The Workshop Progress Thread (2017)

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

I also commissioned a lathe today.

I picked up a bargain minter of a Super 7 back in October and took it to bits to get it home, as a friend gave me a plastic bush that he needed boring out yesterday, I thought it was time to put it back together .

This afternoon I put the toolslide back on, fitted my Dickson QCTP, refitted the motor, set the pulleys up parallel, wired the motor to the junction box, and away it went (well, after a bit of terminal swopping in the junction box).

Bush sorted .

[Tony MarshallParticipant @tonymarshall12301]

Just added a 'proper' saddle clamp to replace the old ring spanner that was always in the way or not there.

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Tonight I got round to assembling the crank case, crankshaft and cylinder assembly complete with pistons to check for tight spots.

[JAParticipant @ja]

Reassembled regulator and everything appeared to run free with end float. Lubricated pivots and set in motion. The clock would not sustain with 6 lb driving weight on a single cord, that is without the pulley. Deeply disappointing.

I am now trying to analyse the whole thing.

I have decided that I will put any further postings on the clock in the “John Wilding Regulator” thread.

JA

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I got the bearing supports finished off in the week

Then made a start on the cylinder and had all the bit sready to solder by Friday Evening.

Stuck it together with some silver solder on Saturday morning

Then machined my "casting"

Finally bashed out a couple of dozen studs and tried a few bits together

J

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Just finished off my S10 OH & gave it a test run…

**LINK**

George.

​p.s. still can't get the hang of putting in video  as a video clip even when embedding link as it says…?

 

Edited By mechman48 on 15/01/2017 22:51:47

Edited By JasonB on 16/01/2017 07:30:06

[Andrew HutchinsonParticipant @andrewhutchinson12802]

It took me a week but I got the Rexon RDM500M mill drill back together again and installed the vise at about 2:30AM this morning. Second time in a row I put the heavy end somewheres I couldn't reach it easily. Had to make a little ramp to ease it down as the driveway was never put in and what was is 8" below the concrete of the garage. Made my new little crane pretty useless. Getting the head up on top of the column was a bit dodgy but luckily it wasn't that heavy. I'll be happy to get back into making chips ASAP – hopefully tomorrow night. I forgot some belts and we ended up using plumbing strap in two places but got lucky and lost little or no paint. Should have thrown something under the strap but didn't think it through.

Andrew Hutchinson

[Curtis RutterParticipant @curtisrutter61973]

Have ordered a new tool post for the ML7 as mine didn't have one. After hearing lots of good things went for a Dickson type from Lynham engineering. Once it arrives will measure up and order a tangential tool holder from eccentric….Now where's the best place to order material so I can start making Swarf!

[Curtis RutterParticipant @curtisrutter61973]

Should add I'm in Hertford, England

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

In no particular order

College Engineering

EKP

Macc

M-Machine

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

As well as the Linishing Disc, I got the kit for a wobble broach from Hemingway. There's a few designs for one of these. Jock Millar did one in MEW back in November 2009 but that's a bit chunky for me. Mike Cox has a nice simple one but the Hemingway one designed by Mircea Halmagiu incorporates 3 ball bearings including a nice thrust bearing.

The tool is offset from the centre line by 1 degree, which I set up using my Wixey. The cutter has 2.5 degrees relief and I was able to use the Wixey again to tilt the head of my mill to the appropriate angle.

Seems to work very nicely, if somewhat unspectacular – it just feeds in!

That's a 5mm allen key snugly fitting in the socket.

I'm set up now to have a go at making some MiteeBite type fixings for my little CNC mill.

Cheers,

Rod

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Might not look like it, but there is some traditional machine work in these suspension units. I still need to add the 1/8" rods through the middle of the springs etc. This is actually the inside as the nuts go on the outside.

Neil

[Curtis RutterParticipant @curtisrutter61973]

 

Cheers JasonB, will help pass time during tonight's shift

Edited By Curtis Rutter on 16/01/2017 21:47:57

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

On Tuesday I cut and pickled these four bits of 1/4"ish black bar for the crosshead guides on teh horizontal steam engine.

Did the machining on Wed & Friday evening and today finished them off by filing the curve to the stiffening webs and drawfiling the machining marks away. The extra work involved will milling the black bar down to size seems to have paid off as there does not seem to have been any unwanted movement.

J

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Nice work Rod. I've been watching Randy Richard making this Hemingway kit on his Youtube Channel. It's on my list to do, not least as they seem to cost hundreds of coupons to buy a commercial one. Simple enough concept.

Did you buy the whole kit including materials – or just the drawings? I dunno how it works.

