The last week or so much of my time has been taken up with Family and Domestic duties so progress in the shop has been a bit slow. Finished a bit of a gardening project yesterday:- dug out an overgrown rose bed, put some edging blocks in and planted some bulbs and primulas, I want to leave it until the spring to let the weeds left in the ground to grow through so I get get rid of them easy, then I'll plant something a bit more permanent.

As you can see I come from the keep it easy and tidy school of gardening.

My DRO mill project is on the back burner until this afternoon when I'm going round to Johns for him to do a bit of drilling on his mill, these visits are always educational.
So picking up these odd job threads again. One of rays machines puts a seam around the edge of leather belts/straps so I made him some extra rollers so he can do a double or treble seam.
This is the machine

And these are the additional rollers I made him

Just washers realy.
Next Job was to do some more on the hole punches
Turn the OD and drill the hole. Job held in ER32 collet

And this is the set finished turned I made some spare of the larger sizes.

Next job was to heat treat the punches this is my set up a Clark propane burner some fire bricks to make a little cave and a good dollop of water, when you've got a few to do don't skimp on the water as it will soon start to get hot and you will lose the quenching effect.

These are the harden punches, in the fire brick cave, I put all the punches in the cave and moved each one in turn to the hot spot when up to cherry red it went in the water the next one was put in the hot spot etc etc that way they all had a bit of a pre heat.

Next job give them a polish and then onto to tempering.
Have fun
Stew