Thread: Your latest project

hi joe great work. i can hardly believe that's the same drill.
paying lobs are great im except im still waiting to get paid for my last one.
have fun
aaron

Originally Posted by jhovel

I'm going to try not to lock it at all in the first instance. Worst case it will oscillate. If so, I can but a lock bolt into the side of the body.



No, Bob, much rarer: a 1982 Honda CX500 turbo (about 5400 made, 137 sold in Australia). Very nice a quirky bike. Did 'the ton' just test riding it between my gate and the letterbox - a bit less than a km....

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Fantastic idea, but where do I find wall space???????
Kryn

same here...but i do need to do something to get it off the floor

I’ve got a drill sharpening attachment for a grinder but it was not long enough to sharpen MT2 drills. To sharpen these longer bits, I made an extension thingo. It’s made from a bit of key stock, a bar that’s been drilled out to slide over the attachment, a bit of angle and a thumbscrew. The angle keeps the drill aligned while the adjustable endpiece is only used to adjust the drill’s stickout. It’s rough and ready but will do for now.

When I get some time, I intend to make a larger attachment that will sharpen drills from about 6mm to 25mm.

Originally Posted by Blu_Rock

I’ve got a drill sharpening attachment for a grinder but it was not long enough to sharpen MT2 drills. To sharpen these longer bits, I made an extension thingo. It’s made from a bit of key stock, a bar that’s been drilled out to slide over the attachment, a bit of angle and a thumbscrew. The angle keeps the drill aligned while the adjustable endpiece is only used to adjust the drill’s stickout. It’s rough and ready but will do for now.

When I get some time, I intend to make a larger attachment that will sharpen drills from about 6mm to 25mm.

A nice method to solve the problem with in between sizes drills. I presume the problem with the big drills (up to 25mm +) is that the front Vee is not big enough for proper support. I made up a rough version myself where I replaced the front Vee with angle and a bracket to attach to the pivoting section. This was before I had a mill. Another job to do at some time.

Do you use this sharpener at the top of the grinding wheel/disk as per instructions. The instructions that came with mine are about as close to the reverse of the true situation as you can get. Took me a long time to work it out. I resorted to laying out grinding angles in CAD to help me think what to do.

Dean

My latest MW project is a bandsaw brake.
This is where I'm up to so far. - still have to transfer the lever movement outside the cabinet.


More details here. https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...93#post1755393

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

A nice method to solve the problem with in between sizes drills. I presume the problem with the big drills (up to 25mm +) is that the front Vee is not big enough for proper support. I made up a rough version myself where I replaced the front Vee with angle and a bracket to attach to the pivoting section. This was before I had a mill. Another job to do at some time.

Do you use this sharpener at the top of the grinding wheel/disk as per instructions. The instructions that came with mine are about as close to the reverse of the true situation as you can get. Took me a long time to work it out. I resorted to laying out grinding angles in CAD to help me think what to do.

Dean

its is a good idea. where do you set it up Dean. ive got mine on about center
aaron

Originally Posted by BobL

My latest MW project is a bandsaw brake.
This is where I'm up to so far. - still have to transfer the lever movement outside the cabinet.


More details here. https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...93#post1755393

That's pretty good. How do you transfer the rotary movement of the lever to compress the disc with the pads? I suspect there is a thread and a large tapped hole involved...

Originally Posted by Gerbilsquasher

That's pretty good. How do you transfer the rotary movement of the lever to compress the disc with the pads? I suspect there is a thread and a large tapped hole involved...

No thread as such involved but something similar - it's all revealed in the link provided.

Originally Posted by azzrock

its is a good idea. where do you set it up Dean. ive got mine on about center
aaron

Good question.

I haven't got it set up at the moment. I had it set up near the top centre of the side of my POS Supercrap grinder, but then I read about setting it on centre towards the front being the better position so I removed it. Before I got around to making the changes a lot of things changed. One of them was buying an A&A grinder which is sheer bliss in comparison. The other grinder had terrible vibration. I think it is the wheels. I intend to have a grinding table, maybe rotary, using the POS for wire wheel etc. I am also thinking about making a disk sander from a GMC wood lathe and sharpening drills with this. The A&A is the only grinder I have access to at the moment and that is just floating around the shop. The other one is blocked off by the desk my proper wood lathe sits on to make room for the CY lathe which is sitting in the middle of the shed until I get time to do the slab.

One of the problems with the standard drill sharpener of this type is that the Vee at the front will not support the flutes of large drills accurately. With MT drills the flutes are about the only thing that you can support as the tang is useless and the taper will vary. A sliding support for the taper is one possibility.

I have a Chinese taper drill set. The 25mm has a chip on the cutting edge. I have not been able to fix it. Luckily I also have a 1" drill of somewhat better breeding.

When I did have this drill sharpener set up I was able to sharpen drills almost as good as new, except that the lines from the grinding, ran along the edge instaed of across it. I will fix that tho.

Dean

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

Do you use this sharpener at the top of the grinding wheel/disk as per instructions.

Hi Dean, I've set it at spindle height on the side of a standard grinding wheel but am setting up a cupped wheel on another grinder to solely use for sharpening bits and endmills.

My latest project is pretty much complete...

Whether something like this is ever truly finished is an unknown...

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Good to see it finished, the colour is growing on me a little...

I can see that giving many more years of service.

Ray

what happend to pink...wasnt that being tossed around

yep never finished ..you'll always find something else that needs doing

Hi Richard,
You don't think you can get away with just showing us a pretty picture do you? We want to see how it preforms, a nice video of it ripping metal off.
Bob

Originally Posted by .RC.

My latest project is pretty much complete...

Whether something like this is ever truly finished is an unknown...

20140316_101559.jpg