Red'n'Black
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Been after one of these for a while, I'm not looking to do dent repairs so the accessories that come with the kits from Sealey etc would mostly be redundant. So I thought I'd have a go at making one.
Starting point was a chunk of 45mm round bar and a length of 12 x 1.5 tubing. 12mm is the biggest drill that most of my machines will take.
The original plan was to face and bore it in the lathe, but once I had the materials I saw I'd bitten of much more than I (or my lathe) could chew. 45mm won't go in the 3 jaw, it'll just about go in the 4 jaw. So I ended up marking it up as best I could with a centre finder and drilling it in the pillar drill.
The piece ended up 150mm and just under 1.8 kg.
The drilling was quite a chore, 150mm is about twice as much travel as my old Fobco has, so lots of stopping, raising the head up so I could get the drill out and clear the swarf, rinse and repeat.
It started out not too far off centre, it finished, er, well, see for yourself.
End stops were made from 25mm round bar. One was welded on, the other cross drilled and tapped M5. Then cut the head off an M10 bolt, turned a 9mm shoulder on it and welded it into the other end of the tube.
I'll replace that with a grub screw when I get one.
Quite pleased with it overall, I put an M10 nut in the vice, screwed the end in and gave it some welly, nothing's showing any signs of giving way so far.
First real job will be getting the pulley (with a blind hole) off the compressor motor so I can replace the bearings. The plan is to buy or make some sort of adapter and clamp it into the pulley groove. Watch this space...
Starting point was a chunk of 45mm round bar and a length of 12 x 1.5 tubing. 12mm is the biggest drill that most of my machines will take.
The original plan was to face and bore it in the lathe, but once I had the materials I saw I'd bitten of much more than I (or my lathe) could chew. 45mm won't go in the 3 jaw, it'll just about go in the 4 jaw. So I ended up marking it up as best I could with a centre finder and drilling it in the pillar drill.
The piece ended up 150mm and just under 1.8 kg.
The drilling was quite a chore, 150mm is about twice as much travel as my old Fobco has, so lots of stopping, raising the head up so I could get the drill out and clear the swarf, rinse and repeat.
It started out not too far off centre, it finished, er, well, see for yourself.
End stops were made from 25mm round bar. One was welded on, the other cross drilled and tapped M5. Then cut the head off an M10 bolt, turned a 9mm shoulder on it and welded it into the other end of the tube.
I'll replace that with a grub screw when I get one.
Quite pleased with it overall, I put an M10 nut in the vice, screwed the end in and gave it some welly, nothing's showing any signs of giving way so far.
First real job will be getting the pulley (with a blind hole) off the compressor motor so I can replace the bearings. The plan is to buy or make some sort of adapter and clamp it into the pulley groove. Watch this space...