Thread: What are You Scraping On??

Originally Posted by Other Brother

I buy unique cast iron

Daryl

What is that first one for? The yellow one. Some sort of funky waffle iron?

Mark

Originally Posted by Other Brother

Well, unfortunately I been busy packing stuff to ship so I haven't been able to do any scraping therapy. I sure need it after the last couple of days.

Daryl, Sure makes me so proud to see scraping like that from one of the kids :-) I saw something on here I think it was last week and it was referring to someone selling scraping tools in MI and as I looked at the long list I figured it was you?? They said it was in MI...I figured who else in MI that can scrape that good? lol

So your selling some surplus or are you slowing retiring? Did Ed Jr. tell you I met him and his dad at the IMTS show in the Dapra Booth over 40 years ago? He also got some lessons over the years at the show....lol. Back then he and his Dad Ed Sr. who was a service tech for Pratt & Whitney and his dad could hand scrape 40 PPI. When Ed Sr retired he started ES Dyjack Co. and that's when his fun began. At one time ESD Company was the largest BIAX distributor selling scraping tools then anyone on the USA. I consider Ed Jr. one of the kids too....lol

Originally Posted by rotarySMP

What is that first one for? The yellow one. Some sort of funky waffle iron?

Mark

Mark if you would like to find out what they do drive over to Laakirchen, Austria In October when I will be teaching 3 classes inside 2 professional machine rebuilders shop. Biax is sponsoring these again
This like is from last year. Austrian scraping class - novenber 2018

Originally Posted by rotarySMP

What is that first one for? The yellow one. Some sort of funky waffle iron?

Mark

The photo is of the bottom of a set of safety parallels. They are tall parallels with a wide base that makes them more stable and therefore safer to use. The interlaced fingers allow them to be used close together and means they take up less room when stored.

Charles

Originally Posted by Richard King

Daryl, Sure makes me so proud to see scraping like that from one of the kids :-) I saw something on here I think it was last week and it was referring to someone selling scraping tools in MI and as I looked at the long list I figured it was you?? They said it was in MI...I figured who else in MI that can scrape that good? lol

So your selling some surplus or are you slowing retiring? Did Ed Jr. tell you I met him and his dad at the IMTS show in the Dapra Booth over 40 years ago? He also got some lessons over the years at the show....lol. Back then he and his Dad Ed Sr. who was a service tech for Pratt & Whitney and his dad could hand scrape 40 PPI. When Ed Sr retired he started ES Dyjack Co. and that's when his fun began. At one time ESD Company was the largest BIAX distributor selling scraping tools then anyone on the USA. I consider Ed Jr. one of the kids too....lol

Thanks Rich! Yes, we have had many conversations about you, lol. I keep going back for new brushes, and keep thinking these should last longer, but time certainly flies when you are having fun.

Originally Posted by CBlair

The photo is of the bottom of a set of safety parallels. They are tall parallels with a wide base that makes them more stable and therefore safer to use. The interlaced fingers allow them to be used close together and means they take up less room when stored.

Charles

Charles, you nailed it! Those turned out real nice and I actually showed the guy with a tenth indicator that they were zero, end to end and matching. I looked up a patent number and found it online. Will try to find the image and post it here. These parallels were manufactured by Magic City Mach. Tool Co. in Muncie Indiana, 1940's.

The yellow vee blocks I probably had over 100 hours into them. True 90 degree and every dimension matched to one ten thousandths on both from the bottom key-way. I think I sold them for $50, talk about a labor of love.

I live next to the wrong people. ()

Thanks guys. So after the first batch of Waffles, you have to rescrape them
Mark

Originally Posted by Other Brother

Thanks Rich! Yes, we have had many conversations about you, lol. I keep going back for new brushes, and keep thinking these should last longer, but time certainly flies when you are having fun.

BIAX says when the brushes wear out to soon, the wiring to the outlet or your extension cord is to light or small. Try using a bigger wire size and see what happens.

Wow, and I told my wife it was because I was working so hard. Thanks Rich, she doesn't have to know any different. I'll try it, good tip!

Hello to all, I’m new to the forum but am really enjoying the content and all the information available. Currently started on one of my Fadals replacing the ball screws, turned out getting a little deeper than I thought. Ended up doing a complete turcite replacement also. While checking out the geometry the top of the saddle had about .005 wear,warp and upon removing the saddle the turcite was loose on the bottom and coming out and some missing. With the mill kind of stuck in th corner of the shop and my sel being one of stubbornness and I’m going to do this myself I watched the Russians scrape-grinding hard ways. So I practiced on a couple of bars and dove in head first in shallow water. a couple of in process photos this worked surprisingly it worked quite well. I lapped in the ways after spring them to get a smooth surface for the turcite and it came out quite nice. I am fortunate to have a wide array of machines I can use for rebuilding machine parts as I do a lot of machineing on large Diesel engines along with job shop work.

Hello,

Just to say something about what I've been scraping! I have not done much over the last couple of years, but a triangular 32" new old stock fresh of the planer showed up on the equivalent of Craig's list for 20€ which was too good to pass up! So I scraped in in one side and made some handles for it. I also milled scraped and painted the 12" that I bought from Kev after the 2017 class at Andrew Mawson's. In the last Photo, there is also the 72" that I bought From Graham Stabler last spring.

Matt longtime no chat. I hope your well now that your retired? Here is a couple of great pictures of Matt I took at that class. :-)

Hi Richard,

Retirement suits me, it's just I seem to have less time than ever! I'm trying to work my way through a backlog of projects. I've been a bit bogged down with building work on my workshop/home, never ending! I'm working towards the rebuild of my Edgwick Lathe hence the straight edges! I intend to do it a bit at a time, as I don't want it immobilized too long! I will probably have to build a sledge to run a grinder to re-grind the bed ways! This will take time! Lots to do!!
All the best, Matthew

Currently working on a Eagle surface grinder. I got the knee scraped in, here's the z-axis way on the knee.



Y axis is pretty good too little bit more to do on it but the bearing is good already.



But the x-axis ways on the top of the cross slide are giving me a hard time. It's difficult getting a nice consistent scrape across the oil grooves. This had a big hump in the middle so a lot of scraping to get it this good. I'm getting fed up with it now.



Then I got this to contend with. All I can do is scrape over it I think. Might scrape it in then fill the void with epoxy afterwards to stop it carrying dirt.

As far as scraping the oil groves, low next to them is better then sharp surface or to flat as the oil can wedge or go out of them better when they are tapered edges. You can also change the attack angle near them so your scraping more parallel to them say a 60 degree and not a 45 degree. The score is from lack of lubrication as it does not go all the way out to the ends. If that area of the way is not exposed to the air anytime. You may want to leave it alone and call it an extra oil groove. in order to fill it you will have to grind down into it making the bottom wider then the top to anchor it in, like they do at the dentist office on a cavity filling. Your checkerboard looks good Pete. :-) Happy New Year

Thanks Rich yes the whole groove is land-locked so I'll just scrape over it. The adjacent bolt-on gib also had similar damage but I milled it out then scraped that flat.