Stuff you have made today

[Turbo]

One of these:
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1" BSPT on the outside and 1/4" BSPP inside, its for a water drain tap on a Lister D.

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I offset the tailstock behind center and turned it between centers to get the taper. The original plan was to just drill and tap a 1" iron stop plug but I couldn't think how to hold it in the chuck to drill it (Can't fit a 12mm drill in my pillar drill) so I went for the easier option.
The ends of the threads need dressing with a small file but I'll leave that for my dad when he fits it.

To drill a 1" iron bung in the lathe you could wrap the threads with a few turns of insulating tape or a better method would be to use a 1" barrel socket gripped in the lathe & screw the bung into it.

But well done for making a nice brass adaptor, you did know that you can buy them?

 

[Dieselman 63]

You need a set of blacksmith's drills, they have a reduced shank to fit into the chuck.

When I went to pick up the power hacksaw the other week the guy showed me his workshop, it was full of stuff he’d saved from demolished buildings. There was a huge pillar drill with a 2mt fitting... with a Jacobs 34 13mm chuck in it... and a pile of morse taper drill bits which had been ground down to reduce the taper shank to fit in the chuck. I could have cried...

 

[zx9]

There was a huge pillar drill with a 2mt fitting... with a Jacobs 34 13mm chuck in it... and a pile of morse taper drill bits which had been ground down to reduce the taper shank to fit in the chuck. I could have cried...

 

[Maker]

better method would be to use a 1" barrel socket gripped in the lathe & screw the bung into it.

That's what I was going to do but I could only find an elbow that size and I couldn't be bothered to 4 jaw it.

 

[Hood]

@eSCHEn
Just for you

 

[eSCHEn]

Looking good hood

 

[Hood]

Ha ha I thought it was crap myself, my stainless Tig is decent at times and not at others, don't do enough of it.

 

[eSCHEn]

Ha ha I thought it was crap myself, my stainless Tig is decent at times and not at others, don't do enough of it.

Well sure, it's not as good as me but you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.



Sorry, can't keep a straight face saying that ^^^^

 

[Jlg]

This a tachometer for my lathe I was going to put it in a project box but I couldn't afford one so for now I've just put it there and tucker the wires and switch behind the rack on my wall

 

[Shox Dr]

View attachment 164703 View attachment 164704 View attachment 164705 Eventually got round to making a compression moulding tool for making the seals that go in the track of a WW2 military vehicle. First part was a short shot ,second was perfect. Doesn't look like much until you cut one in half to reveal the section...

How do you inject the material

 

[zx9]

This a tachometer for my lathe I was going to put it in a project box but I couldn't afford one so for now I've just put it there and tucker the wires and switch behind the rack on my wallView attachment 164731View attachment 164732

Cool, I take it that the magnet is taped to spacer at the back of the spindle just in front of the first change wheel, you could probably turn a new spacer and drill it to let you epoxy in the magnet.

 

[Jlg]

Cool, I take it that the magnet is taped to spacer at the back of the spindle just in front of the first change wheel, you could probably turn a new spacer and drill it to let you epoxy in the magnet.

I super glued it and the tape was a just in case measur as I have some 1mm neodymium magnets that I need to find and I'll drill a hole and epoxy one of them in

 

[Hood]

Bit more stainless, bulkhead fitting for a deckwash pump., 3mm thick plasma cut flange to a 1" Dia x 1/16" wall tube, quite pleased with the weld as I am poor at going around pipes, I usually only find circle stuff easy when it is meant to be straight

 

[Maker]

One of these:
View attachment 164644
1" BSPT on the outside and 1/4" BSPP inside, its for a water drain tap on a Lister D.

View attachment 164645

I offset the tailstock behind center and turned it between centers to get the taper. The original plan was to just drill and tap a 1" iron stop plug but I couldn't think how to hold it in the chuck to drill it (Can't fit a 12mm drill in my pillar drill) so I went for the easier option.
The ends of the threads need dressing with a small file but I'll leave that for my dad when he fits it.

I've just realised the taper is wrong, I'd worked out from the wiki the big end should be 0.026" bigger than the small end but I'd taken the "gauge length" (0.409") as the overall length, I should have moved the tailstock back a further 0.04". I did think as I started threading it looked a bit shallow, should still seal though, fingers crossed.

Also made this today, a brake adapter;


Barely visible between the IS mount on the fork and the post mount on the brake caliper. I'm sure how standard the mounts are across manufacturers or even what size rotor I have (Just noticed in that picture its etched on it ) so I made one, quicker and cheaper this way.

 

[Jlg]

A alcohol burner probably have been easier to buy one but I had some spare time

 

[vwmark]

View attachment 164703 View attachment 164704 View attachment 164705 Eventually got round to making a compression moulding tool for making the seals that go in the track of a WW2 military vehicle. First part was a short shot ,second was perfect. Doesn't look like much until you cut one in half to reveal the section...

That brings back memories. Designed and testing rubber mouldings for 10 years. Make a single cavity, 6 samples then it was scrap.

"Uniroyal" flashless transfer moulding was the best. Struggled getting toolmakers anywhere in the world to make yet a bloke in a farm in Hereford had it down to a fine art. Stunning tooling.

 

[pressbrake1]

It's a compression moulding tool, not an injection moulding tool. Cut your bits of uncured rubber from a slab, weigh them , put them in the mold and slowly close it. Mold heated to 160 degrees and in a 30 ton heated press

Please teach me master!

 

[cardiffrob]

Turned one of these into...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

For?

 

[cardiffrob]

Morris Minor, or any A-series. It was a case of slitting the fins away and then using one of them thar curvable bladed file thingies to flatten it down before running lots of wen-n-dry over it. Just looks nicer and is easier to polish up. I have a Shorrocks Blower and a rebuilt 948cc engine to finish off.