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sbwhart:
Nice work Tim
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Good to see you getting into the mystery of buttons, no mystery really just a nice simple way to get a neat rad.
Good thread well explained and great pics
Keep up the good work
Stew
spuddevans:
Well I left you all on the edge of your seats ( you were all on the edge of your seats, right? :lol: ) The small delay in the build was caused by some "Man-Flu".
Anyway, I started off today by flycutting the steam-chests down to size, then I marked up the Datum end and drilled the hole for the spool valve using progressively larger drills until I got to 5.9mm.
Then after marking up one side for the steam inlet flanges I set up a stop on the vice and drilled the 1st hole on each block, using a vice stop ment that it was easy to find the 1st hole, drill it and then swop over the steam-chests to drill the same hole in both without having to measure and re-check. Then it was just a case of winding on the x-axis the right amount for each hole.
Both chests
I was about to start on drilling the other side, but I was feeling a little tired and didnt want to muck it up so I called it a day.
Tim
NickG:
Great progress Tim! Hope you made a good recovery from the Man-Flu, awful thing that!
Slightly :offtopic: Your photos are always so good. Did you say you were using a DSLR? Sure there was another thread on it? The wife is hankoring after a better camera so I immediately said DSLR then realised I know nothing about photography! There are these bridging cameras that fill the gap now, are they any good? If I went halves with her, sure I could put it to good use in the workshop!
I need to get used to flycutting, I'm sceptical now whether it'll be rigid enough in my ER collet chuck as it protrues quite a bit from the spindle. I might have to get a 1/2" finger collet just for that job.
Well done, coming along nicely.
Nick
spuddevans:
--- Quote from: NickG on September 10, 2009, 03:35:55 AM ---Slightly :offtopic: Your photos are always so good. Did you say you were using a DSLR? Sure there was another thread on it? The wife is hankoring after a better camera so I immediately said DSLR then realised I know nothing about photography! There are these bridging cameras that fill the gap now, are they any good? If I went halves with her, sure I could put it to good use in the workshop!
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Yea there's a thread in the "How to" section on taking photos in the workshop. I do use a Dslr, a canon 400D, but, as I said in the how-to thread, the key to a good photo is good light, unfortunately something that isnt always found in a workshop. Hence I use a powerful flash mounted on my camera, but I "bounce" the flash by pointing the flash up to the (slightly dirty white) ceiling thereby creating a nice flat even light for the picture.
Those bridge cameras are very good too, my advice would be to read up as much as you can on them before buying, find one that suits your needs, then go into a jessops or some such and try it out.
--- Quote ---I need to get used to flycutting, I'm sceptical now whether it'll be rigid enough in my ER collet chuck as it protrues quite a bit from the spindle. I might have to get a 1/2" finger collet just for that job.
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I flycut using my ER32 collet, I have a set of 3 flycutters but I've only sharpened up 1 of them for use, the smallest one (it has a tip swing diameter of about 2" ) and have found no problem with rigididididididity. It leaves a lovely silky smooth finish.
Tim
NickG:
Cheers Tim,
Will have a look at the thread. Will do that (reading up), I do that for everything I buy, but the wife isn't so patient! I did say we'd go into jessops, went into comet but a shop that specialises in cameras will be able to give better advice and being able to try them is a must.
Great, will definitely be using flycutter for facing cuts in future then. I think I've only tried the small one too. My mill seems to be trammed in pretty well so should be fine, couldn't notice any ridge or step when using the big end mill.
Nick
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