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Foundry Furnace for the Tiny Shop
vtsteam:
Joe that would be really great!
Thanks Will! :beer:
I took a break from casting today and drilled and tapped two 5/16" holes in the back of the cone pulley casting and bolted it directly to the lathe faceplate. Then I slowly worked off the machining allowance in this small lathe -- about 1/4" on the diameters of the sheaves. I couldn't dig too deep without chatter on something ths large -- I'm looking forward to a bigger spindle and bearings when the pulleys are finished!
When supper time came around I had it roughed out to 5",4",3" and 2" diameters. I haven't bored it yet, and I haven't started cutting the grooves for the J type Poly-Vee belt. I did make up a 40 degree gauge from some galvanized tin, and then sharpened a lathe tool using that to compare it with.
Here's the pulley on the faceplate:
vtsteam:
Hmmm, thinking about this in the morning here. I am going to have to come straight in 90 degrees with the lathe tool to cut the grooves, but I have to work up to very near the left edge of each sheave because the lands aren't much wider than the belt. In other words, groove right close to the base of the next larger sheave. So the tool I made with the cutting point at center was no good. I need to put the point as close as possible to the left side of the tool. :doh:
Rob, you okay? I don't know what A&E is, but guessing it isn't a good thing.....
I do want to see those tools (kidding of course, earlier)! :beer:
ps your foundry photos above are crude enough to make me think that, following your lead and calculating from an equivalent skill level, that in 20 odd years I'll be turning out tooling as beautiful as the stuff you do now. Which fills me with hope! Assuming the underworld has a furnace...... :dremel:
Manxmodder:
A&E usually abbreviate for accident and emergency,though ass & elbow seems more apt on some occasions. :lol: :lol:
Edit to add: A & E could also stand for awkward and eccentric,like all good MadModders should be.
vtsteam:
Not the Arts and Entertainment channel then? :scratch:
RobWilson:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on March 04, 2015, 09:13:13 PM ---[
Huh????
Could you repeat that in English, Rob? :lol:
(me gazing down at a clementine crate with a stolen bent kitchen spoon, a rusty artist's pallette knife, and a baking poker thingy, a clothes pin, a candle, some bits of dowel, pieces of round bar and tubing, a sawed off table leg, a clothes pin, and a piece of galvanized tin bent into a "U".) Ahhh, me I can see jealousy in my future. No longer, how you say.......a nice bit o kit?
And I thought I was stylin' :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
You know......havng it all organized like that in one crate? :lol: :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I have just gone up market Steve , moved on to a Dows port wooden box :)
--- Quote from: vtsteam on March 06, 2015, 10:56:13 AM ---
Rob, you okay? I don't know what A&E is, but guessing it isn't a good thing.....
I do want to see those tools (kidding of course, earlier)! :beer:
ps your foundry photos above are crude enough to make me think that, following your lead and calculating from an equivalent skill level, that in 20 odd years I'll be turning out tooling as beautiful as the stuff you do now. Which fills me with hope! Assuming the underworld has a furnace...... :dremel:
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Yer I am fine , just had a few chest pains and decided to get get back some of the national insurance money I have payed for years , ended up doing a bit "Train spotting " on the NHS and they gave me a canny bottle off easy start too :med:
Aye my foundry/crucible tools were a bit ruff back then , that blower was canny though ,cast iron did not stand a chance ,,,,,,,,,,,,aaaarh happy days :)
Rob
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