Thread: What are you making these days? Some fab shop pics from our place

Originally Posted by gear cutter

Attachment 262029 I made a gear.

Hard to tell the scale, is that on a lift? Looks big


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Machining some 316 Stainless Steel castings. Nice looking rings and a cool flange. Machined on my 1983 Okuma LB-15 with OSP-5000L CNC.

Really cool stuff. Thanks for the pictures.

And a little finger reduction while I'm at it.

Hey... Your name is wrong... You're like 9.5Finger

Originally Posted by JP Machining

Testing a prototype lantern I made on one of the rocket stoves I make for a customer.
Attachment 261759
Jeff P on Instagram: “Product testing is fun... #instafabricator #rocketstove #lantern”

I like this.
A lot!

Come on, we are machinists....it’s 9.5001finger

Originally Posted by TeachMePlease

Hey... Your name is wrong... You're like 9.5Finger

Originally Posted by 9finger

And a little finger reduction while I'm at it.

Nice! I have a couple form 1 builds I need to get rolling on!

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Having a go at some unobtainium classic car hinges for the lulz. Have enjoyed working out the tooling so far, next up make the jig for the bottom hinges.

Jig for the top hinge


Trial run for general process, rough as assholes just like the original .

Grippers


Visual structural components (316L)


Intake and fuel rails


Valve covers


Thats a bit of what I "can" show for now.

Mcgyver, I should come see your fab shop some time, I often have the opportunity for larger fab work, and I dont really trust many of the local shops...

macds, is a "visual structural component" something like architectural trim? Fancy modular frame?

Those were the glass mullions for 3wtc in NY.
2 Februarys ago I worked 270 hours in the month, on top of my day job to get approx 250 of them done.

The

Originally Posted by macds

Grippers


Visual structural components (316L)


Intake and fuel rails


Valve covers


Thats a bit of what I "can" show for now.

Mcgyver, I should come see your fab shop some time, I often have the opportunity for larger fab work, and I dont really trust many of the local shops...

All of these pictures are very nice work.

Thank you, I try my best to avoid production work for the simple reason, I feel each part is my "art".
As goofy as that might sound.

Well, here is a job that we tooled/set up last fall.
Job was s'posed to be 350/week x 3 diff parts.
These two were similar. The 3rd one quite a bit shorter with no center section.

My chum was building weldment stands that went with these too.
These are service tools and we had a at the projected volume, but they said that they had been buying them in China and was just trying to source US, so - I guess they would know their market... ???

The customer wanted the first 4500 as fast as we could git them out to fill the US pipeline, but the first run needed to be 150 pcs each.
Good to check that we are all on the same page and whatnot.

We tooled these 2 up on an Acme.
Got the first 150 out with an 80% set-up. Still needed to build roller supports for 3 stations to git rid of all the talk (chatter) from the big form tools.

Was designing the roll supports and was expecting approval or ??? and an order with multiple releases right away, but all we was getting was crickets.
I started dragging my feet on the roll supports until I heard something.
I did hear that the parts were received and approved, but ... was expecting them to be pushing us for shipments, and .. nothing....

These are 2" round 12L14 by around 5" long.
One with a 1" hole, the other with a 3/4 hole.
The knurls were put on second opp in a CNC lathe, but I planned to add that into the Acme, but again - would need to build tooling to make that happen.
(Acme's don't have 2x slides typically)

Most of my chip conveyors are hand crank, and so was the one on this machine.
This was a problem as the conveyor needed to be moving pretty much all the time.

I don't recall the cycle time on this. It could have been 1 minute, or it could have been 30 seconds. (I think 1 minute the more that I think about it)
With 6 spindles running, you could watch the chips pile up before your eyes.
If you let the conveyor set for more than 1 cycle, they would pile up and half way plug up!
So we were getting ready to add a motor and control to the conveyor.

Haven't ran another one since!





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No idea what they are, but they were a bugger to make!

What can I say???

Cheers

Marcus
www.implant-mechanix.com
www.vancouverwireedm.com

Originally Posted by implmex

What can I say???

Cheers

Marcus
www.implant-mechanix.com
www.vancouverwireedm.com

You told me my RFQ was between you and me.

Not to worry TeachMePlease:

Your secrets are safe with me.

Now what size was that again?
Majestic, Unremarkable, or Pathetic?

It's a mad mad world!

Cheers

Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining

Any idea how imbarassing it is to polish a mold for those suckers?
Giant, glorious, veiny bastard...

Pepperidge farms (and me) remembers.

Nice work Marcus