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Powder Keg:
When I was at Birks picking up My Shaper, We discussed a Shear that I had seen at his place a couple years earlier. I need to be able to cut my penny Farthings spokes to length easily. This was made by him and it works great!!! I plan on replicating it :borg:

As a note, He has some of those electrical crimpers. He has drilled extra holes in them near the shear points for the screws. This way if he needs to shear , say, 1/32" brass, It shears it off instead of pinching it like side cutters would. pretty smart!!!

Stay tuned :wave:

Powder Keg:
Making some progress\0/ I managed to get my shaper fired up and made some chips. Even though they were small :lol: :lol: :lol: I had a little trouble with some backlash in the feed for the clapper and messed up two of my endcaps. But no worries. I'm having so much fun playing with the shaper I'll just make two more. Here is a quick video.

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Powder Keg:
I managed to get two more end caps turned today. I still have to mark them and shape the inner hole. I'm pretty excited about using my shaper today. I had some fun :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: I'll probably turn one of the messed up caps into a template to mark the outside shape on the rest of the end caps. I'll then need to think about that shear to cut the spokes to length. I'll try and get some good pictures of the final result soon.

Stilldrillin:
Nice little video Wes! :clap:

Never thought of using an indexing head on a shaper. Probably 'cause I've not used one since the apprentice school, 1960...... ::)

Nice to see this project moving smoothly on again. :thumbup:

David D

Powder Keg:
More progress today\o/ I finished laying out some more lines.

The parts had some metal removed with the band saw.

I turned some jigs so I could hold the caps in my mill. Pretty simple stuff.

The jigs hold the part above the jaws really nicely.

After Milling I used my belt sander to round the ends.

One set of pedal end caps nearly finished. I'll finish sanding them tomorrow.

I still have to drill and tap the holes that hold the pedal rubber to size. I'll get this tomorrow also. Yeah, The pedals are almost done!!!

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