Thread: started my dozer

Chocolate Port what sort of timber is that??

Chocolate Port is a veeeeeeery smooth timber, dark, rich,smooooooth.

Highly recomended for after workshop tools have been put away, and a few beer timbers have been dispatched.
I like Tasmanian Cascade Light timber and the wife likes New Zealand Marlborough region white timber, when that timber has been used up for that day we like to have a little chocolate port timber as a nightcap.
Then we kiss the tritons goodnight and tuck them under their blankies and head off to bed to where I dream of different ways to make sawdust and she dreams of how to stop me bringing sawdust into the house on my shoes.
cheers, billy

Well I won't even try to top that one

Yeh ill pay that one.

ok, finished cutting the track pieces today, (pic 1)(pic 2), managed to get 48 good ones and a few that broke. The bottom two rows in the pic are ones that needed glueing, I'll only use those if I really have to.

Pic 3 is the jig set up on the drill press, as the holes were equidistant from the edges on both sides I drilled the hole through the tongue and just flipped the piece over and drilled through the other side for the two holes in the shoulders.
Was veeeeeeery gentle doing this and cutting with the hand mitre saw to stop breakage. Wondering if a coat of PVA or Titebond 1 over the pieces will give them extra strength? mmm, maybe, dunno.
Taking the pieces to work tonight, if we're quiet I'll start shaping them with the rotary tool.
Cheers, Billy

Glad it was you making them,alot of tedious work, if i had to make them i'd be taking to work and cut them all out on the waterjet all done in about 1/2 hour then just drill the holes.

Billy you have been busy havent you.I think I would have been dreaming about them after making so many then drilling them

Wow, what a task. Well done

Thanks guys,

hey Scotty, can you cut timber on a waterjet?

if so, I think I'll make some more of these. Maybe a hundred or so. I'll need 5000 track pieces, where should I drop the timber off?

cheers, billy

ps, do you have a CNC machine as well, that'll save me some work on the other parts?

Geeez I just found out I missed the $100 bunnys voucher.I been selling cr@p on ebay to raise money and let a free $100 slip away *^%&$%*

Have a look at what this guy is getting up to. OK, its a dozer, but a cut above all others.

DO NOT attempt to read what it says, just drool over the pictures.

http://www.das-baumaschinen-forum.de...=3783&pageNo=1

Billie

A waterjet will cut anything you put in front of it.I have 2 machines at work 1 chinese pump 300mpa 1 americian pump 380 mpa approx 55,000 psi it was the bigest pump in the world then my boss came out with a 420 mpa but now spose to be 450mpa wich should cut approx 150 - 200mm steel.The first waterjet built in the world was used for cutting out disposable nappies and still are to this day.And no i dont have a cnc machine at work yet but when we do it will get a good work out making rims etc for the choppers.

Aussie, a hundred bucks!

Oh well, I'm sure whoever wins it will thank you.

Hope its me.

Work continues with Ozito rotary tool, using a sanding drum to round off the track pieces. Have to be careful as I broke a couple already. Good thing I've got plenty of Titebond.

Will put up pics when rsi has faded and I can pick up the camera again.

cheers, billy

Ok, rsi seems to have gone, as is half the fingernail on my right index finger. Couldn't get a uniform shape using the rotary tool so I went back to using the linisher disc. That worked ok but I slipped on one and sanded my fingernail pretty hard, ouch.

Hand sanded and ran a fine file over the pieces and lined them up to see how they look. Not too bad.

Next step is a small cleat glued across the top of each piece then a little block to keep the tracks in the pulleys glued to the underside. Going to use the same timber for these pieces so it all looks like one piece when finished, then I'll cut the 1/8" dowel and connect the track pieces together.

cheers, billy