What Did You Do Today (2016)

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Some of those had 5C collets, some had R8, some had 3C.

Post a picture of the collets with some sizes.

[Mike ClarkeParticipant @mikeclarke87958]

Made some holders for commonly used cutter and tools to sit on my milling table. They are 3D printed and the base incorporates lugs to sit in the T slots. Really handy having somewhere to keep things – always used to have trouble remembering where I'd put my chuck keys!

Cheers,

Mike

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Found the type of collet it's U2 not the cheapest but a few people have modified to ER collets a link shows one conversion

**LINK**

Overhang might be a problem at times.

[John CoatesParticipant @johncoates48577]

After travelling for 4 1/2 hours down to Wiltshire on Saturday to collect the Barker lathe, on Sunday I tackled extracting it from the car and getting it into the garage. Considering three blokes and an engine hoist had got it into my estate I was tackling the extraction on my todd very slowly and methodically. The one good thing I had done in Wiltshire was to rest the headstock on a wooden sled arrangement and lashed it together. This meant I could slide the Barker some way out of the car so I could get my engine hoist onto it.

A bit further out and it was time to get some slings on and get it clear of the car

Getting closer to its new home by inches

Finally the Eagle has landed !! My back was pretty aching after all this so I went for a lie down

[John CoatesParticipant @johncoates48577]

Wish I knew how to rotate those pictures. They are fine on my hard drive

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

…Windows 8 or 10??

[John CoatesParticipant @johncoates48577]

Posted by Muzzer on 03/10/2016 20:08:33:

…Windows 8 or 10??

Linux Mint 17.3

[john swift 1Participant @johnswift1]

windows 10  test of John Coats  photos

  

its a bit too big !!!!!!!

 

 

 

Edited By john swift 1 on 03/10/2016 20:32:06

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

Went for a drive today and stopped by the dam wall on the way into town.

Lake Hume is over 97.5% full and there is serious flooding of the Murray River as the dam gates had to be opened to let the water out.

Albury, Corowa and downstream people are sandbagging/evacuating low lying areas. **LINK**

My favourite trout fishing spot is a maelstrom so it looks like I shall have to get stuck back into the workshop and cut some metal and balsawood.

* Danny M *

[Four stroke FredParticipant @fourstrokefred]

What did I do today, well some thing really special. The day started by being picked up in 1923 Bentley and being taken to a private airfield for a flight in a vintage aircraft. The aircraft was a De Havilland Hornet moth of 1935 vintage. I was a bit apprehensive about the flight but needn't have worried. The sky was clear, the views of the North Yorkshire moors spectacular and the flight was quite smooth as was the landing. Can't get the smile off my face. If you watch TV tomorrow night you can see Penelope Keith ( Hidden Villages) complete the same flight in the same aircraft

George

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Not a lot today, just boring motors as usual but tonight, had me tea and set about drawing and programming a new door striker plate for my classic Ferrari.

Not really the Donald has a bungy strap for a door retainer.

These are for a guy who has a collection of classic cars and the striker plates, being in Mazac are impossible to get hold of. Got to do 4 RH ones and 2 LH ones to complete his line up.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Is that replica 'lead-rot', John … carefully crafted for the sake of Mazak verisimilitude ?

MichaelG.

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Seriously though: That's a very useful job.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Your drawing ability is improving Mr JS

Will it be milled out, if so do the couple of internal corners need to be drawn with a radius or does the software not need that and just leaves whatever the cutter dia is?

[john carruthersParticipant @johncarruthers46255]

Today I made a fixed steady for the sc3, I've been meaning to do one since it arrived.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Posted by john swift 1 on 03/10/2016 20:29:00:

windows 10 test of John Coats photos

But if you've just copied and saved the photos from the screen, the file isn't anything like the original – unless John sent you them?

Windows 8 / 10 rotational issues seem to be most easily fixed by making an edit (any edit, even the tiniest of edits such as cropping a sliver off one edge) and resaving. Telling it to "rotate clockwise" etc doesn't stick. Windows 7 was fine….

