Todays Project - What did you do today?
Nice job Greg, Thumbsup 
A lot of holes Big Grin 
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DaveH
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That's probably Tom Lipton, Oxtoolco YouTube channel.
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Think you might be right Al. Looked like a cool jig base.
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Greg
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Greg,

Is that an aluminum alloy or steel?

Ed
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Aluminum Ed, wish I had a lot more of it or at least knew what the alloy was.
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Last night I got the Jeep ready for our monthly Jeep club trail run.  I pulled the Jeep in the shop and checked the fluids and ran a vacuum through it.
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I then put it on the lift and gave the undercarriage a good once over.
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A few months ago I machined a base plate to mount a 3-jaw chuck to my 8" Vertex rotary table for a project.  I had to improvise to mount the chuck as I didn't have any T-nuts that were the correct size.  I didn't want to place an order for only four T-nuts so I just decided to machine them.

I had some time left over last night before the wife got home so I grabbed a piece of bar stock from my scrap pile and clamped it in the mill vise.
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Taking it down to size.
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Now that it is to size I can drill/tap the threads and take the two sides down.
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Hopefully tonight I can take a half our or so and finish them up.

Mike.

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(11-18-2015, 09:48 AM)f350ca Wrote: Aluminum Ed, wish I had a lot more of it or at least knew what the alloy was.

Maybe???   17428
Willie
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(11-20-2015, 02:02 PM)Highpower Wrote:
(11-18-2015, 09:48 AM)f350ca Wrote: Aluminum Ed, wish I had a lot more of it or at least knew what the alloy was.

Maybe???   17428

Could be, but if it was to be a helicopter part I'd expect it was rolled material to get grain. Do they cast anything in n aircraft chassis or is it all billet work.
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Greg, what makes you think that piece of material was originally intended to become a helicopter part? Just curious. I would think a plant like that would make a lot of their own tooling fixtures as well. Chin

I've replaced a bunch of of aircraft parts, but can't say I've ever made any, so I don't have a clue if they use any cast aluminum for making/forging parts. Blush

That is a nice plate you've got there however. Smiley-signs107
Willie
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What did I do today? A lot of this:

Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash   Bash

Spent all day trying to find a 12,46 x 28 x 8mm ball bearing. (6001/012Z)
NOT HAPPENING!   Smiley-signs131

Has anybody tried grinding the ID of the inner race on a deep groove ball bearing before? (sigh...)

Oh how I would love to get my hands on the Honda engineer(s) that came up with that one!   You Suck
Willie
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