Todays Project - What did you do today?

[f350ca]

Made up a bracket to mount a snow plough on a font end loader. This will bolt into the bucket and the plough arms pin into it. The supplied plate was 3/4 inch mystery metal, drilled the holes to 1 1/4 then used the boring head to take them to 1 1/2, was some tough cutting.
Laid the first pass with the mig then ran out of gas, I've become some rough using stick, no final weld photos.

[Mayhem]

(12-30-2013, 12:34 PM)PixMan Wrote: Darren,

Is there any way you could "reverse engineer" any of the parts and let me make them? I'm always looking for an excuse to go make chips for other people.

Thanks Ken - you know how much I like giving you excuses

The main issue is that there are some whole assemblies that are missing, so not only do I not have the part but in many cases I don't have the part it mates with either. The one part that is going to be an issue is the trip feed bracket (see below). I'm hoping a BP one will fit (or could be modified to fit).

The nut for the knee is chewed out. It looks like the knee was raised too high and the screw then tried to cut a new thread. Someone had removed the stops I will probably have to get one made, as I'm guessing that nuts will be in high demand. Unfortunately the material will cost a lot more than the replacement.

This is what the trip feed bracket should look like:
   

The underside of mine. showing the missing bit (actually not showing the missing bit but you know what I mean...).
   

[Mayhem]

Expat - nice work on those parts. I only had to drill 6" on Ken's lathe, so I take my hat off to you for doubling that.

[PixMan]

(12-30-2013, 06:46 PM)Expat Wrote: Thanks, I am having a blast working on these parts with Ken. It's been a long time since I got to play on decent machinery! I used to work on a Scharmann horizontal borer waaay back when machines were operated by humans, not computers!!

I'm having every bit as much fun with this project as you are Neil! It's been a true pleasure working with you in my shop, and I'm glad to be able to share with you.

It seems my lathe is going to need some attention inside the headstock, as the noise it started making is coming from within it. In order to get in there I will have to remove the DRO bracket and that wood shelf a previous owner fitted to the rear of it. I pray it's "fixable" and parts are available. I think it's going to be a problem with the gear changing forks or something near them.

Darren,

Oh yeah...those holes were DEEP! I did have to buy some longer drills, and had those long 3/8" drills resharpened by a friend who owns a really nice Optima drill grinder. They'll have to be resharpened again, as will the new 12mm drill I'd bought because that 316 SS is so tough on tools. Oddly enough, the 25/32" HSS extended length drill I had bought and used to drill through that largest diameter axle seemed to come through the job in perfect shape. Still looks new!

[PixMan]

(12-30-2013, 08:04 PM)Mayhem Wrote:

(12-30-2013, 12:34 PM)PixMan Wrote: Darren,

Is there any way you could "reverse engineer" any of the parts and let me make them? I'm always looking for an excuse to go make chips for other people.

Thanks Ken - you know how much I like giving you excuses

The main issue is that there are some whole assemblies that are missing, so not only do I not have the part but in many cases I don't have the part it mates with either. The one part that is going to be an issue is the trip feed bracket (see below). I'm hoping a BP one will fit (or could be modified to fit).

The nut for the knee is chewed out. It looks like the knee was raised too high and the screw then tried to cut a new thread. Someone had removed the stops I will probably have to get one made, as I'm guessing that nuts will be in high demand. Unfortunately the material will cost a lot more than the replacement.

This is what the trip feed bracket should look like:


The underside of mine. showing the missing bit (actually not showing the missing bit but you know what I mean...).

I don't think I'd have any problem making a new one of those Darren. Though it probably wouldn't look exactly the same, it would work fine. Can you make a drawing of it and send it to me? Same for the elevation nut, though that one would probably be much easier. My only worry about that one would be fitting to the existing screw. I would need very good measurements of the threads, or perhaps it would be easy enough to just make BOTH parts as new.

[PixMan]

(12-30-2013, 08:00 PM)f350ca Wrote: Made up a bracket to mount a snow plough on a font end loader. This will bolt into the bucket and the plough arms pin into it. The supplied plate was 3/4 inch mystery metal, drilled the holes to 1 1/4 then used the boring head to take them to 1 1/2, was some tough cutting.
Laid the first pass with the mig then ran out of gas, I've become some rough using stick, no final weld photos.

Your welds look really nice, and I'm sure that even your stick welding job came out looking better than anything I could do.

That said, we have one member here who welds better than anyone I've ever seen! Just wait until you see welds done by "Allescence", a.k.a. Jennifer. She is so talented it's unreal.

[Mayhem]

(12-30-2013, 08:20 PM)PixMan Wrote: I don't think I'd have any problem making a new one of those Darren. Though it probably wouldn't look exactly the same, it would work fine. Can you make a drawing of it and send it to me? Same for the elevation nut, though that one would probably be much easier. My only worry about that one would be fitting to the existing screw. I would need very good measurements of the threads, or perhaps it would be easy enough to just make BOTH parts as new.

Thanks Ken - I'll draw it up and let you know the final dimensions. I don't care if it is not an exact replica. If I ever sell the machine I can jack up the price for "custom parts"

There is a new member here (stejac) who contacted me, as he has a FV1 as well. He lives in Melbourne but work OS but has kindly agreed to measure up the trip feed bracket, when he is back in Aus (February). I really need to know where the pivot point for the lever is, as well as the size and position of the slot where the lever actuates the plunger.

[PixMan]

(12-30-2013, 08:52 PM)Mayhem Wrote: Thanks Ken - I'll draw it up and let you know the final dimensions. I don't care if it is not an exact replica. If I ever sell the machine I can jack up the price for "custom parts"

There is a new member here (stejac) who contacted me, as he has a FV1 as well. He lives in Melbourne but work OS but has kindly agreed to measure up the trip feed bracket, when he is back in Aus (February). I really need to know where the pivot point for the lever is, as well as the size and position of the slot where the lever actuates the plunger.

I believe you could get an accurate measurement of the pivot point by printing out the photo of the intact one you posted, then measure the center distances of the pivot point to the mounting holes. With those dimensions in hand, measure the center distances of the mounting holes on the broken one and extrapolate the values for a new one.

[Mayhem]

Good thinking Batman!

[PixMan]

Got over to the shop today to make a bushing for the gear blanks I've made in previous days. The guy who's going to cut the gear teeth needed the bore to be 5/8", and the blanks are 20mm. I grabbed a piece of 1020 hot rolled steel, drilled, bored and reamed the 5/8", that same out so close that a .6250 pin just barely slips in. Perfect size!

Then I turned the O.D. to size. Coming down from just over 1", I left .040" for two final passes. I took the first, measured and took the second. I had about .0002"-.0003" of taper, presumably from deflection because I was using a somewhat worn negative rake insert. It worked out so perfect because the bushing has that "ground" feel to it slipping into the bores of the gear blanks. It pushes into each with virtually "zero" clearance! He wanted "no more than .001" or .002" of clearance, it's far less than that.

Another gratifying day of making chips! (Well, just a an hour or so really.)