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Divided he ad:
No worries :thumbup:

Figured you were going that direction. What with such cars and engine swaps you must have seen hundreds of hose fittings ::) :)

Only asked about the crush factor cause I found a steel one (~1mm wall thickness) on my car that had been abused by a previous owner :hammer:

Drawbar.... Fully agreed with Jason, you really should make one! Could be kinda scary without :bugeye:

Ralph.

Divided he ad:
It was good to meet you Ade :thumbup: brief but fun :)

I just got back from a trip over to Ade's workshop.... it's a little bit bigger than mine :jaw: :)

Swapped a collet holder and had a bit of a chat with Ade and his dad... Both very happy chilled out blokes :thumbup:

The sump project looks very huge and awkward! But fun too! The wax stuff is brilliant, I had no idea it would be so strong and light!

I don't envy you your next challenge with the tapers either Ade, your going to have fun finding a boring bar long enough!

Thinking about it, you only need to drill a hole the narrow size of the MT3 taper through the blank and then make the taper ~4" long (whatever the MT length is?) so not such a huge boring bar really :scratch:

Snowing here again, 1" on the local roads, much fun the last 2 miles home, the back of the motor stepping out at the slightest hint of power :headbang: :bugeye:
Usually surprises the muppets driving 4 feet of my arse end! :lol:

We will have to find a day in the future (probably best a warm one!!) that allows a longer time to chat.... at only 30 mins away it's not a bad run :)

Take it easy, have fun with the tool making tomorrow :dremel:

Ralph.

AdeV:
Cheers Ralph, it was great to put a face to the name, and I don't envy you your car in this weather.... it'd be a scream round Oulton though.. you'll have to book a track day (if you can get the locks to work, that is! :lol:)

I like the way you say "you only need to drill a hole the narrow size of the MT3 taper through the blank", like it'll be easy or something... You do realise I cut myself an 8" piece for my blank? I do have some long(ish) drills (not to mention Da Monster), not sure I've got any 8" ones though...

Hmmm. I guess we'll find out tomorrow....

I'll start a new thread for this project, just on the billion to one chance that another Edgwick owner ever graces these pages & needs a sleeve...

Jasonb:
If its a sleeve to take that collet colder you only need the through hole large enough to clear the drawbar as thats all that will be going through the hole. Unless I'm missing something.

Jason

AdeV:
Hmm, it seems to have been a while since I did anything on this project... haven't really had much workshop time recently. Although there's no excuse other than pure bone idleness for not doing owt over the weekend...

So, anyway, after a few calculations & stuff, I canted the angle plate up & milled away the bulk of the interior side wall material on one side:

There's about another 0.5mm to take in each axis to get them spot on - I'll do that with a finishing cutter (not the rippa, which was used today), just to get a nice smoooth surface. Hopefully, that'll be tomorrow's job, then I can flip it over & do the other side.

Interestingly, the surface (again) looks worse in the photo than it is in reality; there's a few ridges in the nearest hollow (just me being lax in pulling the quill right down to the stop, I think), but the others are again dead smooth to the touch. I'm hoping they'll be even nicer when I finish with a "proper" cutter...

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