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ozzie46:

I had to take break from all the milling of the wheels and made the eccentric fpr the feed pump.

I had some unkown stainless steel I got from the scrap yard that I had been afraid to use after I had read about the work hardening properties of stainless. Cut off a chunk with the band saw and it seemed to cut really well so stuck it in the lathe and went at it. Man it cut really well. I totally surprised.

These will be the steel tires for the aluminum wheels. They are cut from hydraulic cyl rams donated by a good friend that runs a Hydraulic repair business. Still need enough material to make 2 more.

I would like to have it setting on its wheels by January. Maybe it will happen maybe it won't..

Oh yeah, I started to get some sores on the palm of my hand from using the riffer files so much as they are double ended. I asked my wife if she could make me a leather palm protector. Oops no leather, so she found an old mitt style pot holder and cut the finger area off up past the second knuckle of the fingers and cut the thumb out too. I used the cut off finger area as more padding in the palm of my hand. I just stuff it inside the pot holder into my palm. It works great.

Ron

Brass_Machine:
Hiya Rn :wave:

You did those wheels on the HF rotab?? Very nice. I have the HF rotab but haven't done anything with it.

Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

Eric

ozzie46:

Eric ,I had to repair the table after 2 wheel blanks were done. The gear on the bottom os the table came loos efrom the table. They only put in a small pin in the edge of the gear and table boss to pin the gear tp the boss. It was mostly in the bronze or brass gear and hardly any in the cast iron boss. I used a 1/8 end mill to drill a hole and put in a 1/8 pin and also used some bearing retainer locktight type glue sold by NAPA. Hope I'm making sense about the problem?

You may want to tear yours done and have peek at it before you use it. Don't want it coming loose in the middle of a job.

Ron

Stilldrillin:
Ron.
Those wheels are looking gorgeous! :thumbup:

I thought they always had to be cast! Never thought of anyone milling 'em...... :scratch:

Blummin, well done! :clap: :clap:

David D

NickG:
Ron,

thanks for sharing, I need to do the buffers for my electric soon so that will come in useful. I've bought the material so will attempt to machine mine from square! Look exactly the same as yours which means I must have designed them sort of right! Funnily enough I found some old issues of Model Engineer magazine over the weekend and was just about to chuck them out when I thought, I msut have kept these for a reason - there was exactly that method of forming the radius you used so I'll definitely be trying that.

Good work on the axle boxes too and the wheels are amazing - so much work in those.

Nick

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