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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 12-26-2014
Nice job Greg. It's always scary to go back to a project after a crash. Glad you finally got the upper hand.
Tom
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 12-27-2014
Now that's a really robust way of holding the part for turning and the best of both worlds. You get the fast truing of the chuck and the secure clamping of a faceplate all in one.
I'm glad it all worked out so well!
Note to myself is it to check my rarely used 12" 4-jaw to see if it has those T-slots like yours. Nice!
Edit: Went looking and found a photo of my 12" 4-jaw chuck mounted on my lathe. No T-slots on mine, rats. It's a high quality Pratt Burnerd which is on a D1-6 adapter plate so it has four socket head cap screws at 45º from the jaws. I wouldn't want to mess with altering it for the rare chance I might need to strap something down as you did. For that I still have a 15" D1-6 direct mount faceplate which has the original Cosmolene still on it. One of these days it'll be needed....
![[Image: IMG_2244-r_zps1112546c.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/kenm10759/Dads%20shop/IMG_2244-r_zps1112546c.jpg)
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - arvidj - 12-28-2014
Yet another of my "Not in the same league as most everything else in this thread" ...
Like everyone else I've accumulated a large number of clamps and locking pliers over the years. They seem to have gravitated to the top of one of the tool boxes proving that chaos [not the theory, the traditional definition 'lacking any order' ... is alive and well in the garage.
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For years I wanted to put them under the welding table but that would suggest that I actually had finished the welding table rather than the 50% done thing I use for welding. The next best thing I could think of was a "doesn't have anything on it" spot on the wall ...
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A quick trip to the basement for some 1/4 inch all thread, some washers and nylon locking nuts, a really long drill bit to go thru the 3 1/2 2x4 and the shelf plus a 5 foot piece of 1/2 galvanized pipe left over from some other project and this is what I ended up with ...
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Shortly thereafter the top of the tool box looked much better and actually can be used for something useful ...
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... and the wall now has now evolved to resemble something a little more orderly
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As I say, nowhere near what you guys are doing but at least it is made me feel I had made progress in the garage.
Arvid
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 12-28-2014
Don't sell yourself short Arvid - that is a nice solution to a problem. It doesn't need to be chrome plated to be functional.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 12-29-2014
nice job and I need to do the same. My clamps are thrown it a couple of boxes and it's a pain to dig through them to find the one size I need and of course, that one is always at the bottom.Ed
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - rleete - 12-29-2014
Holy cow, that's a lot of clamps.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Dr Stan - 12-29-2014
Lookin' good.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Dr Stan - 12-29-2014
(12-26-2014, 09:44 PM)f350ca Wrote: Ken must have spooked me, so I used the four jaw this time and clamped them down. Pretty sure the last time they shrank from the welding heat, but better safe than sorry.
Drilled and installed.
While I was on the USS Samuel Gompers I accidentally tossed a gate (around 4 to 6 inches) from a gate valve I had mounted an adjustable angle plate on the face plate of a 24X120 Lodge & Shippley lathe, TWICE! No idea what I did wrong.
BTW, the leading petty officer a First Class MR (AKA foreman) had his desk just behind the lathe surrounded on three sides by flat files. Needless to say he "was not amused".
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - krv3000 - 12-30-2014
nice set up
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 12-31-2014
I welded ends on an aluminum square tube to make an air cleaner box. Quenched the material after welding. Went soft and sticky, horrible to machine. Guess I annealed it, copper anneals if you quench it, does aluminum as well, is it better to let it cool slowly or does it matter. The 1/2 plate I used machines fine not welded.