You don’t by chance have those midget strippers hanging around those polls do ya..as always.. asking for a friend..
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You don’t by chance have those midget strippers hanging around those polls do ya..as always.. asking for a friend..
Sorry, the fair is in town, so I had to give te back. LOL
Got this all made up to reinforce my dipping garage door. 3/8x 3/4 x24. Started as 1" wide. Drilled and tapped 10-32. Going to be a bit til I can install it.
Broke tibia fibula on Monday and have a tibia rod in my leg now. More details in the that's not gonna buff out thread.
Broke tibia fibula on Monday and have a tibia rod in my leg now. More details in the that's not gonna buff out thread.
That looks like a 12" thick concrete wall between the interior and exterior steel, true? Then maybe a 12" cap on top? That is a heck of a "storm shelter"!
Exactly. 12" 4000psi concrete on a 24x36 footer and 8" slab with 1/2" rebar. 1/4" plate inside and out tied together with 1/2" rebar every 12 inches.
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Sorry to hear about your injury, hope it heals well.
But you despots know I have to ask, did you fab your own tibia rod?
No. Most of what I work with is inconel. I don't think it's as biocompatible.
I'm making these pins right now out of stainless. Customer needed 20 pcs ASAP, and an additional 180 afterwards. Got the first 20 done and handed off to the boss, now working on the rest.
Running as a bar job in a collet chuck. Cutting the angle on the end, then the grooves, then cutting off into a parts catcher (which the part will occasionally miss, I need to figure that out lol).
Probably will drop the RPM's on the cut-off so it drops straight down instead of slinging it into the chip trough.
X20.
G96 s250 m03
G01 x5. F0.1
G97 s300
G01 x-1. F0.05
G96 s300
G00 x20.
M09
G00 x100. Z100.
M30
If you have a bar feeder it will be different. But summary is:
Part off normally until 5mm diameter, slowly rpm down to 300, and slow feed rate also. Go 1mm past centre (face off), and part should fall easily and not be thrown into some place you will never find.
Speed chuck back up, pull tool out, coolant off, get tool out the way, then stop.
Insert gcode or macro for parts catcher and bar feeder.
Replace your g96 surface speed to what's appropriate.
Had a little fun in the shop making a c. 1/20 scale WW2 Navy Mk 14 torpedo from some scrap.
Seen a few of these models in museums, but since they won’t let me take one home, I just figured I’d bang one out!
I’ll make the stand next time it’s to $&@ing hot to go outside and do tractor work.
These were made by the thousands at the torpedo factory in Alexandria, VA. Now some kind of mall/Starbucks and fern bar. But once upon a time, they made the torps that (once they were fixed!!!) ended the war for Japan. All the Atom bombs really did was wake them up to the fact they rost.
Sirhr
PS. Waiting on a small pair of brass propellers, since machining those would be a bitch!
Seen a few of these models in museums, but since they won’t let me take one home, I just figured I’d bang one out!
I’ll make the stand next time it’s to $&@ing hot to go outside and do tractor work.
These were made by the thousands at the torpedo factory in Alexandria, VA. Now some kind of mall/Starbucks and fern bar. But once upon a time, they made the torps that (once they were fixed!!!) ended the war for Japan. All the Atom bombs really did was wake them up to the fact they rost.
Sirhr
PS. Waiting on a small pair of brass propellers, since machining those would be a bitch!
Made some stocking stuffers. Idea, details, dimensions and encouragement from pmclaine, inspiration from buffalowinter.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Thank you,
MrSmith
Continuation of project. Most of work done sitting side saddle on my MILs mobility scooter.
Had to do 2 8-32's in the middle and used the other foot with more tapped holes to reinforce the above piece. Much more room to be able to get that one in. Used bench grinder to relieve the edge and a little unfolding of the sheet metal to be able to get longer piece into place.
Top piece
Rebent the under side sheet metal after the pic.
Before sag
After fix
The rest of the insulating of the garage will have to wait. Can't get up on ladder to tension garage spring more and I can tell it needs it. 1/3 - 1/2 of the way done with insulation.
little simple project in the shop this afternoon. Picked up a 12 ton bottle jack for the shop and instead of buying a saddle made one using materials I had laying around. Collar was made with 2" DOM .250 wall tubing bored on the lathe to fit the top of the jack snugly.
Finished my little model torpedo today with a pair of counter-rotating props and a 'moving cart' similar to those used at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria. Wheels are from a 1/35th ScaleLink cannon that I'm mounting in a truck... so don't need the wheels!
Fun little museum-type project that was easy, quick and looks wicked cool!
Cheers,
Fun little museum-type project that was easy, quick and looks wicked cool!
Cheers,
Friend needed a pool fence gate. Threw one together with stuff from the scrap pile. Just have to add weld on hinges and a latch.
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I expect so....gates are 35" and I have no idea how offset on mounting and step up from the outside deck will finish out. His career is construction so code is his wheel house. I just made them to the size he requested.
Good deal…. Didn’t mean to be “that guy”, just hate seeing go backs
I bought a pedestal mounted decorative scroll bender and twister about 10 years ago to make some metal deck furniture for the wife and deck rails for one of my daughters. It was a good buy. I use it for all kind of stuff even here on the farm that needs radiuses, circles bends or twists.
Wish I had some pictures of the things I fabbed over the years of one off \ prototype work in flight test. No cameras allowed.
I worked with small stainless tubing and silver solder. Operated brake press and made my own patterns.
One thing I was proud of was when they had a F-111 with a missing front equipment bay panel. About 120 or so screws 2 1/2 x 3 foot with 2 compound contures and no tooling available.
Panel fasteners were countersink on one side and counter bored on the other for captive fasteners.
I used a brake press a lead hammer and shot bags to get the contures from mylar drawings.
The holes I picked up by making a 1 inch wide template with center of it all cut out and flexed into shape. A 1/4 inch to 1/8 hole finder and drilled my template to match the A/C.
There ended up a crowd of about 50 people watching as I walked up and set it in place and commenced to run in every fastner tight.
Told them I don't do paint and went back to my shop.
So when I see fabricators I recognize the talent and there is lots of it here on the hide
I worked with small stainless tubing and silver solder. Operated brake press and made my own patterns.
One thing I was proud of was when they had a F-111 with a missing front equipment bay panel. About 120 or so screws 2 1/2 x 3 foot with 2 compound contures and no tooling available.
Panel fasteners were countersink on one side and counter bored on the other for captive fasteners.
I used a brake press a lead hammer and shot bags to get the contures from mylar drawings.
The holes I picked up by making a 1 inch wide template with center of it all cut out and flexed into shape. A 1/4 inch to 1/8 hole finder and drilled my template to match the A/C.
There ended up a crowd of about 50 people watching as I walked up and set it in place and commenced to run in every fastner tight.
Told them I don't do paint and went back to my shop.
So when I see fabricators I recognize the talent and there is lots of it here on the hide
Not a “fun” project but an actual repair of a universal joint coupler called a Carden shaft on a 1913 Buick. The lugs had almost 100 thou of wear in them so had to build up the male lugs with weld and then true the 'females.' There are 4 of them, for an X-Y axis. The disk is harder than woodpecker lips. But with a carbide bit, got through it.
Then centered up the male drive pieces and they are getting cut on each side to center on the drum. And then cut to .0005-ish over the width of the females. and the rest will be done with sanding blocks and lap to get a perfect slip fit two directions.
Lots of math to get everything exactly centered where I want it. This is why I love DRO’s!!!
Sirhr
PS. Sorry, earlier text was full of voice to text errors. Fixed it up so it might make sense.
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