What Did You Do Today (2017)

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

Posted by Spurry on 23/02/2017 17:30:21:

John

Not sure if you have tried the step method of cutting a curved groove. The principle is that you use a smallish cutter say 6mm and groove the required hollow in steps, which either be large or small, depending on how much patience you have.

Your large radius cutter would then just have to shave off the tops of the steps to give you the shape you desire.

HTH

Pete

Pete,

Thanks, yes, I used an 8/10/12/16 in succession taking a little off each time. I think because due to my inexperience and the fact that my kit isn't exactly top of the range (Mindful here of poor workman blaming tools syndrome ) and that my time is the cheapest commodity I have, slowly/carefully is the only way. Given the advice above, I have abandoned the ER route and will get the tool to which Nick directed me.

Thanks again

John

[SpurryParticipant @spurry]

John

As your machine is small, you might make better progress just using the 8mm cutter and move it side-to-side to make a wider groove, instead of wasting time changing tools with all the problems associated with re-setting to correct depth etc.

Just a suggestion

Pete

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

Posted by Spurry on 24/02/2017 19:10:57:

John

As your machine is small, you might make better progress just using the 8mm cutter and move it side-to-side to make a wider groove, instead of wasting time changing tools with all the problems associated with re-setting to correct depth etc.

Just a suggestion

Pete

I knew that After I read your post…………. Thank you

[HowiParticipant @howi]

finally finished 'Sophie'

plus link to youtube video **LINK**

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Thanks for the comments re insurers.

Funnily enough, the following morning, at 0800 had a call saying "Your insurers have told us to collect the car"

" Hold your horses, we haven't agreed the value yet, Call me back in a week"

Friends have had similar experiences. When my daughters car was torched, they started acting quite aggressively, as if they owned the car. Again, before the price had been agreed. In contrast, my wife's car, written off by someone reversing without looking where he was going, the assessor looked at the car and said "I can't offer you book value. Its too good for that" and offered just over twice as much. (Until this idiot dented the door, distorted the subframe and cracked the radiator, it was an exceptional, rust free 17 year old with lots of life left in it).

Have asked for an independant repair estimate.

However, it might be an easy way of getting rid of an eleven year old , and betting something more upto date, that is easier to load (4 door instead of 2) for taking exhibits to shows. Only worry is the effect on the bank balance!  (The courtesy car probably started me thinking that way)

At least the tree didn't injure my wife or myself, so things could have been a lot worse.

Howard.

Edited By Howard Lewis on 25/02/2017 17:05:29

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Just managed to see the conjunction of Mars and Uranus through my bins in a gap between clouds! Amazing! Managed to do some astronomy!

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

No chance here it's pouring with rain!

Mike

[Jim NicParticipant @jimnic]

Howi

Nice looking job on Sophie, she's a good runner too. Well done.

Jim

[Allan BParticipant @allanb]

On my mobile so can’t post a pic, but swapped the leaking stop tap at home yesterday, only problem being that we couldn’t get the size we needed (22mm to 15mm reducing stop tap) so as you do, mounted the stop tap body into the lathe and bored the body out from 20mm to 22mm then had to machine the chamfer back in for the olive, things you have to do to keep an older house going 😀

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

I am making a stand for my Clarke CL430 lathe. As pallet timber is much more readily available at home, that's what I'm using. The legs will be 5" x 3" timbers. These had annular nails in, too difficult to remove with a crowbar, so I thought the enormous length and leverage of the timber (they are 5ft long) would work if I gripped the nail in my 4" vice. What happened was: I levered the vice off the bench.

So, put some studding through the bench top to secure it. At 8" deep, the bench timber was thicker than my longest 10mm drill. Needed to grind a long masonry drill to cut timber to go through the bench. Then to get a washer to spread the load I needed the bandsaw, and found one of the microswitches had failed.

It eventually took 2 days to get 60 nails out of the timbers.

Regards,

Richard.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by richardandtracy on 28/02/2017 10:18:16:

I am making a stand for my Clarke CL430 lathe. As pallet timber is much more readily available at home, that's what I'm using. The legs will be 5" x 3" timbers. These had annular nails in, too difficult to remove with a crowbar, so I thought the enormous length and leverage of the timber (they are 5ft long) would work if I gripped the nail in my 4" vice. What happened was: I levered the vice off the bench.

So, put some studding through the bench top to secure it. At 8" deep, the bench timber was thicker than my longest 10mm drill. Needed to grind a long masonry drill to cut timber to go through the bench. Then to get a washer to spread the load I needed the bandsaw, and found one of the microswitches had failed.

It eventually took 2 days to get 60 nails out of the timbers.

Regards,

Richard.

