Lathe, mills, drills, slotters, shapers and grinders (not angle grinders)

[davieh3350]

Thought I'd start a thread for machine tool jobs.
What you've been doing on your lathe, mill or drills, slot cutters and if anyone is lucky enough to have a surface/cylindrical grinder.

Today's job

(mine's on the right at the bottom) had to copy this wee shaft for a lads board edger. The keyway is minced up and the hole's pretty worn.
Can't get the old lathe fast enough to leave a real shiny finish. 600 rpm ain't fast enough!

What have you been up to?

 

[davieh3350]

Keyway time..

then pushed the wee gear in

 

[cosmagedon]

Cant find any on the computer but I should have some on my dropbox. I did get a tour of the Superior engineering shop last week and some of the machines they have there are awesome!! All old school British machines.

 

[davieh3350]

I pushed the bearing on to the small diameter behind the gear.. Fraction too large and the bearing runs too tight, got to push it back off and take a tiny bit off.,

I got carried away last night and stuck a bid on a cylindrical grinder that's on ebay... Woke up in the middle of the night and cursed myself for being so stupid.

Sat down this afternoon and raised my top bid

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I’ve got photos of the Standen factory on my icloud hopefully, will have a look for them. Proper old fashion gear cutting etc.

 

[davieh3350]

I’ve got photos of the Standen factory on my icloud hopefully, will have a look for them. Proper old fashion gear cutting etc.

I've been building up my kit to tackle a pair of gears for the big drill. £1050 for two gears and a ring nut from the makers was too much.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I've been building up my kit to tackle a pair of gears for the big drill. £1050 for two gears and a ring nut from the makers was too much.

I’m still trying to get my head around screw cutting so gear cutting is way in the future somewhere.........

 

[Shovelhands]

I've been building up my kit to tackle a pair of gears for the big drill. £1050 for two gears and a ring nut from the makers was too much.

I love they way your justifying your machine purchases to yourself Davie, but your going to have to start adding a zero to that number, to make yourself feel better! As I fear you are already way over budget on these gears!......

Keep up the good work

 

[davieh3350]

I love they way your justifying your machine purchases to yourself Davie, but your going to have to start adding a zero to that number, to make yourself feel better! As I fear you are already way over budget on these gears!......

Keep up the good work

You've not seen or heard the mess that the gears in the lathe headstock are in

 

[fermerboy]

Top work there @davieh3350 .

Love to see what you guys can do on lathes etc.

I was given a small lathe by a neighbour that was moving. I don't use it much, nor am I very good with it, but it has got me out of a fix a couple of times, doing a bush or the like.

 

[Phil P]

This was a while ago now (last year I think) but I’ve always been quite proud of how well it came out.
It’s a heavy duty bearing housing for my mates wood chipper because it kept splitting the housing.

 

[davieh3350]

This was a while ago now (last year I think) but I’ve always been quite proud of how well it came out.
It’s a heavy duty bearing housing for my mates wood chipper because it kept splitting the housing.

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Hell of a lot beefier!!

 

[Phil P]

Hell of a lot beefier!!

It’s never broken since, £800 a go for an original he broke around 5 I think!

 

[davieh3350]

off to Stockport next week

 

[Gulli]

I've just got a small lathe running that I was given a couple of years ago by an old boy. Haven't used one since I was at college 15 years ago so it's taking a bit of remembering what to do!

 

[davieh3350]

I've just got a small lathe running that I was given a couple of years ago by an old boy. Haven't used one since I was at college 15 years ago so it's taking a bit of remembering what to do!

Pictures needed

 

[Gulli]

Pictures needed

I'll try and remember tomorrow got all the tooling for thread cutting and milling and some other stuff that I don't know what it's for

 

[Gulli]

Here she is loads of bits that I'm not sure what they for yet! But a full set of taps for every imperial thread I'll never need
Not sure if the bits in the last photo are even lathe related but I assumed so.
Also got a milling machine from the same place but I'm fairly sure it's missing some bits

 

[Shovelhands]

Looks like a set of boring bars in the last pic very useful

 

[TheTallGuy]

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Here she is loads of bits that I'm not sure what they for yet! But a full set of taps for every imperial thread I'll never need
Not sure if the bits in the last photo are even lathe related but I assumed so.
Also got a milling machine from the same place but I'm fairly sure it's missing some bits

You don't need any of those bits - I'll dispose of them for you - honest guv' I'm doing you favour...