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Mill Power feed
Darren:
Thanks John,
All this effort is an attempt to try some methods for building your engine. It may look like I've sidetracked, but not really. Just trying a few things before going for the real thing :thumbup:
Thanks for the compliment, from yourself it carries some weight... :bugeye:
I've said this before, I have struggled for some time with machining. Some pointers from all the guys here has really made it start to happen. I just watched and listened.
Monkey see...... :)
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--- Quote ---Ralph, if you come over Sat you can see it in action :thumbup:
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Yes I will and erm... Yes I will :)
That brass looks very good finish indeed.... Looks very nearly good enough to polish!? .... I really want a finish like that :ddb:
Soon, with a little help ehh Darren? nudge, nudge, wink, wink :thumbup: :wave:
--- Quote ---I noticed tonight how much the whole mill is vibrating (fly cutter is not balanced ). The mill is not bolted down and it's also on a flimsy table.
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I have some bits that might help a little with this? I'll bring some with me and see..... Without looking at the whole ass'y it's hard to know if it'll work? .... But it might and that would be good :D
We will see about it tomorrow :thumbup:
Ralph.
Darren:
Ralph, the finish on the brass is exceptional, if I could do ally the same I would be very happy indeed... :ddb:
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Well... I've since been to Darrens dungeon of cool stuff..... Oh yes, it's full of cool stuff :bugeye: :thumbup:
I've seen that brass and the finish is truely exceptional.... It'd polish without flatting :ddb:
We had the aluminium coming out pretty darn good too :)
I've got some bits n pieces from Darren to aid in my power feed, so I'll be posting the results here if that's ok? It'll keep it all together :thumbup:
I've got a lot of work to do, but it should be fun and will definately be worth it :zap: :borg:
More on all this later :wave:
Ralph.
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Right, After a quick private natter to Darren we decided that keeping all the power feed mod's together sounds good.... That said......
I've been a little busy :dremel:
You've already seen the plate I started to make (if not... it's further back in this thread!)
Well here is the continuation of that....
Motor mounting, first the 11.5mm hole for the spigot shaft to enter through, then the 3 mounting holes ..... Yes I know I'm a bad lad for the Heath Robinson way of marking and eyeballing, but it works for me most of the time!! As it did here. (I marked the hole points using the original motor mounting plate from the garage door op')
Then I robbed another part from the garage door op' the spigot drive doofor thingy (technically accurate I think you'll find!?)
And two chain drive sprockets...
I cut the plate next to allow me to get the hand wheel on whilst I worked out the placement of the rest of the parts..
Hacksaw and drill.... Then clean up with the mill and finally a file to remove all 90degree edges.
I then turned my attention to the sprockets... Drilled out the centre of the smaller one and loctited a 10mm stainless bar into it, machined the end to accept the spigot drive doofor thingy and loctited that on to the end of the sprocket.
The larger sprocket was bored out to accept the handwheel hub.
and then the dial was re-sized to allow fitting of the whole ass'y.
This is what we're left with...
Then a bearing for the shart to allow pulling of the freely rotating shaft
And finally for last night...
Engaged...
Dis-engaged...
:)
Bit of a monster post, but I had a lot to show :thumbup:
Next time, a chain and a little release mechanism for the spigot drive doofor thingy!
Ralph.
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