[john swift 1Participant @johnswift1]

just right clicked the photo in Johns folder and then save as

then used photostudio to rotate by 90

 didn't use print screen to  saved what was displayed on my screen I know thats not the same

John

 

 edit to correct spacing

Edited By john swift 1 on 07/10/2016 15:16:26

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

I have particular problems with pictures taken by my different iPhones, uploaded from Windows 8 and 10 laptops onto this site, something to do with the way the forum software processes them during upload / display. Reorienting them beforehand in W7 works, with W8 and W10 it doesn't, so they display wonky. Any edit in W8/10 works, as mentioned.

The problem seems to arise from the "metadata" saved in the graphics file – stuff like the date taken, camera model, orientation etc. Some applications insist on using the orientation metadata from the time the photo was originally taken whereas other applications are clever(?) enough to see the metadata showing that the orientation has been changed in the meantime.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Muzzer on 07/10/2016 15:20:31:

The problem seems to arise from the "metadata" saved in the graphics file – stuff like the date taken, camera model, orientation etc. Some applications insist on using the orientation metadata from the time the photo was originally taken whereas other applications are clever(?) enough to see the metadata showing that the orientation has been changed in the meantime.

It depends how they are rotated. Some ways only change a flag in .DS_store (Apple) or thumbs.db (Windows) it seems and this doesn't follow the file to a different computer.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I've knocked off a few more gears for the Jovilabe.

I needed to make a 6mm mandrel… what a pain not a single bit of sensible sized mild steel (I would have settled for any designation of MS!) The first few offcuts I tried were either really nasty stainless (the kind that work hardens when you stare at it – not good for my dies!) and a bit of steering tie rod that was tougher than old boots and turned like a ploughed field…

In the end I found some free-machining stainless that used to be a toilet roll holder, turned and threaded like a dream!

I parted off a whole host of slices of 1 3/4" brass with the Arc Euro carbide insert parting tool. The swarf was pouring out of the cut like water – I've never seen anything like it before!

Neil

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

Today I changed all my compressed air fittings from Euro PITA to PCL. I can now disconnect / connect with just one hand instead of three plus I have no air leaks. I should have done it a long time ago.

Rik

[Anonymous]

Cleared out most of the greenhouse this morning, it didn't matter that showers were blowing through. I've picked most, but not quite all, of the chillies. They're washed and will dry overnight before going in the freezer:

This afternoon I rolled up a couple of lengths of 1" x ¼" steel and fitted them to the traction engine smokeboxes ready for welding. They will then be machined to fit the boiler shell. Then I set up the dividing head on the universal mill to provide a lead of 639.8mm as a precursor to machining some 6DP helical gears:

Andrew

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, yesterday afternoon I drilled a couple of pieces of 50mm x 25mm steel channel and welded 12mm nuts on two of the holes on each one.

These are for my Cobra milling machine, which I've decided to unbolt from the stand so that it can be moved into different positions and which will allow it to be lifted off to make it easier to clean underneath and also give a little more clearance to operate the Y axis handle when used with machine mounts. Hopefully the machine mounts will suppress vibration, that I sometimes get, into the stand as well.

They have yet to be painted, but the above photo shows the front one in position. The machine mounts should also help prevent any twist in the base by not being bolted down. I believe the machine's weight will give enough friction on the machine mounts to stop it from moving around during use.

Regards Nick.

[BikepeteParticipant @bikepete]

Posted by John Stevenson on 02/10/2016 17:53:00:

Some of those had 5C collets, some had R8, some had 3C.

Post a picture of the collets with some sizes.

Might also be Deckel type 20mm collets with the sawtooth drawbar threads – plenty on ebay if so.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

After nearly 3 hours in a traffic jam yesterday morning which normally wouldn't be the direction /section I use the M4 is stuffed again tonight. Wouldn't normally mind going home 3 hours or so later but tonight is club night. This week is worse than usual but not the worst ever. And today I might just as well have stayed at home apart from the apple flan a colleague brought in (yesterday she turned round and missed the jam, I can't get away with that)

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Needed some more 1/8 stainless so I called in at the local stockholder.

Only 3mm stainless, but yes, you can fit 3m of 1/2" and 5/16" EN3 in a Mondeo, along with 1800mm of 1/4". Oops, still at less than 60p afoot that sets me up for a while

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