Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Mayhem]

Got a couple of storage jobs sorted out.  

First was a storage unit for lubes and cutting fluids, as the shelving unit I had wasn't quite wide enough, nor was it strong enough.  I have quite a few 20L tubs at my other shop, which will be moving over here soon.

   

Second was a cupboard that I have had for a while but the shelves I have are too wide.  So I designed a drawer unit to go inside and a friend of mine who owns a cabinetmaking business cut everything up for me.  Kind of like an Ikea flat-pack

           
   
   

I wanted something that I could lock my hammers, pry bars and bolt cutters in.  I already have a filing cabinet that I lock my drills and grinders in.  I got the drawer for the pry bars and bolt cutters finished but I need to drill the holes for the hammers to slot into the bottom drawer.  The drawer will function the same as the pry bar one, with a number of holes through which the handles drop into.  I need to get some handles and then I can call this done.

Not as nice as the cabinets that Greg makes but I'm happy.

[Black Forest]

(06-03-2016, 08:00 PM)f350ca Wrote: Time to bore you again with wood.
After fixing the planer, I was feeding the laminated sides through and what I thought was a nail reared its ugly head. Shoot I said. Pulled the cover off the planer and couldn't find the missing chunk of blade. Got the awl out to check the nail, and low and behold it was a bullet. Luckily not steel jacketed.

I shot six times Greg.  Did you find the other five.

[TomG]

I messed around a bit with some electrons today. The old house DSC security system crapped out a while back so I decided to upgrade it to something from the 20th. century. I opted for an ELK M1 system because of it's flexibility and ease of expansion. Right now it's just a really solid security system with 13 wired zones and a motion detector, but I have an ethernet card on order so I can access the system from the WWW, or a cell phone. That will also allow me to expand the system to include home automation. I plan to connect the fire alarms, thermostats, some video, and a good amount of lighting to it as well. It is also capable of some pretty sophisticated voice reporting, so I'll have to pull some wire for some speakers.

Tom

[Mayhem]

Insert for hammer drawer finished. 

   

[Pete O]

Now you have an excuse to buy two more hammers.

[Pete O]

Finished this little job this afternoon- a nut for the horizontal spindle on my mill.
Cut the hex to fit a 1 3/8 spanner that was languishing on my shelf (turned the end down to the large diameter of the hex first)
   
Cut it off on the bandsaw- I at last seem to have the saw cutting nice and square
   
Chucked it back in the lathe, drilled and bored it and cut the 56/64 l/h 14tpi whitworth thread.
   
It fits!
   

A couple more arbor bushes to make, and I'll actually be able to use the horizontal mill as a horizontal mill.

So, should I harden this nut? Material is 4140 s/h.

[Mayhem]

Nice work Pete. Personally, i wouldn't bother hardening the nut but I would put a decent chamfer on the top.

[Highpower]

(06-06-2016, 07:39 AM)Mayhem Wrote: ...I would put a decent chamfer on the top.

+1

Bleeding knuckles were the first thing I thought of when I saw that. Great looking part, but it's also a sharp looking part. (Not the good kind.)

[awemawson]

Case harden it, don't through harden.

[Pete O]

Ok- another question- what machining method would be best to chamfer the nut? Belt grinder is the easiest that comes to mind.
Also what technique to case harden 4140? Ok that's two questions.