What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

My cylinder hone came today. The edges look vicious, should I break it in somehow before using it in anger?

Neil

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

What type of hone did you buy?

 

If its one of the "brake cylinder" hones then I just use them as they come. Brush on some parafin to stop the stone clogging

 

Edited By JasonB on 27/05/2016 14:25:53

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

It appears identical to yours, Jason. I was going to use light oil, so the paraffin advice is timely. Also using teh drill instead of the lathe is surely a good idea to avoid grit o the bed!

Neil

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Why are some photos clickable (the pointer changes to a hand and clicking the photo opens them in a new tab) and some aren't?

The photos in this page aren't clickable but the "flame eater" ones are. Is that because some are inserted from albums and others through an external link?

More photo weirdness.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Ones that are hosted in an album on this forum are clickable and usually take you to a larger version. Those that are not are externally hosted by the likes of Photobucket in my case and I resize all that goes to PB at 640wide

Edited By JasonB on 27/05/2016 14:59:13

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

You can right click on a 'non clickable' one and choose view image.

Neil

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

The Hone, get some Honing oil,it is clear light oil that stops the stones clogging and disperses the sludge from the hone. My small tin has lasted years and is good for chisels and plane blades and knives too. I would not use normal oil as it will clog the stnnes and stop them cutting and make sure you traverse them at about 45 deg. on each stroke so you can see the finish as a, ' hatching'.

Clive

Edited By Clive Hartland on 27/05/2016 17:33:48

[Peter KroghParticipant @peterkrogh76576]

If a proper honing oil isn't to hand, kerosene or even WD-40 work well.

I used to get honing oil from the local auto machine shop; he'd sell me a pint for a beer….

Pete

[NJHParticipant @njh]

I honed the cylinder for my Scott engine very successfully in the bench drill. It is important to keep the hone moving and this is much easier to do in the drill and a rhythm is soon established. You will need to do something to avoid spraying honing oil all round your workshop and I found that this modified peach container worked very well!

Good Luck!

Norman

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Dang, I used to have that container for white spirit. I think it's gone

Thanks for the tips.

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Nip off to the shop – buy an "emergency" tub of peaches (which you will then have to eat with your cornflakes tomorrow) and, hey presto, honing can commence a little later!

N

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, I keep all my different sized Pop rivets in peach tubs.

That aside today I fitted my new switch into my Dremel, which came in the post in a small box, which is on top of the bigger box that the small box came in. The switch is approx. 45mm x 35mm x 25mm overall, the bigger box is 235mm x 185mm x 100mm.

The Dremel is now up and running again.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 27/05/2016 19:53:23

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The cat is no trouble – it's the labs that cause all my woes. The youngest has discovered that if she drops a ball at the top of the stairs she can play fetch on her own.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, today I also went to Warrington again, in my day job, to take another piece of kit we built in our workshop. It had to be there by 8 a.m. at the latest, it only got finished and loaded in a van by 4 p.m. yesterday. so I had to start work at around 3 am this morning. It was very misty on the M62 over the Pennines, especially over the summit when I went and even worse on my way back.

Regards Nick.

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Today i made a universal joint for the drive shaft of my 5" gauge petrol loco out of a cheap 3/8" drive socket set universal. Dismantled the socket universal, replaced the original 'spider' having offset holes with a new one from 10mm square mild steel cross-drilled in the same plane and tapped M4, drilled out the existing holes in the yokes to 6mm, chucked some M4 capscrews in the lathe, turned the heads down to 6mm diameter, shortened to suit, and reassembled as a 'proper' universal with the heads of the capscrews bearing on the holes in the yokes. Needs a bit of running in but works well. Will need to be well-lubed for long life, thinking of making rubber boot from bicycle tube, stuffed with grease and held in place with cable ties, crude but effective.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Well, as well as spending a goodly while honing parts of the next MEW to perfection, a tide of tidiness is creeping across my workshop. The 'electronics and assembly bench' is almost in order and a new dual socket with twin USB outlets fitted, to make charging things easier.

Next the lathe and drilling bench…

Neil

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Photo…photo…..photo

N

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Re: honing, the Japanese traditionally use water, not oil for lubricating their honing stones. The water clears the micro swarf from the surface of the stone more effectively than many of the (more viscous) oils we use and is easier to clean up afterwards.

One other big difference is the direction of cutting – Japanese saws are pulled towards the operator, rather then pushed as they are in the West.

Japanese woodworking is fascinating. Houses were traditionally made almost entirely of wood and there are dozens of different incredible joints for combining the various horizontal and vertical members.

Sorry for mentioning the Brown Stuff on here…

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Having missed one bee swarm last week I took another good one today, now hived and settling in and I will feed them sugar water tomorrow. This is some 5 weeks later than normal and shows how the weather has affected the bees this winter gone. I lost three hives this year caused by poor mating of Queens last Spring I am sure. Hives full of stores but no bees or Queen.

They are building up now as the swarm shows so i go down every afternoon to check. I am getting to old for all the athletics of swarm taking now as this one was 15 ft up a Holly tree and I had to cut my way into it.

6 comb nuclei are going for £155 to £ 250 this year depending on pedigree.

Clive

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Many years ago, when the Ford Zetec engine was first produced, I installed two very large camshaft lobe honing machines in Ford's engine plant in Swansea, Ford believed by cross hatching the lobes it would retain oil thus aiding lubrication, the hones were flooded with a paraffin type oil to flush away the debris.

Martin P

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Did a silly thing yesterday. I put an old file into the pickling tank (Sulphuric acid) and forgot about it for 20 hours or so. I pulled it out, and now it is a very smooth file!!
BobH

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Thank you Hopper for your kind advice on scraping the ways of my lathe saddle, much appreciated. I did use the wrong term "lapping" and meant to describe adding a surface of abrasive paper onto double sided tape. However I tried this for a few minutes and decided against it, it just didn't feel right. So I have reverted to bluing and scraping the saddle vee.

Regarding the knurling I've done. I think some thinner knurls might do the trick in lowering the forces exerted on the lathe. I may come back to that project at a later date.

Ed.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Lapped the lawnmower fuel tap to a perfect surface only to find the leak was from a crack in the plastic pipe. Life is so much easier for numbskulls who don't know how to mend things.

Japanese saws only cut on the pull stroke because they didn't have benches or vises so carpenters held the wood in their feet. Try that and you soon find a push saw doesn't work.

[Nick WheelerParticipant @nickwheeler]

Finally got around to making a rack for the QCTP holders. 10 pieces of 70x25x1 bent sheet steel, 1 of 25×4, some welding and a couple of screws to hold it to the cupboard door.

[Clive HaynesParticipant @clivehaynes74488]

I went to cut the lawn today, caught a small log in the cutting deck and snapped the toothed belt between the two blades. Went indoors to order new belt (luckily part No was on old one) and found they were £22 + p&p, further search to Belts on line – £5,27+ vat+ p&p. What a difference, so I ordered two and still came less than £18, what a con. I'll cut the grass another day but not tomorrow it's going to rain.

Clive

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