Todays Project - What did you do today?

[stevec]

Every old lady and many old geezers deserve friends like us mick! (wait-- I am an old geezer )

[f350ca]

Was that geez or jeez

[stevec]

jeezer?

[EdK]

Got the blank ready for the cross slide lock bolt. 7mm bolts are scarce around here and I didn't need 25 from McMaster so I decided I'd just make the damned thing. It's all ready to cut the M7 x 1 thread. I probably won't get to cutting the thread today but the lathe will be all set up and ready for tomorrow evening when I should have some time to get'r done.

Ed

   

[Micktoon]

Evening Lads, well I did not get too much chance to do much today but made a little progress, I got the rest of the bits of steel cut out and trimmed to be a good fit then ground off the paint where the welding needs to be and cut out the rotted bits of the old deck.





I have a strip of 3 inch wide steel just long enough to do the skirt but will have to cut off the horrible previous repair around the front for it to fit snug, I then plan to weld a bit of round bar around the bottom of the skirt to strengthen it up a bit. I think she will be chuffed to bits with it as she does not know its getting the full works on the deck, just thinks its getting some patches riveted on. Its nice to be able to help someone that age out , I know if a mower place saw it they would write it off to sell a newer one and that would probably be more fragile and less repairable than this one. This one does a good job it just needs a bit of TLC lol.

P.S if anyone is wondering , how many grinders do you need to repair a mower .............. at £10 each from boot sales , I have one for every type of grinding disc lol.

Cheers Mick.

[doubleboost]

Hi
Mick
You find all the good jobs
You can not have to many grinders
John

[DaveH]

Ed, 7mm nuts and bolts are not used much here either.

DaveH

[DaveH]

(07-20-2014, 05:16 PM)doubleboost Wrote: Hi
Mick
You find all the good jobs
John

DaveH

[PixMan]

(07-21-2014, 06:34 AM)DaveH Wrote: Ed, 7mm nuts and bolts are not used much here either.

DaveH

What's the thread pitch on an M7? Will you single point thread it or use a die? I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have an M7 die in my array of tools, but do have threading inserts for 0.5, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.75mm.

[EdK]

(07-21-2014, 08:58 AM)PixMan Wrote: What's the thread pitch on an M7? Will you single point thread it or use a die? I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have an M7 die in my array of tools, but do have threading inserts for 0.5, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.75mm.

Ken,

It's a M7 x 1 thread and I'll be single point threading it. I don't have many dies and the ones I have aren't really any good for cutting threads, only cleaning up existing threads. It's a cheap set of carbon steel tap and dies I got from the home center years ago.

Oh, and the material I'll be threading is 300 series SS.

Ed