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Rob.Wilson:
:jaw: :jaw: :jaw: :jaw: cracking job Wes :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

most impressed with the shaper action :med:

Rob

Powder Keg:
Well I was going to hit the shear hot and heavy today. I had a bit of 4340 shaft that I am going to make my parts out of. I started cutting a couple slices off the end and my bandsaw went dull. GRRR... About a half hour after the store closes for the weekend. Guess It will have to wait till Monday.

AndyB:
Hi Wes,

Bloody good show :clap:

My grandfather used to make bicycles, mostly modifications to old ones, such as steering backwards (turn the bars left and the wheel goes right...never could figure out where the gearing was as it was all inside a standard headstock!), pedalling forwards and the bike went backwards, eccentric wheels etc.

They were all built for fun and used to raise money for his local community that he worked very hard for...at 8o years old he used to cut wood for the 'old people' who were in their 60's! :lol:

It is fascinating to see how your work is carried out.

Good luck with the rest.

Andy

Powder Keg:
I wanted to get the hubs finished up. Here is the rear hub. Today I mounted it in the arbor that I had made a while back. I used it in my lathe to machine the angles on the ends of the hub.

I then transferred the lot to my mill. I chucked it up in my dividing head and began drilling 20, 5-40 holes. I managed to do that without breaking a tap. Here you can see the angle that I drilled the holes too.

While my mill is all out of whack, I'm going to drill the front hubs. Stay tuned

Powder Keg:
Man there are a lot of holes in a hub!!! It took quite a while to drill and tap all 60 holes.

Working the dividing head... A friend snuck some pictures while I wasn't looking.

I center drilled all the holes so the drill bit wouldn't wander.

All done\o/

Next will be my little shear to start cutting spokes.

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