Thread: Tried and True Machine

Hey for name like tried-and-true your machines are too new.

Sorry there should have been a smilie after that

Originally Posted by IAMATT

Sorry there should have been a smilie after that

I'll forgive yah...............




....this time.

Keeping the repost rolling........

Stuff just keeps rolling along. Shortly after the slab was poured, the framers showed up to start whackin nails. The building is 40' X 60' with a 12'6" sidewall. The main overhead door is a 14' X 11'. A friend of the family was hired for the the shop framing. I hired him to basically complete the shell of the building, leaving the interior for me to finish. He has a small crew and they really move. They had the walls framed and rafters set on Monday/Tuesday.

FRAMING:



VIEW DOWN THE DRIVE:



They would have been done by the end of the week, but were rained out on Wednesday. Continuing on a Thursday was put off because they were going to rent a lift and wanted it for at least three days. So they finished up the following week on Thursday before noon and were outa there.

THE STEEL:






I had to wait another day for the overhead door install.



View from my office(where the house will be):



More to come................

Working on these right now. Repeat stuff. Tricky part though. Wall thickness of .075". They are a motor housing for a small 2hp 3PH motor. Saw. Face/bore side one. Face/bore side two. Turn OD. Engrave and countersink. Easy peasy right?



To turn these without distortion, I needed to make some special chuck jaws. I have an extra 8" chuck lying around and it's handy for fabbing up specialty jaws.



All tacked up and ready for weld.



Welded.



Now I needed to cut them apart so I set them up on the mill.



Using an 1/8" EM, I cut almost all the way through. The little material left was quick work for a thin cutting wheel in a die grinder.

Why not just toss them in the bandsaw?


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Ox

Originally Posted by Ox

Why not just toss them in the bandsaw?


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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

Kinda hard to hold onto in the saw(horizontal) and I don't have a vertical. Clamped 'em in the chuck on the 4th, couple lines of code, and done.

Cut apart.



Mounted up and finish bored.



Makin chips. Face and bore both ends.



Now I need to turn the OD. Two pucks that the tube slips onto. One clamped in the chuck. The other is used with the tailstock to clamp/support the part. Worked quite well.





Ooooo....shiny.

I have several jaws welded like that and some with just rings, cant beat machinable jaws for holding onto weird stuff. With some of the repair work I do rather than new parts you have to get real creative with work holding. Thanks for sharing yours.

You know it is amazing how many shops I go to that dont have a vertical bandsaw, I wouldnt know how to work with out mine.

Charles

Forgive me for asking a dumb question...i can run a manual lathe but largely a mill guy.
Is the tailstock pushing on the cap, whats holding the part to the chuck? How aggressive can you be with this sort of set-up?

μ

The tailstock can be turned up to put a lot of force on the part. But, it should not take much to hold it if he doesn't go crazy on the OD turn.

Thats what i was thinking, but I didnt want to assume. Nice looking setup.

Last but not least, they have to go in the mill for some engraving and some countersunk holes.

This installment is framing up my office area and utility room and stuffing insulation. The utility room will house the hot water boiler for heat, hot water heater, and a toilet. I'll be putting in a nice large wash sink right on the out side of the room. I'll sneak my optical comparator and some inspection equipment in the office also. I'm looking for a nice 3' x 3' or 4'x4' surface plate to set in there too.

The kids took a quick spin before the floor became cluttered.



OFFICE/UTILITY FRAMING:





No vertical studs here either. The inside/outside of the office will also be steel like the rest of the shop. What's really ironic is the size of the office/utility area is about the same square footage and dimensions as the first floor space I had when I started way back when.

INSULATING:



Don't worry Safety Police. I know, I know, no mask, long sleeves or goggles. I only stuffed a dozen or so pieces of fiberglass before calling it a day here. Chill out.

I got all this done the next day by myself. I finished up by 1:00 in the afternoon. I was a blur of cutting and stuffing. I hate insulating.

Shouldn't need any of those safety req's with that white Johns Manville stuff eh?


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Ox

Had the Minions out in the shop again. They had a lot of fun wrapping parts in paper and putting them into boxes. They where a little disappointed when they ran out of parts.

Not using dollar bills?


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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

Originally Posted by Ox

Not using dollar bills?


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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

We don't all make the big bucks like you........

I'm a tight wad. I use all my old MSC catalogs to wrap parts. The pages are kinda like tissue paper, wraps tight and packs close. That's my contribution to recycling.

My tool grinder wraps carbide in McMaster catalog pages.

I forgot whether you had hooked up your in-slab heating or not... IF you did how is it doing with all the cold weather this year?