MetalworkingFun Forum
Todays Project - What did you do today? - Printable Version

+- MetalworkingFun Forum (http://www.metalworkingfun.com)
+-- Forum: Machining (http://www.metalworkingfun.com/forum-5.html)
+--- Forum: Projects (http://www.metalworkingfun.com/forum-7.html)
+--- Thread: Todays Project - What did you do today? (/thread-727.html)

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - ScrapMetal - 09-01-2012

I believe that the oak is corrosive but while walking through the kitchen last night it occurred to me that all our knives are kept in an oak "block". No inserts, doesn't appear to be any sealer, but the knives haven't had a problem with rust. Same for all our tableware. Wife has an oak divider-thing in the drawer to hold the forks, spoons, etc. Still no rust problem.

[Image: 1429362-p-MULTIVIEW.jpg]

Any thoughts on this?

-Ron

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 09-01-2012

Ron,
Your tableware is probably nickel coated/plated Smile or stainless.
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - SnailPowered - 09-01-2012

Perhaps it's treated or maybe boiled? OR, are the knives all stainless? I don't know of too many newer knives that are carbon steel.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 09-01-2012

(09-01-2012, 11:11 AM)TOM REED Wrote: There are special solvents for joining plastics at least for some, a ;ight coat of solvent between pieces and they literally melt together, a call to your local plastics wholesaler will tell you compatible plastics and solvents for this.

I think Oak if corrosion is a problem could either be well sealed with a good oil or even a good coat of plastic paint. tom

that would work if I knew what the plastic was, one of the guys that I used to work with gave me a case of plastic tire treads that he had in his service truck when we got laid off that he had tried on a trash compactor that we sold to an outfit that was using it inside a building.

I know that 5 minute epoxy and PVC glue won't work, super glue might but acetone won't melt the stuff.

I guess I could just screw them to a piece of aluminum plate to hold the two pieces together then I can carve our a trough for the chuck to lay in.

What Screws Do You Use in Oak? Whatever I can get to screw into the stuff

I have a block that is similar to the one in the photo, its Birch or Maple

The insert idea is something that I may look into, be nice to have a say one inch annular cutter to cut out the slugs out of the flat bars of plastic

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Sunset Machine - 09-02-2012

I cleaned pine needles off the shop roof. Does that count? It was a heaping truckload..

Oh, Gerstner makes toolboxes from oak. Kits are $250, complete toolboxes for $1200.
http://www.gerstnerusa.com/DETAIL35.html

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 09-02-2012

(09-02-2012, 09:51 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: I cleaned pine needles off the shop roof. Does that count? It was a heaping truckload..
Sunset,
Only if you can show us. RotflRotflRotfl
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - ScrapMetal - 09-02-2012

(09-01-2012, 02:51 PM)DaveH Wrote: Ron,
Your tableware is probably nickel coated/plated Smile or stainless.
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

True, the knives and tableware are stainless but the sharpening rod that sits in the block is some kind of carbon steel and still doesn't corrode.

I know the block is made of "oak" but I don't really know what kind of oak. Are all "oaks" equal as far as corrosive properties go?

-Ron

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 09-02-2012

Maybe this should be what did you bust today. Was taping the ends of 1 inch rods for the shingle mill, using brass pads on the vice jaws. As I hit the bottom of the hole the rod slipped out and landed on the tap of coarse. Snapped off just below the face. Was wondering how to get it out when I remembered this nifty little tool. My uncle gave me a trove of machinist tooling a few years ago. Took me years to figure out what this was.

[Image: IMG_0156.jpg]

It has four fingers that slide in the slots and a collar to hold them into the slots at the end. You simply slide the fingers down the side of the tap as far as they'll go then push the collar down.

[Image: IMG_0155.jpg]

Back the tap out and there you go

[Image: IMG_0157.jpg]

You an just see the fingers in the flutes of the broken tap.

These ones were made by Walton no idea when Uncle Paul has been retired for years. I have one for 3/8 and 5/16, wish I had more.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 09-02-2012

they still sell them along with replacement fingers they can break off while trying to remove a broken tap

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - ETC57 - 09-02-2012

I have never seen one before now Greg, Chin
Do they have a special name, cause I gotta have me some of them!!Drool

Jerry.Popcorn