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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 03-07-2013
Nice repair Brian, many things get tossed because of similar problems.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 03-08-2013
Good repair Brian
DaveH
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - stevec - 03-08-2013
Way to go Brian, that's one of the aspects of this hobby/trade I love. Being able to fix things for folks who would otherwise be told to buy new.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - ETC57 - 03-08-2013
Very nice save indeed! Brian.
Jerry.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 03-09-2013
Well today I did some work on my lathe and one of the tasks was to make a stop to prevent me running my carriage into my tailstock, an damaging the scale I have. I don't have a DRO on this lathe, just a basic magnetic readout on the x-axis. Nothing flash about this job, just a 3/8-16 carriage bolt screwed into the tailstock - quick, easy and it does the job:
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Hard up against the carriage
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - sasquatch - 03-09-2013
Basic thinking,, good idea!!
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 03-09-2013
Mayhem, thats pretty much what was done on my lathe when I ordered it with the readouts installed.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 03-09-2013
I have a large quantity of small brass pins to make. They are 1/8" diameter, 3/8" long and have a 6ยบ on them and a radius on the small end. Since I find making more than one or two of anything mind numbing, I decided that making a form tool would be worth my time. I came up with a simple design using two identical pieces of hardened O1 with the form cut in them and a half of a 3/16" cylindrical bore to align the two halves of the tool and mount them on a 3/16" dowel. The tool works like a pencil sharpener. It is held in the tailstock of the lathe and fed into a piece of 1/8" brass to cut the taper and radius, once the taper and radii are formed, the part is cut off with a parting tool. I figure that using the parting tool as a stop for the stock, and my fancy form tool, I should be able to crank out a finished pin every 15 seconds or so. I can't wait.
Tom
![[Image: 001_13.JPG]](http://photos.imageevent.com/tomgriffin/generalstuff/large/001_13.JPG)
![[Image: 002_11.JPG]](http://photos.imageevent.com/tomgriffin/generalstuff/large/002_11.JPG)
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 03-09-2013
Very nice Tom - I expect a video of it in action...
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 03-09-2013
(03-09-2013, 08:25 PM)Mayhem Wrote: Very nice Tom - I expect a video of it in action...
