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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 06-30-2016

Finished up my weld positioner 3-jaw chuck mounting last night.

Started by setting up the .188" plate on the mill to drill four holes @ 90-degrees apart for mounting the plate to the turn table and three holes 120-degrees apart to mount the 3-jaw chuck to the adapter plate.
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Both bolt patterns drilled.
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I am so glad I let my son talk me into getting the DRO on my mill.  The bolt hole feature is awesome.  Find your center, plug in the diameter and how many holes you want plus where you want to start and end and the DRO spits out the X and Y locations of each hole.  As long as you enter the correct measurements the bolts drop right in to their respective holes.  GREAT feature.
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Machining the chuck adapter.  I just purchased the cheapest one I could find as I knew it would require machining.  This one just happened to be for a threaded spindle but seeing as how it won't be being used for that I will just machine it down to work.
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Chuck adapter completed as I welded it to the mounting plate.
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A couple close ups of my TIG welds.
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Chuck bolted to the adapter and mounting plate as well as bolted down to the turn table on the weld positioner.  All bolt holes lined up perfectly.
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Overview of the completed mounting on the weld positioner.  Ready for years of use.
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Mike.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 06-30-2016

Nice welds Mike. Thumbsup

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 06-30-2016

(06-30-2016, 11:26 AM)EdK Wrote: Nice welds Mike.  Thumbsup

Ed

Thanks Ed, I appreciate that. I wasn't thinking at the time because I was welding the adapter to the mounting plate on my welding table, but I should have bolted it down the positioner and actually used the positioner to make the welds. Those welds were actually freehand. I really had a brain fart on that one.

Mike.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - zmotorsports - 06-30-2016

(06-29-2016, 09:04 PM)pepi Wrote: Mike,

What model and size is that lathe?

Greg

The lathe is a PM1340GT (13"x40" size) that I purchased from Matt @ Quality Machine Tools.

Can I ask why you want to stay with a 110-VAC lathe? I think you are really limiting your options by staying with a 110 volt machine as well as limiting the HP. Personally, in a lathe I highly recommend getting a 3-phase unit because with the 120-degree overlap of the phases it creates a very smooth running machine and no frequency pulsations which is extremely beneficial for low speed threading.

Just a thought/recommendation.

Mike.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - pepi - 07-02-2016

Sure, room mostly need to stay with the bench top style. Thinking about the PM 10 X 22V or 30 could be a good candidate.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 07-02-2016

More wood working.
Three work tables for a lady that makes soap. Still need to make adaptor plates to mount the large swivel casters to the legs.
The legs, aprons and stretchers are Hemlock I sawed a couple of years ago.
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Soon be back at the wood processor.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 07-02-2016

Very nice Greg.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - krv3000 - 07-03-2016

ooooo brill

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 07-03-2016

In my efforts to better organise my workshop, I finally made use of the last of the TV trolleys that I got from a department store several years ago.  They consisted of a base with a cabinet, which housed a video player.  There are two round, hollow columns on which a bar to hold a TV is mounted and positionable for the ideal height.  You will all remember walking into a store and seeing a promotional/instructional video being looped.

One I chopped up a few years ago and used just the base for the grey cupboard into which the drawers unit (I posted a few weeks back) went into.  

Another, I converted to a mobile work space that I can move next to my mill or lathe to give me a surface to hold tools etc:

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The last one I decided to use in a similar fashion, particularly when I am working on cars, as I never seem to have enough space to put things.  I cut one of the columns to sit below the top surface whilst the other extends through.  I'm going to turn up a collar that will sit over this and allow a smaller diameter tube to be positioned and locked off at a specific height.  This will hold the oil drain pan that I made, as it wouldn't fit under my friends truck when it was on my hoist (due to its height).  This will solve that problem.

I made a couple of storage boxes for the base, into which I have put my chain block, shackles and some of my chain.  The black bag holds my slings.

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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - pepi - 07-04-2016

Got to say for a bunch of mechanist you guys do some outstanding wood work. That jointless stuff Greg produces is off the planet.


Thumbs....... up !
Well done,
Greg