What Did You Do Today 2019

[IanHParticipant @ianh]

I used my bargain ALDI endoscope to keep an eye on drilling the seal bypass ports in a brake master cylinder I have been making. I knew it would come in handy one day!

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

IanT, I can't find the Yt video now, but saw one where a groove was ground into a centre punch so that the cutting edge of the point looked like a wood gouge. This was then used to shatter the outer ring of a blind bearing. Note a thick rag was covering the bearing to arrest any flying shards. It only took a couple of 'smart' blows with a hammer to shatter the bearing.

BobH

[Joseph Noci 1Participant @josephnoci1]

That paint brush… I have quite a few that look just like it..Didn't think they were available in your part of the world..

Joe

Posted by IanH on 28/07/2019 22:49:00:

I used my bargain ALDI endoscope to keep an eye on drilling the seal bypass ports in a brake master cylinder I have been making. I knew it would come in handy one day!

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Could not figure how to add text to the above photos. These tools were made from socket head bolts, carved out on a surface grinder,

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Joseph Noci 1 on 29/07/2019 08:29:38:

That paint brush… I have quite a few that look just like it..Didn't think they were available in your part of the world..

Joe

I was going to say the same Joe, I have those paint brushes too!

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

First searched the house for the dividing-head tailstock as I'll need to use that with a rotary-table for machining my wagon's crank-shaft. Found it!

Then attended to the cross-travel lock on the milling-machine.

The DRO revealed that when centre-drilling the ends of the crankshaft blank, the cross-travel was creeping by some 2-3 thou' just by these low drilling forces. (The blank being clamped vertically to an 8-inch long angle-box, just gave sufficient room for facing and centre-drilling with the tools in R8 spindle-collets.)

Investigating, I discovered the lock, which is not at all easily accessible, was not locking!

Then it was case of one thing after another…

The lock is a short rod with cross-pin handle, and a 5/16"BSW threaded spigot. This was some half-inch too short to reach the back of the gib, and oddly, looked as if cut off with a grinder. On the other hand half-inch would be too long for an anti-burring slug – IF the lock ever had one.

Removed the wiper mouldings and retainers as they interfered with the gib adjusters.

Removed and cleaned the gib.

Rooted through a come-in-handy box, found a suitable temporary lock – an old clevis with long tail of the right thread. I can worry about a tidier replacement later, especially as the vertical-slide locks need replacing too.

Nor had the long-travel locks, locked; I found and corrected with small slugs a while ago. These had looked as if hack-sawn short!

Re-fitted the gib and adjusted it, slightly tighter than previously.

Then found the wipers and retainers needed the holes for the adjusters filing oval as they had been made (by the factory) so far off-centre they would not go over the adjuster screws, now protruding from the slide.

Next, having to had remove the special conduit clamp I'd made for the long-travel encoder, it was an absolute rude-word to refit. So modified its mounting slightly. Refitted it.

Phew!

Stopped for a brew and to see who's done what today in their workshops!

Can I get on with the crank-shaft now?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I'm pretty sure that I can't afford one but … I've just received an eMail advertising this: **LINK**

https://www.kemet.co.uk/products/metallography/portable-grinder-polisher

< drool >

MichaelG.

[Del GrecoParticipant @delgreco45469]

I bought my first lathe. Very happy! A Myford Super7 Mk1. Thread to follow. (Technically I did it Sunday, but it was a long day and I only just got a chance to post!)

Del

Edited By Del Greco on 30/07/2019 10:36:22

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Good news, Del Greco!

Plenty of help & advice available here if you need it.

Errr, was the pun intended?

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Today I finished the construction of the cylindrical grinding attachment to Stefan Gotteswinter's design and I am very pleased with it . I've still got to get a mains plug for the power supply unit, but I've no reason to think it won't function as intended. ( Famous last words …….. ) Here's what it looks like:

I have made exhaustive use of the surface grinder to true faces parallel where required.

John

P.S. Blast! Just noticed that I've forgotten to drill and tap the hole for the drive dog. Lucky I didn't lock the workshop up when dodging the thunderstorms as I came in for lunch!

[FullaFlavaParticipant @fullaflava]

Not so much what I’ve done today but lately:

Made a 5c adapter for my myford legacy chucks so I can move them straight from the lathe to the dividing head.

