Thread: Your latest project

Every home should have a crane truck!

How long is the rack?

Stuart

Yes but once you get a crane, you want a bigger one....

Rack is I think 750mm long and is longer then I need.... It came in a 1m length...

I think I will pass on the bevel gears.... This mod took long enough as it was..

It is like the story of the woman who bought a spider to catch a fly...

I need to cut some gears to make a part for the 10EE.... But first I need horizontal milling capacity, but to do that I need to get the mill sorted out... My heavy universal russian dividing head had a faulty worm wheel in it.... Had to pull the spindle to fix that.. So it is fixed now...

All this to cut one gear...

Originally Posted by .RC.

All this to cut one gear...

You could have asked...

Michael

Originally Posted by .RC.

All this to cut one gear...

Happens to me all the time..... usually followed by many years before you find another project that needs whatever it is that you just finished building. By which time you've either cannibalised some of the parts or cleverly put them somewhere safe, if only you could remember where....

PDW

That gear was only 10dp wasn't it?

Although having the support arm is good, why mot just do what I have done to cut my bevel gears? I just made a new arbor from a bit of 30mm car axle, it is 55mm from shoulder to shoulder. Add the length of a standard er40 chuck and I can get to the center of my DH without any chatter or flex in the arbor. The axle is flame or induction hardened to a depth of about 5mm, not sure it this relay helps though or not.

Ew

It is a 16dp actually, I did think about just using a stub arbour, but I wanted to do this to the mill anyway as I have other horizontal work to do...

Also all steel types mostly bend at the same amount if the same load is applied to it... A piece of 1018 will deflect the same as a piece of 4140... The difference is the yield point... 1018 will permanently deform (bend) long before 4140 will...

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

That reminds me Bob,
I have some 25mm plate I should be able to cut a round big enough from if you would like.

Phil

Sorry Phil ,

Talk about foot dragging! Thank you for your kind offer of the steel but somewhere I have a slice of 16mm thick aluminium plate that I reckon would do the job as a table enlarger though it might be easier for me to buy a new slice from Capral than try to find it.

Bob.

G'Day Fellas,

As my eyesight has deteriorated over the years I have been reduced to using my vernier calipers as back scratchers since I can't read the bloody things without a magnifier, finally had a rat through the junk bins and found a lump of Cast Iron, a Barcode Reader Bracket and an old Projector Lens and knocked up a Stand Mounted Magnifier, the lens element used is a Doublet which gives 4 X magnification with a flat field (the distortion in the photo is from the wide angle digital camera lens). Shoulda done it years ago, might even get to wear my calipers out before I cark it.
Regards,
Martin
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Love it Martin
It would be heaps easier to find the magnifier on the bench than my glasses. Well, until the day comes when I need my glasses to find the magnifier

Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

Love it Martin
It would be heaps easier to find the magnifier on the bench than my glasses. Well, until the day comes when I need my glasses to find the magnifier

Phil

Yea ! I've become long sighted as I've gotten older. I need arms 6ft long...

Originally Posted by BaronJ

Yea ! I've become long sighted as I've gotten older. I need arms 6ft long...

plus the need for a megawatt of white light to pick up the detail when a single candle used to be sufficient.

The doublet as a distortion free magnifier is a new insight for me.
Thank you for sharing Martin, I always learn something new here.

Originally Posted by BaronJ

Yea ! I've become long sighted as I've gotten older. I need arms 6ft long...

I have heard that you need to get glasses when you need longer arms to read the paper. I am not there yet but am getting closer.

Dean

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

I have heard that you need to get glasses when you need longer arms to read the paper. I am not there yet but am getting closer.

Dean

No prizes for putting it off. Next time you're near a pharmacy, pick up a pair of +1 or +1.5 readers for $20. I bet you'll love 'em.

Noticed you blokes are starting to have problems with your eyes.
I was the same, eyes got really bad. until, the specialist stated, my only solution was Cataract Surgery, for both eyes.
Had the operation a few months ago & the results are astounding, colours came back & eyesight now is 20/20 vision.
A few days after the job was done it was like turning back time to when I was 20.
Now I can not only see well in the workshop & driving, but can put the cross hairs of my scope on a rabbit at 200yds (or metres).The big variable now is simply the "nut behind the butt". So rabbits foxes & pests beware.
Hopefully, vision underwater, on my next Scuba Dive will also be good.
Very happy !
regards
Bruce