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Yesterday I chopped up some of the 50mm x 50mm box section steel that was given to me and tacked together a new bench for my roll cabs and top chests, as well as two welding benches. One is to replace the frame I am currently using and the other is for a mate of mine. Today I will finish welding the bench for my tool boxes and paint it. Then I'll see if I have enough time to finish any of the others.
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Painted and in position. The small frame next to it is to lift a small 4-drawer cabinet off the ground to allow the breather pipe for the flammable cabinet to be connected.
Next thing to do is cut the top. You may be wondering why I just don't stick the top chests on top of the roll cabs - well one doesn't have any wheels, and the other one is fractionally smaller than the top chest.
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Not as impressive as a set of air-cooled radial engine cylinders, but probably took me just as long. Just finished making one of the arbor support bushes for my mill; it had only the bare horizontal arbor when I bought it, there were a few of the spacing bushes in amongst the cutters that I bought the other week, but I'm having to make the two support bushes as well as another 9" worth of spacer bushes. And the left-hand threaded nut.
This bush is 82mm long (about 3 1/4"), I cut the internal keyway by racking on the lathe, must have taken at least 6 hours in total just to cut the darn keyway.
Taking .002" cuts toward the headstock, I got lots of shuddering (for want of a better term) and the finish in the base of the cut reflected this, looked like a corrugated track. For the last few passes, I tried turning the cutter around and taking the cuts in the opposite direction, i.e. by pulling the cutter out of the bore toward the tailstock. This resulted in a nice smooth cut.
The pic of the cutter unfortunately is focused on the background, but you get the idea.
The other support bush has to be identical to this one, but when that's done I'll make the spacer bushes one inch long each.
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Nice work Pete, you need a shaper.
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(11-15-2015, 09:31 PM)f350ca Wrote: Nice work Pete, you need a shaper.
or a set of keyway broaches
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A few days ago, I got a chance to test my VFD, which was heavily smoked in the fire. It came to life when I powered it up, but wouldn't run the motor. It showed 'E-5' on the display. When I got some time, I pulled up the manual and looked up error messages. Turns out, since I was looking at it sideways on the table, I misread it. It was actually 'E-S'. Right... I pulled the Emergency Stop button and tried the motor. Perfect operation. That meant it would be worth going through it and cleaning off the smoke.
Long story short, today I got the VFD system finished, swapped the motor on the new mill/drill to the 1 1/2 HP 3-phase motor and mounted the system on the wall.
The next project will be to make a spline wrench for the top of the spindle so I can remove the big nut and take the spindle pulley off. Hopefully, there will be enough thickness in the bottom of the aluminum pulley to drill in 6 magnets for the Hall-effect sensor for the MachTach in the control panel.
I picked up a used VFD a few weeks ago. I have a line on a 2 HP motor. These will go on the Storebro Bruk lathe. The projects never end.
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(11-15-2015, 10:20 PM)Dr Stan Wrote: (11-15-2015, 09:31 PM)f350ca Wrote: Nice work Pete, you need a shaper.
or a set of keyway broaches
I actually have a set of keyway broaches from a clearing sale a few years ago, have never used them. This keyway though is about 3 times longer than any of the spigots in the broach set, I figured that would result in a broken broach as it comes out the end of the spigot. Correct me if I'm wrong- before I start the second bush!
I was sorely tempted to put in a bid on a shaper on eBay last week. Decided on the marriage instead  Sure is on the list though.
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(11-15-2015, 10:46 PM)Hawkeye Wrote: A few days ago, I got a chance to test my VFD, which was heavily smoked in the fire. It came to life when I powered it up, but wouldn't run the motor. It showed 'E-5' on the display. When I got some time, I pulled up the manual and looked up error messages. Turns out, since I was looking at it sideways on the table, I misread it. It was actually 'E-S'. Right... I pulled the Emergency Stop button and tried the motor. Perfect operation. That meant it would be worth going through it and cleaning off the smoke.
Long story short, today I got the VFD system finished, swapped the motor on the new mill/drill to the 1 1/2 HP 3-phase motor and mounted the system on the wall.
The next project will be to make a spline wrench for the top of the spindle so I can remove the big nut and take the spindle pulley off. Hopefully, there will be enough thickness in the bottom of the aluminum pulley to drill in 6 magnets for the Hall-effect sensor for the MachTach in the control panel.
I picked up a used VFD a few weeks ago. I have a line on a 2 HP motor. These will go on the Storebro Bruk lathe. The projects never end.
Wow that is a really nice setup, sure beats my 'cables-across-the-floor' system! Do you have a cooling fan in the cabinet for the VFD?
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