thompy
11th June 2012, 04:02 PM
So i had some sentimental (my pops wood) and dammaged (borers) cut into some blocks (thanks to Neil *Dai-Sensei* for the expert cuts:cool:) to see if i could fashion some salt an pepper mills. I used one of my "round-to-it" cards to spend the day on it.
It's not finished to my usual standard for a couple of reasons, i thought it was a throw away halfway through, but i managed to fix what i messed up dimensionally. Learnt a LOT doing it. and i'll make its mate later on during the week.
A couple of things came up while doing this and i have a couple of questions, i used medium ca to void fill and tried to be neat (i failed at neat:-), should i have airblown the leavings out and fresh filled them? or leaving the sandlike grains in place as i did and hope the ca "got in" as i did. And whats an appropriate flood method? coat it numerous times sanding between and leave it, or try and fill it all in one go?
When drilling with the bits (a spade and couple of speedbore bits) i found the shanks only just long enough to drill the 25 through the middle on my drillpress, do you guys use extension bits? or is it better to lathe drill? again with an extension bit?
In a breif researching i found the crushgrinds, how much more work are they than these regular types? do i need the special chisel? extra drillbits? more skill? i've heard they're a better quality mechanism so i'm interested to see how they are different in the basis of machining.
And lastly, sorry Greg (Plantageon), i couldn't wait, got impatient, bit the bullet bought the drills and had a crack at em:D.
Neal.
It's not finished to my usual standard for a couple of reasons, i thought it was a throw away halfway through, but i managed to fix what i messed up dimensionally. Learnt a LOT doing it. and i'll make its mate later on during the week.
A couple of things came up while doing this and i have a couple of questions, i used medium ca to void fill and tried to be neat (i failed at neat:-), should i have airblown the leavings out and fresh filled them? or leaving the sandlike grains in place as i did and hope the ca "got in" as i did. And whats an appropriate flood method? coat it numerous times sanding between and leave it, or try and fill it all in one go?
When drilling with the bits (a spade and couple of speedbore bits) i found the shanks only just long enough to drill the 25 through the middle on my drillpress, do you guys use extension bits? or is it better to lathe drill? again with an extension bit?
In a breif researching i found the crushgrinds, how much more work are they than these regular types? do i need the special chisel? extra drillbits? more skill? i've heard they're a better quality mechanism so i'm interested to see how they are different in the basis of machining.
And lastly, sorry Greg (Plantageon), i couldn't wait, got impatient, bit the bullet bought the drills and had a crack at em:D.
Neal.