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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 12-14-2014
if the guy using it isn't smart enough to count the gards he doesn't need to be using it.
Man that's one piece of beautiful machine work.
DA
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 12-14-2014
(12-14-2014, 05:30 PM)DaveH Wrote: First class job Ken
DaveH
(12-14-2014, 05:50 PM)dallen Wrote: if the guy using it isn't smart enough to count the gards he doesn't need to be using it.
Man that's one piece of beautiful machine work.
DA
Dave & David,
Thanks for the kind thoughts, but it's not quite true. In all honesty, I had a brain fart along about the 2.200" inch mark and went beyond .050" long. I would shoot myself if David would send that completed firearm.
You can see it in this photo with adjusted contrast and a bit closer.
![[Image: DSC_0511-r_zps7e1a389d.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/kenm10759/Dads%20shop/DSC_0511-r_zps7e1a389d.jpg)
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 12-14-2014
(12-14-2014, 06:48 PM)PixMan Wrote:only person that will know is you cause I'm not gonna tell anyone, blame it on the program(12-14-2014, 05:30 PM)DaveH Wrote: First class job Ken
DaveH
(12-14-2014, 05:50 PM)dallen Wrote: if the guy using it isn't smart enough to count the gards he doesn't need to be using it.
Man that's one piece of beautiful machine work.
DA
Dave & David,
Thanks for the kind thoughts, but it's not quite true. In all honesty, I had a brain fart along about the 2.200" inch mark and went beyond .050" long. I would shoot myself if David would send that completed firearm.
You can see it in this photo with adjusted contrast and a bit closer.
DA
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 12-15-2014
(12-14-2014, 06:48 PM)PixMan Wrote: ...I had a brain fart along about the 2.200" inch mark and went beyond .050" long...
I would say that particular mark is a specific hold off for an unspecified load at a distance that is yet to be determined
I didn't do much this weekend. I tried to do some clean up and organisation, and that started with gathering together all my taper and reduced shank drills. Some I have by the lathe, others are in wooden blocks and the rest are just laying about. These include ones I have bought new or second hand, and those given to me by Russ.
Some had surface rust on them, so as I cleaned and oiled them I also wrote down manufacturer name, drill size and any specific details and took a photo of each. Then I added them into my tool log. I only catalogue drills that are larger than 1/2" or 13mm (i.e. those not in standard garden variety drill indexes), as I know I have sets of them. Larger drills however are somewhat different and as I haven't yet figured out how to store them other than putting them in a drawer, the tool log means I can tell with a few mouse clicks if I have a drill of a specific size. Much quicker than sorting through a drawer!
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - JScott - 12-15-2014
The low beam headlight socket on my Ford Fusion melted last week. I couldn't find a replacement H11 socket at the auto parts stores so I ordered one from eBay. When it arrived I tried it with my bulb and found a small discrepancy. The socket was missing a slot to accept the internal tab in the bulb. For the price of a return I decided to just modify the one I had. I used a 3/32" endmill to open a slot for the 0.625" tab. The pictures tell the tale.
This is what I thought I had ordered.
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The part on the left is what I received. You can see the tab in the bulb base on the right and no corresponding slot in the socket on the left.
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Here is the 1/2" collet I used to hold the ?0.1875 endmill. This is a case of using an R8 collet to hold a smaller bar which in turn holds smaller collets. This one is made by Kennametal.
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I used a parallel to hold the socket in the vise. It was not terribly sturdy but I was just milling nylon and it held. As my mentor tells me, "If it works it isn't wrong."
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Here we see the finished slot. It is well centered which is lucky because I just set the position by eye.
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And lastly we have the assembly with socket and bulb. It fit pretty well.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - arvidj - 12-15-2014
Nice work on the socket.
If I were faced with this problem I would have broken it into two parts. The first would be to locate the Dremel. The second would be to locate the socket after I had tried to do it quick and dirty free-hand and the Dremel would catch and fling the socket half way across the shop.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 12-15-2014
(12-15-2014, 02:23 PM)JScott Wrote: ...
And lastly we have the assembly with socket and bulb. It fit pretty well.
Nice save JS.
Ed
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - schor - 12-15-2014
Nice job on the fix. Always nice when you have the tools to do a job.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 12-16-2014
Nice work there JScott.
I'm curious about the Ford. What model year is that? I'm asking because I'm buying out my company car coming off lease today and it's a 2013 Ford Fusion. It's been very good, but if there's something I need to be wary of....
I just hope it's a little better for servicing headlamps than the previous one I bought, a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. One that one, you have to remove the entire front bumper cover to remove the headlamp housings...just to change the light bulbs! Is that car a bit easier to service?
No complaints about the '13 I've been driving for about 20 months. I took it into the Ford dealer to see if I could get the company to put new brakes on it before I bought it. They told me it still has 70% of the pads remaining. And the car has 85,300 miles on it! It's a keeper IMHO.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - JScott - 12-16-2014
(12-16-2014, 07:34 AM)PixMan Wrote: I'm curious about the Ford. What model year is that? I'm asking because I'm buying out my company car coming off lease today and it's a 2013 Ford Fusion. It's been very good, but if there's something I need to be wary of....
It is a 2009. Sent you a PM with more details.