Todays Project - What did you do today?

[f350ca]

Nice repair Brian, many things get tossed because of similar problems.

[DaveH]

Good repair Brian

DaveH

[stevec]

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.

[ETC57]

Very nice save indeed! Brian.
Jerry.

[Mayhem]

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:

   

Hard up against the carriage

   

[sasquatch]

Basic thinking,, good idea!!

[f350ca]

Mayhem, thats pretty much what was done on my lathe when I ordered it with the readouts installed.

[TomG]

I have a large quantity of small brass pins to make. They are 1/8" diameter, 3/8" long and have a 6º 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

[Mayhem]

Very nice Tom - I expect a video of it in action...

[EdK]

(03-09-2013, 08:25 PM)Mayhem Wrote: Very nice Tom - I expect a video of it in action...