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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 04-07-2015
(04-07-2015, 12:03 AM)aRM Wrote: DA
Makes sense, but would U use the requisite wood-turning Tools, those curved Chisel shaped ones on the Toolpost
Or Your ordinary HSS bits ???
We rarely use HSS ground ones so would be at a loss with our inserts, although I did turn my piece of Mammoth and Ivory for a haft once or twice
Would be nice to know how U Guys work wood
aRM
yes I've used HSS bits on wood, I've also used inserts for aluminum on wood, plastic and other similar soft materials.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - krv3000 - 04-07-2015
hi I mist that one rob good job will have to get one of them moulds so I can make sum
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - flosi - 04-07-2015
I have once turned a handle for a scraper from beech. I used the same kind of hss tool as I use for steel. I got nice finish.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - aRM - 04-07-2015
(04-07-2015, 04:33 PM)flosi Wrote: I have once turned a handle for a scraper from beech. I used the same kind of hss tool as I use for steel. I got nice finish.Hi FLOSI
Good to hear from U from so very far away. Wow !!!
And very well written, for a non-English speaking person
BTW, dug up any Oosic, Walrus tooth or mammoth lately ???
Should be lots under Your icepack !!!
Thanks for the input, every one's makes the day
Take care
aRM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - flosi - 04-08-2015
Hi aRM
There never were any land animals here that came on their own accord other than the fox. I don't know if the walrus was extinct before people settled here but its ivory is long since depleted. And btw the ice age ended more than 10.000 years ago, just few glaciers left that are melting away and will be gone shortly.
The beech I mentioned was grown somewhere around the Baltic sea probably Sweden or Finland. Our own birch woods are long gone, burnt down to clear land for agriculture and then erosion, but some of it was used to smelt iron. We were self sufficient with iron for the first few hundred years and stopped making our own as cheaper and better iron became available from Germany.
As to my English a spellING checker makes much difference.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - RobWilson - 04-08-2015
(04-07-2015, 04:20 PM)krv3000 Wrote: hi I mist that one rob good job will have to get one of them moulds so I can make sum
You can borrow mine if you wish
Rob
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Roadracer_Al - 04-08-2015
A friend of mine got an Alpine Sunbeam shell for cheap, and has been laboring to put a Ford V6 into it. Weird motor - 2.4L (iirc), cast iron, from the '70s, narrow angle, extremely compact. Anyway, someone makes a swap kit for this motor into the Alpine, and I've been handling some of the welding for him.
The latest hurdle to overcome was that the thermostat housing outlet pointed exactly the wrong way. So I got a stick of aluminum tube down at ye olde metal recycler/salvage/retail joint and whipped this up.
In retrospect, I should have taken "before" pictures. The flat plate covers where the outlet used to be.
While I think the work is satisfactory, it's not awesome, and I do wish I could get perfect, shiny rows of bead.
I told him that if it leaks, I'll machine one from solid for him.
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![[Image: IMG_0601sm.jpg]](http://www.levelfive.com/WEBPIX/IMG_0601sm.jpg)
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 04-08-2015
(04-08-2015, 05:30 PM)Roadracer_Al Wrote: A friend of mine got an Alpine Sunbeam shell for cheap, and has been laboring to put a Ford V6 into it. Weird motor - 2.4L (iirc), cast iron, from the '70s, narrow angle, extremely compact. Anyway, someone makes a swap kit for this motor into the Alpine, and I've been handling some of the welding for him.
The latest hurdle to overcome was that the thermostat housing outlet pointed exactly the wrong way. So I got a stick of aluminum tube down at ye olde metal recycler/salvage/retail joint and whipped this up.
In retrospect, I should have taken "before" pictures. The flat plate covers where the outlet used to be.
While I think the work is satisfactory, it's not awesome, and I do wish I could get perfect, shiny rows of bead.
I told him that if it leaks, I'll machine one from solid for him.
you could always tool up and cast one for him.
DA
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - PixMan - 04-08-2015
6 cylinder? Bah...should have thrown a Ford 289 V8 in it and rebadged it to a Sunbeam Alpine TIGER!
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 04-08-2015
As good a welds as I ever get in aluminum Al. Think it just takes days and days of practise to get this nice stacks of dimes, my two cents anyway.