Dr.Al
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A couple of simple-ish things made today.
The first of these was a simple brass screw to replace a steel screw:
It goes here, on the side of my router plane, to hold the fence in place:
It was a bit of an awkward job: Veritas use daft american threads and I don't have a 5/16" UNF die. I figured I'd just thread cut it on the lathe, but it seems I also don't have the right gears to cut a 32 TPI thread (I thought I could do all of the common TPI pitches, but I need one extra gear to do 32 TPI, so that's another job for the list).
Anyway, in civilised units, 5/16" UNF is 4.83 mm diameter and 0.79 mm pitch, so I turned the shaft down to about 4.8 mm and used an M5 (0.8 mm pitch) split die, with the split closed up as much as I could. After running the die up and down the shaft a few times, it fit the tapped hole nicely.
Today I also cut up a hand saw:
to make this:
The steel was a lot harder than I expected, so making those 19 mm diameter holes was very much not fun.
It gets squeezed between the two plates of my recently acquired Stanley #55:
Upside down view with both fences in place:
The main fence has a fine adjuster so it's easy to position the saw blade in the right place and then the other fence slides up and sandwiches a board:
It can then be used to cut a kerf all the way round a board, ready for resawing:
After making that, I sawed the board the rest of the way through, all the time wishing I had space for a bandsaw
The first of these was a simple brass screw to replace a steel screw:
It goes here, on the side of my router plane, to hold the fence in place:
It was a bit of an awkward job: Veritas use daft american threads and I don't have a 5/16" UNF die. I figured I'd just thread cut it on the lathe, but it seems I also don't have the right gears to cut a 32 TPI thread (I thought I could do all of the common TPI pitches, but I need one extra gear to do 32 TPI, so that's another job for the list).
Anyway, in civilised units, 5/16" UNF is 4.83 mm diameter and 0.79 mm pitch, so I turned the shaft down to about 4.8 mm and used an M5 (0.8 mm pitch) split die, with the split closed up as much as I could. After running the die up and down the shaft a few times, it fit the tapped hole nicely.
Today I also cut up a hand saw:
to make this:
The steel was a lot harder than I expected, so making those 19 mm diameter holes was very much not fun.
It gets squeezed between the two plates of my recently acquired Stanley #55:
Upside down view with both fences in place:
The main fence has a fine adjuster so it's easy to position the saw blade in the right place and then the other fence slides up and sandwiches a board:
It can then be used to cut a kerf all the way round a board, ready for resawing:
After making that, I sawed the board the rest of the way through, all the time wishing I had space for a bandsaw
