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Minnie on the cheap!
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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