Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Brilliant!! I'm constantly amazed at the speed at which these CNC machines [and I include lathes etc in that] work.

How long did it take to write the control programme file?

If you have your CAM set up to your advantage then a couple of minutes max to code for something like that.
Doing the drawing in the first place would be the bit that takes the time but even then probably less than 30 mins for something like that. For something similar to the parts I cut out the last day (pic below) then 4 or 5 mins to draw and about 2 mins to choose the tool paths, do a simulation, post the code and transfer via the network from my desk to the machines computer out in the container.

oops, sorry wrong pic, I meant this one.

Edit again, in fact I reckon it would only have been a couple of minutes to draw them.

 

[anto44]

Here's the ratios and angles for the vw logo if anyone is interested

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Right lads, please bear with me.

To update my post #3957 above, it's amazing what doses of cold remedies, a decent dram and a visit to the Consultant at my scheduled hospital check-up clinic yesterday can achieve. Latest results there are very good, with them not wanting to see me for another two months - but Doc has 'fine tuned' my anti-cancer drug prescription to allow my immune system enough 'leeway' to see off the current infection. Happy boy, me .

Oddly, the solution as to why I couldn't get the part-off tool on centre came to me during the night on Wed when I was having difficulty sleeping, between the situation with my Brother and the lathe problem. See if you can see what Dopey had done, from this pic? [the end of the ring spanner is only there to stop the part launching itself to the floor while I was taking the pic ]



Yes, in my 'wool-filled-brain' condition, I'd just grabbed the first tool holder out of the box on the right, which is not for a parting off cutter . So, it would fit in my correct one on the left above, but being square shank it would 'cobble' a bit. I'll just send off for a blade type to fit in due course.

It's odd how things might happen for a reason, who knows how the Universe works? [Well, Steven Hawking did - but he's dead so I can't ask him ]. In the course of all this swapping round bits, inc tool-post holders, I discovered that the tool-post stud is slightly bent, and here was me thinking my 7/16" tapping was off vertical when I made the handle I posted about earlier .

I phoned Myford and the post & nut is still available so I've ordered one [I just like things to be right, it IS engineering after all ], but it's for the original type tool clamp. https://www.myford.co.uk/acatalog/C1---C6.-REPLACEMENT-TOOLPOST-STUD-AND-NUT-75-1412-34.html I checked with him and if it isn't long enough to accommodate the QCPT they refund on return. Excellent service, I've contacted them in the past just seeking info and they've been very helpful .

I saw on their site two types of rear tool-post holders available for the ML7, but at £50 and £100 too much for me to lash out on at the moment. I mentioned this, and asked him how much I could expect to get for a couple of accessories which came with the lathe [but I'll never use] if I listed them on e.g. evilbay. The idea was I'd then buy whichever tool-post the funds raised realised.

He said to take some pics, send them to him and he would see if some sort of deal could be arranged. Can't say fairer than that, and I don't have to accept his offer of course. so [potential] win:win

If nothing works out with that, my mate with the Colchester has said he'd willingly make a post, but he's 40 miles away and in his 80s so I'd sooner trouble him if possible. He's made stuff for me before, but I just feel I'd come out ahead and have a rear tool-post holder if ''Plan A' works......

Sorry it's a bit long-winded and slow to post, but I'm still not as 'sharp' as normal, what with the cold etc.

 

[wookie]

it was just so nice to use although even for a shortarse like me it was a bit on the low side.

Nowt wrong with stuff being too low, you can always make a plinth of some kind to lift it up, being that I'm on the lanky side I often do that with various bits of kit to suit me. After I broke the cast end frames for my slip rolls I made a complete new frame in steel but made it about 9" taller, suits me just fine now.

 

[decca]

Right lads, please bear with me.

To update my post #3957 above, it's amazing what doses of cold remedies, a decent dram and a visit to the Consultant at my scheduled hospital check-up clinic yesterday can achieve. Latest results there are very good, with them not wanting to see me for another two months - but Doc has 'fine tuned' my anti-cancer drug prescription to allow my immune system enough 'leeway' to see off the current infection. Happy boy, me .

Oddly, the solution as to why I couldn't get the part-off tool on centre came to me during the night on Wed when I was difficulty sleeping, between the situation with my Brother and the lathe problem. See if you can see what Dopey had done, from this pic? [the end of the ring spanner is only there to stop the part launching itself to the floor while I was taking the pic ]

View attachment 154954

Yes, in my 'wool-filled-brain' condition, I'd just grabbed the first tool holder out of the box on the right, which is not for a parting off cutter . So, it would fit in my correct one on the left above, but being square shank it would 'cobble' a bit. I'll just send off for a blade type to fit in due course.

It's odd how things might happen for a reason, who knows how the Universe works? [Well, Steven Hawking did - but he's dead so I can't ask him ]. In the course of all this swapping round bits, inc tool-post holders, I discovered that the tool-post stud is slightly bent, and here was me thinking my 7/16" tapping was off vertical when I made the handle I posted about earlier .

I phoned Myford and the post & nut is still available so I've ordered one [I just like things to be right, it IS engineering after all ], but it's for the original type tool clamp. https://www.myford.co.uk/acatalog/C1---C6.-REPLACEMENT-TOOLPOST-STUD-AND-NUT-75-1412-34.html I checked with him and if it isn't long enough to accommodate the QCPT they refund on return. Excellent service, I' contacted them in the past just seeking info and they've been very helpful .