Murray

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Hi Murray,

I bought the whole thing – didn't really need the lumps of 7/8 and 1" steel but the 3 bearings and the screws are in the kit as well. BAZ, who posts on here from time to time, put me onto it.

There is also a length of 8mm silver steel. I bored the the holder for the bits a nice snug fit and was very pleased with myself. Unfortunately, after hardening, the shank of the bits had swelled to 8.03mm so I had to put the holder back in a collet and bore it out again

Cheers,

Rod

Edited By Roderick Jenkins on 22/01/2017 20:39:21

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

Made a start on some motorcycle wheel spindles in EN16T, Had to turn 16mm bar down to 0.624". Got the lathe/tailstock dialled in nicely to better than a thou over 11" and a superb finish using DCGT tips.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I've had a rusty bit of 22mm steel hanging about for ages so thought I would use it up to make 3 arbors to hold the gear blanks for the Ruston. Also set up the division plates on the rotary table so looks like I'll be gear cutting tomorrow.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Two 33T Mod1 gears 5/16" wide cut before dinner

And a 66T for afters

I took a chance and tried some gear cutters from the land of the rising SIEG which cost just over £6 each, seemed to work OK though the one for the 33T was just starting to need a bit more effort on the last few teeth, don't know what steel it was but it was not as nice to turn as the blank for the 66T so somthing a bit harder.

At this sort of price they can almost be regarded as throw away and I would still be in pocket as two 33T gears from HPC would have cost me almost six times as much as the cheapie cutter.

They are a bit smaller at 22mm bore so as it was just a try out I did not want to buy a 22mm arbor so just knocked up a reducer that allowed me to mount them on the end of my existing 1" arbor.

J

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

the last gear was the 15T for the governor

Also turned and milled the large gear to look like the original casting then gave it a good seeing to with the dremel to knock off the corners and add a bit of texture.

Spent the rest of the day watching the live streams of teh Cyclo-Cross World Champs, snow, ice, mud and ladies in lycra – what more could you want

[Andrew HutchinsonParticipant @andrewhutchinson12802]

Here's a little loco part:

 

 

It's one half of the grid section of a an EMD FT loco dynamic brake housing. Needs one slit across the middle to .01 with a .008 slitting saw and before I can try casting it. I believe this is a phase III version as the locos it will go on were made in 1944. It's N scale (1:160th) and part of a suite of parts to represent the much modified Northern Pacific versions that roamed Western Washington right up until 1970 and the BN merger. A friend wants to have all 11 ABBA sets for the 1955 Sumas branch layout he is preparing to build. I had previously made some of the parts out of Styrene to fit the IMRC model but decided to do all new masters in brass. The little flange is .004" thick to (hopefully) ensure it casts. The grid was done manually with a .004 thou engraving cutter but other parts with trickier organic surfaces have been or are being done with CNC. Did the later number boards and an aborted injection mould that way. The pilot is a bit of a pain and testing my ability to draw the surfaces. I think I am going to fix my probe and use it to figure out the mounting area on the IMRC shell. Present work is centred around building a buck and then forming the metal (.015"  ) and laminating .002" shim embossed with the bolt heads. There are easier methods but I need to use this method elsewhere so I'm trying to work out the bugs where possible. Need to work on my soldering amongst other things and one of the reasons I ran back to something easy for this afternoon's work.

Here's a photo of one of the units in question care of Rick Horne:

Canada is just behind the shed. My house only an hour or so bike ride away.

 

Not today's output but I made a pair of these right angle brackets for my mills. Just a rough copy of the Sherline ones – that way I know they fit!

Will have to make an adjustable too one as the cast iron one I have is too heavy to keep taking home from the shop in my pack.

 

Andrew Hutchinson

BC Canada

 

Edited By Andrew Hutchinson on 30/01/2017 06:33:50

Edited By Andrew Hutchinson on 30/01/2017 06:34:16

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Back onto the Horizontal steam engine this week. Got the conrod made on friday evening then the bearings, keep and studs yesterday morning.

Started teh cross head last night and completed that today along with the pivot pin then did the piston and one end of the rod, won't complete that until I can check lengths from the assembled engine.

J

Edited By JasonB on 05/02/2017 15:33:21

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

Looks very nice Jason. What's the reason for the blue colouring on the picture?

Brian

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Not sure, something was throwing the automatic off on the camera, pics taken at the lathe were fine.

J

[ASFParticipant @asf]

Finished off a log and brush moving trolley (for tree surgery) by painting it yesterday and testing it out today.

Rubber handles on order from China

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