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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 11-14-2015
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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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 11-14-2015
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 11-14-2015
Ed
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 11-15-2015
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.
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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.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 11-15-2015
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.
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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.
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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.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 11-15-2015
Nice work Pete, you need a shaper.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Dr Stan - 11-15-2015
(11-15-2015, 09:31 PM)f350ca Wrote: Nice work Pete, you need a shaper.
or a set of keyway broaches
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Hawkeye - 11-15-2015
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.
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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.
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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.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 11-15-2015
(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.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 11-15-2015
(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?