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| eskoilola:
Nice setup for machining that curved surface. I have now visited the flea market and the dude who sells all sorts of metal tooling stuff was indeed there. I now could send You these HSS blanks as long as the weight is under 1 kilogram because then the posting fee is much lower. Weighting by hand ... maybe 4 pieces. The HSS blanks are 200 x 15 x 15 millimeters in size. If You want these just PM me :borg: |
| NormanV:
Here is progress so far, it is not fully assembled just propped up in the right places. |
| NormanV:
Today I made a start on the brake and winding drums. The plans call for cast iron, I decided to cast aluminium blanks to make them. I cast them in open top moulds. My sand is rather damp and when I poured the metal one of them boiled like a witches cauldron. Obviously that was a very damp bit of sand. You can see the difference in the appearance in the two photos. When I roughed them out I was expecting huge voids, but no, it's fine for the job. |
| tom osselton:
It's coming along nicely! |
| NormanV:
Thanks Tom. I've machined the cable drum and the brake drum. I made the ratchet and pawl by careful marking out and filing, it wasn't worth setting up the milling machine and I get pleasure from making stuff by hand. (the red spots are blood, I caught my finger on a burr, it was only a scratch but it wouldn't stop bleeding) |
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