 

Bit late now I know, but if you can knock the nail back a bit to get the nailbar under the head stick a bit of pipe or a large bolt, or even a small block of wood, under the bar close to the jaw. This increases the fulcrum & you get much more leverage on the nail to start it off

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 28/02/2017 11:56:54

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

I think the residual moment about the fulcrum remains the same wherever you put the fulcrum, as does the moment reacted by the vice. Therefore, as the vice attachments do not change distance apart, the loads into the attachments will be the same. All that alters is the load at the end of the lever. It did, however irritating it may have been at the time, highlight that my vice was inadequately attached. I'd used 6mm dia hex headed, 75mm long screws into the bench when I built it 12 years ago. I had originally meant to use studding right through the bench but didn't have a long enough drill, so it serves me right for doing a bodge job in the beginning.

Regards,

Richard.

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

The moment may well stay the same but the force on the hold down bolts on the vice will change. You have two levers acting in opposition, one being the wood and the other the vice. As Sam suggested a bit of material right next to the nail to act as your fulcrum will change things enormously. May even have worked just with your vice and the length of wood. Just as you increase the mechanical advantage of the lever on the nail you also increase the mechanical advantage of the vice bolts on the nail.

regards Martin

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

So far today, and I hope it raises a smile somewhere:-

I don’t know what I’ve done today

But it has taken all day to do it

Digging roses lifting stuff

I hope I don’t live to rue it

I have a list of jobs to do

And it’s getting fairly long

And sometimes, jobs repeat themselves

When your truly gets it wrong

There is a cupboard in my kitchen

Where the hinge has gone askew

So SWIMBO asked me if it could

Be the next job I would do

A screwdriver was needed

So I went out to the shed

Where a kettle needed fixing

So I made a start on that instead

But a screwdriver was needed

I got one from the draw

It had a tip that I had damaged

When I dropped it in the floor

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

So I plugged in my grinder

The obvious to use

When I remembered that it wouldn’t go

Because I’d blown the fuse

So a screwdriver was needed

I must have more than one

There are a dozen of them somewhere

Where could they have gone?

So off I went to buy a fuse

On the way back from the house

I spliced a broken washing line

As a favour to the spouse

Then I spied the hose-pipe

Which required a special clip

To keep it on the tap because

It was very wont to slip

But a screwdriver was needed

Here came thoughts of de-je-vu

I shall have to go and buy one

The only thing to do

Whilst going to the vendors

To buy the clip and tool

The car broke down, I’m stranded

And feel a proper fool

I sent for the recovery

The men arrived quite soon

And when he did, he asked me

Have you got a screwdriver?

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

Managed to finish the boiler raising mechanism on my Burrell-Boydell traction engine as shown in the picture. For a sense of scale, the Acme thread is 1/4" inch dia.

Brian

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Made a few more puzzles… now down to 35 minutes each

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Hacksaw on 28/02/2017 16:41:12:

Made a few more puzzles… now down to 35 minutes each

I would have thought you could solve them quicker than that

Neil

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 28/02/2017 17:59:25:

Posted by Hacksaw on 28/02/2017 16:41:12:

Made a few more puzzles… now down to 35 minutes each

I would have thought you could solve them quicker than that

Neil

I thought of you today ! Having a cup of tea with the butcher / gamekeeper next to my forge , we were watching a bird of prey , circling very high , and he said it didn't have a tail so it wasn't a buzzard ..and we don't have eagles "darn sarf" , so he gets out some hunting binoculars (only 1000 quid ) but it had cleared off by then! . Gawping over the valley to the next farm , they were brilliant ! Battery powered range finder too ! Zeis ?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Hacksaw on 28/02/2017 18:12:21:

they were brilliant ! Battery powered range finder too ! Zeis ?

I'd hope so at a grand a pop! Zeiss are good, I had dead cheap east-German Zeiss 7×40 bins in the 80s and they were brilliant.

Now I've got Celestron 'nature' 8×42 which feel a lot more modern and take just as much fiddling to focus (my eyes hate eyepieces).

Neil

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Temptation got started in the workshop after being discharged yesterday just got fed up of being stuck in a bed at the hospital and playing with the laptop there.
Would like a lathe with a bit more grunt but will get there in the end.
Just removed the scale off my EN24 T crankshaft billet.
Back in my little heaven knob twiddling again what with the full size project and the model hydro to rebuild time is in short supply.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Welcome back to the workshop, Paul.

Neil

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Started on the S50 stationary engine; fettled & cleaned up basic castings…

George.

[ScrumpyParticipant @scrumpy]

Have just finished a smoke generater so we can cold smoke bacon and fish

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Huh.

Followed a diesel volvo estate into work this morning and the amount of smoke that was generating would have satisfied Admiral John Jellicoe in a major fleet action. Hope you fish smells sweeter.

regards Martin

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