I saw on their site two types of rear tool-post holders available for the ML7, but at £50 and £100 too much for me to lash out on at the moment. I mentioned this, and asked him how much I could expect to get for a couple of accessories which came with the lathe [but I'll never use] if I listed them on e.g. evilbay. The idea was I'd then buy whichever tool-post the funds raised realised.

He said to take some pics, send them to him and he would see if some sort of deal could be arranged. Can't say fairer than that, and I don't have to accept his offer of course. so [potential] win:win

If nothing works out with that, my mate with the Colchester has said he'd willingly make a post, but he's 40 miles away and in his 80s so I'd sooner trouble him if possible. He's made stuff for me before, but I just feel I'd come out ahead and have a rear tool-post holder if ''Plan A' works......

Sorry it's a bit long-winded and slow to post, but I'm still not as 'sharp' as normal, what with the cold etc.

This is the tool post I made. Just found the photos, it puts the holder over the edge of the top slide so you can accommodate a 12mm tool.

It really was not that hard to make and a good project.

 

[decca]

God looking at those photos I do narf miss my ml7. First lathe is like a first love.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Which qctp are you using, I've been looking at them for my ml7 as the little cap thing it comes with is abysmal, but there's so many with very mixed reviews, and as you've found, they say they'll fit but in reality only with a 6mm tool in not the 12mm it's supposed to use!

I measured my 4-way tool holder today and it will accept 12mm shanks, but as @decca says, they're too high to be on centre. My banggood 8mm turning tool I bought [as an experiment to see] worked fine in it without having to shim it, before I bought the QCTP.

Here's a pic of the 4-way which came with the lathe [as well as the clamp type you have] to give you an idea

Hope this helps.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This is the tool post I made. Just found the photos, it puts the holder over the edge of the top slide so you can accommodate a 12mm tool.
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It really was not that hard to make and a good project.

Lovely job But I have no mill and mainly a mix of smaller square HSS to play with in making turning tools. Too late now for me to bother getting larger stock anyway......

EDIT: aye, that's what I have with the QCPT. I could have bought a single blade type parting-off tool, which I may have to do now, but but I have a Baldrick plan.....see my other post

 

[decca]

I measured my 4-way tool holder today and it will accept 12mm shanks, but as @decca says, they're too high to be on centre. My banggood 8mm turning tool I bought [as an experiment to see] worked fine in it without having to shim it, before I bought the QCTP.

Here's a pic of the 4-way which came with the lathe [as well as the clamp type you have] to give you an idea

Hope this helps.

Had one of those before I made the QCTP and I put it in the 4 jaw and faced 4mm from the bottom of it to drop it down so I could use 12 mm tools in it.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ That was my Master Plan to Save the Universe so that I could use it in the QCTP - my mate would have done it on his mill. It's only the parting one which would have need doctoring, the rest look to be absolutely fine. Although I've not tried turning with one yet, the Old Fashioned Mk1 Eyeball says "Yes"

 

[mrsbruce]

At the beginning of this year, we had a shower cabinet fitted in the bathroom, but never got round to finishing the decoration.

Today, I ripped up the old vinyl flooring, then the hardboard from the bathroom floor. Fitted new board, vinyl, new skirting, and siliconed everything to within an inch of its life. I just need to repaint the walls now.

I’m feeling quite smug now.

 

[cardiffrob]

Made some range scrap out of perfectly good bullets. Different powder charges give different splattyness into SOFT sand. Easy to see why these rounds did so much damage during the American Civil war.

 

[selectedgrub]

The lump of wood table is beautiful.

 

[rtbcomp]

I made some tool posts for my Drummond Round Bed


https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/drummond-round-bed-lathe.82954/page-3#post-1227837 Post #53

 

[selectedgrub]

I stared at this battery tray until some ideas came to me.

 

[outofthefire]

I've been playing with titanium again recently, this torque bracelet is two bits of 6mm round welded at the ends twisted then forged flat. It's a challenge to work with but i'm getting to grips with it now.

 

[Dieselman 63]

I've been playing with titanium again recently, this torque bracelet is two bits of 6mm round welded at the ends twisted then forged flat. It's a challenge to work with but i'm getting to grips with it now.

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Torque or torc?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A bit of fun. I had time on my hands.
A mini Pub style bench.




It is another potted plant stand.
It was a fun silly build.




The wood?
A good question, they were some batons pulled from a skip. Passed through a planer and ripped in half.
It is a hard wood and very close grain.
Held together with brass 3/4 C/sunk screws and a few brads. Finished in clear bees wax.

 

[outofthefire]

Torque or torc?

I'll bow to what ever you say

 

[Hood]

Trying to catch up a bit so was in yesterday and this morning.
Today the first job was to make all the bits for a Davit for a Cheetah Cat that has replaced the boat I fitted a net drum to last week.
I started off with a 1m x 1m x12mm piece of 5083.

After a bit of plasma cutting it looked like this.

The parts removed left this

and this

I then chopped up some 3inch Dia x 1/4inch wall 6082 tube.

I then moved on to making up a jig for a water cooled exhaust manifold I had to make. Someone else made this one but the welds were leaking, they repaired the leaks in the outer but there were still leaks internally and they gave up and asked me to do it. I am going to start from scratch as cutting it open and having to try and repair the holes would be more hassle and likely take longer than making a new one.

A vid of the plasma in action, how I managed all these years without the plasma I will never know