flip the part and machine the bottom side, without loosing locations.
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Pallet is made with it's locating pin at the center of the rotary table. This is actually the third and final part that is in this picture.
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This is the second part, sitting on the pallet, while doing some layout with a point in the mill spindle. I had trimmed off too much of the material for the part to fit anymore.
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Here I am using the failed first part to locate the material of the third part onto the pallet, making sure it is on properly this time.
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Go to next post to see the results! :)
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Continued from above!

This is the final part, in it's rough in state. The mistakes that I made are more obvious here, than in the finished product.
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Here it is, all done, with the original for comparisons.
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My cousin says it worked perfectly. Here are a couple of pictures he sent me of it installed on the jointer.
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Still making a little progress on the rotary broach and bike projects, too.
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Very nice!
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