Todays Project - What did you do today?

[stevec]

I'd like a video of the forming tool manufacture.

[sasquatch]

Spent most of yesterday and most of today cleaning and reorganizing my shop and book collection. Heck of a job!! Lol

Found three boxes of "Old Gas Engine " magazines, have just over 200 plus about 45 steam engine magazines!!
Puttin these on the net to sell. Gotta make more room!

[rleete]

Wife took her Tracker in for an oil change early last month. She said they told her some shield was falling off, so they stuck it in the back. I know the catalytic converter cover was rattling and I had wired it with coathanger. I assumed the coathanger had rusted off and that was what they removed. Imagine my surprise when I went out to fix it today, and discovered that they had removed the front skid plate!

What the heck is wrong with service people these days?

[sasquatch]

Take it right back and demand they replace it or reinstall it if they still have it!!

[Hawkeye]

I'm building a new exhaust system for my 1965 Honda Trail 90. Got the pipe bent and mounted today. I had to fill it with sand for the tight bend, but that went well. I tried it out with the straight pipe - sounded like tune-up time in the pits at the drags. Who knew that a 90 could bark like that. Definitely needs the muffler.

   

[sasquatch]

Real nice looking bends there Hawkeye!! Yup, she would "BLAT" with that pipe!! Lol

[TomG]

(03-09-2013, 08:22 PM)TomG Wrote: 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

Here's a little video of the form tool in action.

[Micktoon]

Hi Tom , that is class , I could sit and watch or make them just for the sake of it , a simple tool but really works well.
Good job
Cheers Mick

[Mayhem]

So - one down and how many more to go?

Nice work Tom

[TomG]

Thanks Mick, it actually worked better than anticipated.

Darren: Hopefully thousands of them.

Tom