What did you do today (2015)

[Nigel McBurney 1Participant @nigelmcburney1]

The 1961 TD Greeves Scottish looks nice,I bought one from new,best trials bike I had,

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, today, with consent from my boss, I brought home a small offcut of box section.

After marking with a square and scriber I cut it in two across the long sides and then reduced the width of the piece I wanted, to 135mm using just one thin cutting disc (and it wasn't a new disc) The piece is destined to be part of a display stand for my Yankee 1005 drill press.

Regards Nick.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Scored a nice, almost unused, set of Sutton brand UNF taps and dies and holders from 1/4 to 1", at a garage sale for $25. Retail price on the net runs from $900 to $1200. Nice one! They must be made of pure gold at that price.

I passed on the mini lathe for $300 though. The old Drummond will do me.

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[Bill PudneyParticipant @billpudney37759]

Posted by Raymond Sanderson 2 on 14/08/2015 09:22:22:

I'm in Western Sydney where abouts are you if you don't mind me asking?

I'm in sunny (usually) Adelaide.

Today was flying model aeroplanes. Tried one of the venturies on my motor and it worked well. Had a good couple of flights.

Now to watch the All Blacks vs Wallabies

cheers

Bill

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

Finished off my changewheel to belt drive conversion ( JS design) on my lathe. Well worth it for the noise reduction.

[Michael Cox 1Participant @michaelcox1]

I finished my clamp-on soft jaw project. Full details are given here:

http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/soft-jaws.html

Mike

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Not today Actually but a couple of days ago. A couple of years back I bought a cheap 80mm 3 jaw self centring chuck at the 1000 engine rally in Cheshire, thinking it would come in handy. It sat taking up space for a long time until i decided to make a mandrel fro it so that I could use it on my cylindrical grinder. I first of all made a mandrel to fit the nose of the Myford MG 12 and I carefully machined the register to fit the chuck.Once finished I drilled the three holes for the mounting screws and fitted the chuck. I put the chuck and mandrel in the grinder and left it at that waiting for a job to come up.

A few days later I was showing somebody the grinder and I switched on the machine and ran the work motor and I could see something was badly wrong with the set up because the chuck was visibly wobbling. I checked the mandrel and I thought that this was causing the trouble so I thought I would make another but before I did so I put a piece of 1" steel in the chuck on the lathe and ran a cut to true it up. I then clamped the three jaw to the steel and imagine my surprise when I saw this.

It just goes to show that cheap tools aren't always a good buy. I have since ordered a new Pratt Burnerd Precision chuck and a cheaper 4 jaw chuck that I will make new mandrels for so that I can use them on the grinder.

If the embed link doesn't work I will post a link to youtube.

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[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Try this link.

 

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[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

In another thread last week the question of stopping the two outer parts of a 3 point bender moving in the vice, I had a need to bend some 3mm steel today and simply used a Vee block and bit of bar in the mill vice to do the job. Turned out quite a good way to do it, the hard Vee block does leave a slight mark so if the surface matters or you have a lot to do worth making on block from aluminium or hardwood.

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[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Had two days at Elvington speed do and sorted some problems for another possible future project.

Becci Ellis 264 mph bike unfortunately she had a mishap on Saturday after a high speed run and broke her ankle.

Had to get my hands mucky and do a simple repair job for this competitor at home wish I'd stayed when I returned the repair as the wine was flowing then.

A street legal V10

Part of the Mad Max team have given him ideas for his combustion chamber after he saw my flash steamer burners running.

These unusual machines have been made by these people and the workmanship is of a high order.

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Just a few more unusual machines.

A V8 with two Hayabusa top ends and a R/R turbine powered motorcycle.

[clogsParticipant @clogs]

HI windy, wish I was there……

I remember the Brown bro's from Stevenage and Super Nero……Duxford before the planes got back in there…..

Santa-pod was OK, just to expensive…….

I guess the Hayabusa needed the turbo as it'd b a bit sluggish without…..hahaha……

all I could afford in the old days was 2 Ariel Arrow engines bolted together……

Clogs

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

Windy,cracking pictures, some interesting stuff there !.

[Bruce EdneyParticipant @bruceedney59949]

Jason – nice looking build – what is it?

[john carruthersParticipant @johncarruthers46255]

My first 'real' thread job. 2 off, 43.6mm x 36 tpi. 3mm thick x 3mm wide. Two rings to hold a set of telecompressor lenses in an Optec adaptive optics tube. Saves a bit of optical train hanging off the back of a 12" SCT (might even pass between the forks now )

One more to do this afternoon.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

There was an interesting photo in ME probably in the 90s, I think it was the editor that used a V block in the vice for bending something, and ended up splitting the V block.

Ian S C

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Posted by clogs on 17/08/2015 08:41:13:

HI windy, wish I was there……

I remember the Brown bro's from Stevenage and Super Nero……Duxford before the planes got back in there…..

Santa-pod was OK, just to expensive…….

I guess the Hayabusa needed the turbo as it'd b a bit sluggish without…..hahaha……

all I could afford in the old days was 2 Ariel Arrow engines bolted together……

Clogs

George Brown was my hero a lover of Vincents and was told his brother filed the cams to the profile they required.

A member of my side of the hobby when he was a young used any excuse to go to his shop to look at Nero.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Bruce its going to be a 2/3rd scale model of the Tidman organ engine that is currently being covered in the mag. Will be a full write up and drawings, probably early next year for those that can't fit a 12" flywheel on their machine, the 8" on this will fit a lot of peoples lathes or it could be done at 1/2 or 1/3rd scale.

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

A normally aspirated Hayabusa of Pete Williams same age as me did 202mph.

One of the Female helpers at the event was fascinated by the flash steamer Helen told me she always wanted to be an engineer and built a Stuart Steam engine at school her Dad helped her finish it.

Like most enthusiasts no matter what hobby or sport they like to pass their knowledge on to others so just ask if you want to know anything about their interests.

 

 

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[Bruce EdneyParticipant @bruceedney59949]

I like the look of it Jason – can't wait for the series – I have just started looking at the Metric plans of a 1" Minnie (Julius De Waal) and my mill is in pieces for CNC conversion – so many ideas so little time or money

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Dont you love them, people who say can you make this for me, OK, so you make it and present it and they say, 'Wheres the other one' No mention at any time that they wanted 2 of them!

The second one , as i worked, the tool slipped down and marked the mill table! uuuurrrr !

Clive

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[one for Neil]

I've just returned from an interesting evening at Macclesfield Astronomical Society, where Chris Heapy showed me his new '10 Micron' GM2000 telescope mount. … As yet untried [he is currently making various adapters for it] but it certainly looks the business, and the spec. is encouraging !!

MichaelG.

 

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[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Interesting idea. I'm surprised that a servo motor system can get accurate enough feedback from the sensors.

This is interesting – all made with a mini-lathe and benchtop mill. May have a go at a fabricated one myself.

My plan is to go for autoguiding, made the second gearbox, but now I need to decide on the electronics.

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 18/08/2015 23:04:43:

This is interesting – all made with a mini-lathe and benchtop mill.

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Indeed it is … and good to see some reasonably large wormwheels on it.

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Found a new item for my 'Dear Santa' letter !

FathomDrone

MichaelG.

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