Made a caddy to both help attachment of my magnifying light lens and keep the often used tailstock stuff and chuck keys

Made some sleeves so all my boring bars can all use the same tool holder

Knocked up a board to magnetically attach my tool holders to the collet door

Tidied my Spaniard and socket drawers

Still plenty to do

Al

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Nice work Al, do you find those Spaniards a bit untidy ?
DaveD

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I suggest singeing his beard to keep him in order.

Neil

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Why is everyone’s workshop so much tidier than mine ?

Dave W

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Posted by Samsaranda on 31/07/2019 20:52:01:

Why is everyone’s workshop so much tidier than mine ?

Dave W

Is it because you don't have any Spaniards to help out ??

Daved

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Don't want to worry you FullaFlava, but those brightly-coloured plastic trays look upside-down and all those sockets and things will fall out…..

'Fraid tidy and I don't mix; Spaniards or not. I try but everything gets all jumbled up again! A lot of it's where all my workshop things have accreted randomly and been stored randomly over many years, through various house moves too, and are overflowing the space available.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Finally got around to starting the wallpapering in our dining room. SWMBO had pointed out that she bought the wallpaper five years ago. It went a lot faster after I remembered that galvanized flat headed nails held the paper up better than countersunk screws.

Al:- if you ever get to the stage again that you are repainting the collet cupboard door, you can do what I did:- Use short lengths of angle iron with a pair of dowels fitted to the top sides for the toolholders to seat onto, with the other sides welded (hence the repaint!) onto the inside of the door. I managed to fit most of my toolholders in this way

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Where did you get your magic drawers Al ? I like the way your Spaniards & sockets don't fall out of the trays, are they magnetic ?

George.

[FullaFlavaParticipant @fullaflava]

Funny how the iPhone inverts the images!

Balls! That’s what I tried today, I wanted to scratch build a 90 deg ball valve:

Next time I’ll make some flanges and a spindle.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Living less than 4 miles from the Todbrook reservoir, and having seen the numerous 'Road Closed' signs in the area : May I ask folks to spare a thought for the people of Whaley Bridge.

The town has been evacuated in anticipation of the dam collapsing.

You have probably seen the News coverage, but I think the images of the Chinook 'back-filling' the broken spillway tell us a lot about the magnitude of the situation … that pile of 1-ton bags looks pathetically small.

MichaelG.

**LINK**

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/whaley-bridge-dam-collapse-raf-chinook_uk_5d43d8dce4b0acb57fca437a

[Bob McParticipant @bobmc91481]

Michael….

Thoughts are with those people of Whalley.

Yes I live in Poynton some 12? miles or so down from Whalley Bridge and there is a small stream at the top of my road which has overflowed its banks washed a stone bridge away completely, the fields have flooded and factories on a nearby industrial estate have been inundated with water.

As I understand it .. if the dam at Whalley gives way the water will inundate the town centre and follow the path of the canal probably taking all the boats with it.!

There has been a concerted effort by greedy developers who have no connection with the Poynton area to put hundreds of houses on what is basically an area of natural beauty, perhaps they might be put off when it is realized that the fields are in fact flood plains.

Lets hope the RAF at Whalley can save the day again.!

Bob..

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Such developer won't be stopped until the mortgage-lenders and home-insurers concertedly say, in public, " Build on that flood-plain if you like, but the houses are all cash sales only and no Acts of God insurance. "

I think a lot of the enormous estates springing up everywhere without the slightest regard for local physical or human geography are being driven by remote planners who appear simply to apply politicians' theories, to fill in the white spaces on an AA road-atlas.

Not an Ordnance Survey map though. Those have contours but officials can't read them when determining safe distances from flood-prone rivers. As a friend in Yorkshire put it, he had problems with his insurer because he lived within a few hundred yards of the bank… but " They " were unable to spot that his road was some 200 feet above it!

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Similar problem in Feb 17 at Oroville as discussed on another forum.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Al lour thoughts are with the residents of Whaley Bridge and settlements downstream.

Does the dam have a flushing / drain-valve at its foot, as many do?

That might not have coped with the height of the flood, and it will only add yet more to the swollen R. Goyt – but at least in a controlled manner until the water has dropped below spill-way level.

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