Thread: Your latest project

Hi Bob,
Very neatly done One of the three bottom end H&F bandsaws is now at the top of my to get list, and seeing mods like this is great. I take it the adjustment bolts control the twist of the blade guides?

Hi Bob,
Good idea, I should have made myself something like that, they can be painful to adjust.

Stuart

Hi Ewan, Stuart
Thanks for your reply's.Ewan you are correct the bolt does control the blade twist. As you can see the design of the saw has at each end individually controlled bearing holders.This results in the blade nearly always cutting through the job on a twist,not good for blade life or an accurate cut. On the 50mm * 50mm RHS I was cutting and needing a nice square even cut it was very difficult to adjust it. If you can visualize the tube in the vise the angle of the blade when it first starts the cut means that only front edge (closest to the vices fixed jaw) makes contact, the angle of that bearing carrier determines the angle of that cut. When the cut has progressed across the top of the job the rear bearing carrier is keeping the blade at a different angle, you end up with two entirely different angles on your cut. With the modification in place you can do a cut, check your angles and make vernier like adjustments at either or both ends, very nice. Stuart this little modification is a frustration fixer, you will enjoy it.
Bob

Not as elaborate or complex as some project in this thread, but this jig plate took 3 weeks to make.
So many holes and then i decided to surface grind both sides - atleast it is flat and has a really nice shine to it

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Basic idea is that the front of the Jig lines up with the bed front.
I have a number of 10mm bolt holes which can be used to clamp the work down and the 6mm reamed holes have dowels inserted and provide a square reference point relative to the front face of the bed. So i can then change material in and out of the mill knowing it is square everytime to the X and Y axis. The Jig plate is held down with clamps on the ends, but i may change this by drilling out two of the 10mm bolt threads so i can insert a bolt through it into a t-slot underneath. Lets see if i hit the clamps!!!!

Originally Posted by seafurymike

..this jig plate took 3 weeks to make.

And a very nice job too!
I presume you started with black steel plate and went from there, or was it something else? Also, how thick is the plate?

I need to make one of these because my Arboga mill-drill has only two T-slots, with 120mm of unslotted surface between them. Without fastening points down the centre of the table many jobs end up attached inconveniently at the front or back.

However I am still working on the Douglas project, and when that is working Job No 1 will be to flatten a piece of black MS plate as a to serve as a jig plate for the Arboga.

Cheers,
Bill

Hi Bill,

Yes its boiler plate. I think it started out as 1/2" and is closer to 10mm now that I milled and the surfaced each side.

I've had the (not so pleasant) joy of working nights for the last week and a half doing a "defit" for a shop in a local shopping center. I have had to remove all the fixtures, flooring, ceiling and replaster the walls ready for the next tenant. Of course it was up to me to dispose of all the waste, most of which went in a skip, but a few cabinets with drawers, casters, a decent bench top and some large pigeon hole type shelving all found its way into the shed.
Out of all the bits i have put together a mobile set of 8 drawers with a solid top, in which i am putting all my measuring gear, drills, taps dies, bolts etc etc. The plan is that it can be moved to whatever machine i'm working at so everything i could possibly need is at hand, as well as having a small whiteboard close by. I just have to make a mic stand to go on the top and i'm done.
The only things i had to buy were some decent runners, extra ally for the handles and some non slip drawer liner.





And some of the pigeon holes, i have another that is 4x4 that will go in the metal area.

Nice drawers Ewan.

Yes, I like that.

Are they wood ? They look like it. I prefer wood to metal - less noise and condensation risk. Plus the oil soaks in and gives it that homely feel and smell

Cheers

Rob

Very nice indeed,but theres a problem.
One can see bits of benchtop between the clutter. Dear, Oh dear! This will never do.

Do you realize the position you have placed the rest of us in?
Our SWMBO,s could walk by our computer screens at any moment and see your relatively clean bench and all of a sudden,this becomes the bench mark standard
for the rest of us,

Seriously, it is a great pick up and earns the recycling merit badge as well.

Grahame

Originally Posted by Grahame Collins

Dear, Oh dear! This will never do.

Do you realize the position you have placed the rest of us in?
Our SWMBO,s could walk by our computer screens at any moment and see your relatively clean bench and all of a sudden,this becomes the bench mark standard
for the rest of us,

Grahame

ditto...we'll be blaming you Ueee if we are made to follow suit

those mobile draws look the go....mmmm? another idea for me

Don't worry, if you looked at them now you wouldn't be seeing any benchtop......
Its working well so far, i just need to get used to where everything is. I still thing i will run out of room in another year or 2 of tool buying....

A quickie here...

Had to remove valves out of a stuffed head, had no tool to do the job...

Got some alum, drilled a hole in it.... Milled a slot to allow access.... Used it in a G-Clamp.. Hey presto quick and dirty valve spring compressor.

There's a way if there's a will RC. Nice improvisation.

Nice bit of lateral thinking .RC.

Phil