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Bogstandard:
If you think your milling skills are up to it.

Not a puzzle, but a whatnot thingymajig.

http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/StepByStep/TwoSlider/twosllider1

The rest of the site also has some good stuff on it.

I have attached a PDF of the whole article, just so you can take it to the shop with you.

Bogs

AdeV:

--- Quote from: craynerd on November 17, 2010, 03:11:02 AM ---
AdeV - AMAZING !!! Haha, my wife has just taken a look at the red one with my name engraved and even she was blown away!

--- End quote ---

I wish I could lay claim to them, but twas not me who produced them. I'm just impressed by them... I recall working with a program called Truespace some years ago (hmm, about 15 years ago, ouch) which could produce renders of similar quality.... but it would take about a day and a half to draw, and another day to render, on the sort of kit we had. And even then, it wouldn't be a "cad quality" drawing, i.e. you couldn't dimension it.

jim:
excellent!

Divided he ad:
Nice! Little confusing Xmas gift.... I like it :lol:

Going to have to make sense of this one :coffee:

Slowcoach, Rob... Where were your lunch breaks when I was hunting for CAD help with renderings of my little torches?

In the end I used the world famous Crap-o-Cad program (from Bogo industries Crewe Ltd) Doesn't quite look as fancy as yours (only cost about 20p/50c though) but got the message across on John Somers web site alright... Well, John-som and Wongster Both followed my scrawlings, and their torches worked too! :jaw: anyway... I digress :offtopic:

I'm going to have to give this a go Chris.... After I have it all in my head! :scratch:

Ralph.

raynerd:
Slowcoach - I`m glad your going to make one. Please bear in mind that I didn`t think of this - I got the idea off the internet and a chap kindly explained how his worked. I`m not sure where it comes from or who made it - I guess it is a classic puzzle but I have to admit, I`ve never seen it before.

I have just started work on my second yesterday made of brass. This one has an addition in which the centre core of the top piece is drilled right through 6mm, through the lid. A 3rd part is made, consisting of 6mm dia top, thickness of the lid and a shoulder where it goes to the width of the main core. This piece is bored throught the main body with a hole that aligns with the hole in the core of the lid piece. A thin single notch is milled in the top so that this new core piece can be spun from the top of the lid by turning with your thumb nail in the notch.

This new piece slides inside the bore of the core of the lid piece. It will block off the hole that allows the balls to escape for release (through into the main bore) unless it is turned to align its hole with the hole of the core. The lid and core will then need aligning as usual. This new piece will also be sprung loaded separately so that is can be depressed (although that won`t actually do anything - depressing it will move the hole out of line (vertically) and block the hole even if it is aligned horizontally. Only a simple addition really but will make it harder - quite simple you`ll just have to spin this piece in line before opening as usual.

Hopefully it`ll work!

OK OK - totally pointless, it is hard enough as it is, but I can`t resist trying to make it more difficult!

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