Todays Project - What did you do today?

[TomG]

Nice job Greg. It's always scary to go back to a project after a crash. Glad you finally got the upper hand.

Tom

[PixMan]

Now that's a really robust way of holding the part for turning and the best of both worlds. You get the fast truing of the chuck and the secure clamping of a faceplate all in one.

I'm glad it all worked out so well!

Note to myself is it to check my rarely used 12" 4-jaw to see if it has those T-slots like yours. Nice!

Edit: Went looking and found a photo of my 12" 4-jaw chuck mounted on my lathe. No T-slots on mine, rats. It's a high quality Pratt Burnerd which is on a D1-6 adapter plate so it has four socket head cap screws at 45º from the jaws. I wouldn't want to mess with altering it for the rare chance I might need to strap something down as you did. For that I still have a 15" D1-6 direct mount faceplate which has the original Cosmolene still on it. One of these days it'll be needed....

[arvidj]

Yet another of my "Not in the same league as most everything else in this thread" ...

Like everyone else I've accumulated a large number of clamps and locking pliers over the years. They seem to have gravitated to the top of one of the tool boxes proving that chaos [not the theory, the traditional definition 'lacking any order' ...  is alive and well in the garage.

   

For years I wanted to put them under the welding table but that would suggest that I actually had finished the welding table rather than the 50% done thing I use for welding. The next best thing I could think of was a "doesn't have anything on it" spot on the wall ...

   

A quick trip to the basement for some 1/4 inch all thread, some washers and nylon locking nuts, a really long drill bit to go thru the 3 1/2 2x4 and the shelf plus a 5 foot piece of 1/2 galvanized pipe left over from some other project and this is what I ended up with ...

   

Shortly thereafter the top of the tool box looked much better and actually can be used for something useful ...

   

... and the wall now has now evolved to resemble something a little more orderly 

   

As I say, nowhere near what you guys are doing but at least it is made me feel I had made progress in the garage.

Arvid 

[Mayhem]

Don't sell yourself short Arvid - that is a nice solution to a problem. It doesn't need to be chrome plated to be functional.

[EdK]

nice job and I need to do the same. My clamps are thrown it a couple of boxes and it's a pain to dig through them to find the one size I need and of course, that one is always at the bottom.

Ed

[rleete]

Holy cow, that's a lot of clamps.

[Dr Stan]

Lookin' good.

[Dr Stan]

(12-26-2014, 09:44 PM)f350ca Wrote: Ken must have spooked me, so I used the four jaw this time and clamped them down. Pretty sure the last time they shrank from the welding heat, but better safe than sorry.


Drilled and installed.

While I was on the USS Samuel Gompers I accidentally tossed a gate (around 4 to 6 inches) from a gate valve I had mounted an adjustable angle plate on the face plate of a 24X120 Lodge & Shippley lathe, TWICE!  No idea what I did wrong.

BTW, the leading petty officer a First Class MR (AKA foreman) had his desk just behind the lathe surrounded on three sides by flat files.  Needless to say he "was not amused". 

[krv3000]

nice set up

[f350ca]

I welded ends on an aluminum square tube to make an air cleaner box. Quenched the material after welding. Went soft and sticky, horrible to machine. Guess I annealed it, copper anneals if you quench it, does aluminum as well, is it better to let it cool slowly or does it matter. The 1/2 plate I used machines fine not welded.