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Is it my turn? Anything to do with lathes, mills and other shop tools
^^^I need one of those for my modeling bench...
You can use that for all sortsa stuff. Milling wrench flats on shafts, drilling and tapping shafts, milling hexes for 6-point wrenches.
Keeeeeep iiiiiiit.
Edit: milling multiple keyslots...
We have a 4th axis in one of our CNC mills, it never has a day off it seems.
I would need a larger garage/shop to get something like that. I had to put the boring bar between the mill, compressor and garage door to not lose floor space while having room to use it.
Here is my logan 200 , I would be lost without it ... I do regular lathe turning plus starting to do some milling with it .... here is a project I worked on last yr building a prop shaft bearing support for honda outboard
Nice... I feel the same way about my Logan 820. Is that an offset drilling fixture fitted to the tool post, powered by a drill (or something similar)? If so, I like it. I built a similar device, including an arm to offset the toolpost from is normal mount on the compound, in order to be able to drill into the perimeter of a workpiece in the chuck.
That is exactly what it is .... I built 2 of them , a light duty one that I can run with a 3/8 .... and a heavy one that I can do some light milling with , cut a key way in shaft ECT.
I purchased a lock to hold chuck and my big gear with teeth marked at all the popular patterns for accurate hole spacing.
Will post more pics of some of my projects at a later date.
I prefer to make as opposed to buy, not to save money but because I enjoy the challenge
Inspired by this post I asked for one and lo and behold, my prayers were answered.To change the subject a little my girlfriend brought me home a present from her work. A very small and very cute tool box.
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I think the cat is jealous he doesn't have his own toolbox.
Does anyone here have experience using a pneumatic needle scaler? Are they pretty effective at removing fairly heavy surface rust and if they work well, do they beat up the base metal badly? I’m thinking about getting one to use on the beetle project.
Yup... have used one to clean a very scaly truck chassis. In my experience, very effective at removing surface scale yet doesn't damage the underlying surface too badly. You would not use it on thin material, but suitable for heavier chassis parts.
... available from Amazon starting at $50. Buy one, try it and if you don't like it, send it back to Jeff.
SoI guess the lesson here is don't buy a cheap flow meter for your welder. I went to set up to do some aluminum welding and the gauge on the flow meter blew out when I opened the bottle.
Thought those were traditionally made of glass tube?
There's a plastic outer piece with the markings, and a tube inside. I don't know if a seal got weak, or if the inner tube the ball rides in let go. It made a rather loud pop when I opened the valve.
It says 60 psi on it. Overpressured?
Made this about a year ago, quite a good addition to the garage! I wanted minimal footprint. And its on wheels.
I couldn't say. It worked fine for about 5 years, then yesterday it let go. Maybe when I opened the valve the sudden surge in pressure was too much for old seals.
I like your spray can holder to the left there. 3D printed?
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