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-steves-:
Thanks guys, you do know how to make someone feel very welcome :D (I couldn't find the embarassed smiley..)

I am "hoping" to get some more time on this over the weekend, however I am not sure how much I can do before having to splash out £150 on a cheap 30mm / 32mm indexable face mill, a cheap indexable boring bar and a half decent indexable parting tool. So these items will slow down my project as money is very tight after forking out for the lathe / mill and other hundreds of pounds worth of "bits and bobs" to have something to do on them. My tools are very limited but I do have managed to purchase the following: a face plate, a 4 jaw independant chuck, quick change tool post, a fixed steady, a chuck and MT2 taper for the tail post, a set of indexable lathe tools, a dial gauge, a magnetic dial gauge holder, a set of large files, some very small files, centre drills, BA and Metric tap and die sets, a selection of ME taps and dies, a set of metric drills, a small selection of end mills, a grinder / sander, last but by no means least, a pair of safety glasses and thats all from October :bugeye: hence I am skint now, lol...I have to say the outlay has been far more than I was anticipating and I dont seem to have 1/4 of what I need, still desperately need some reamers yet too :( I guess it will all build up over time, but its just so annoying and frustrating sometimes when you read, do this with "X" tool, and you dont have it, seems to be happening a lot at the beginning, but I guess its something everone goes through and even after a number of years no doubt there are items which you dont have and still need to get.

If anyone can see I have missed some form of "obvious" tool, please let me know as I have a tend to set up a prioritized list of things to work through to buy, thats how I bought all the above, ok, it meant selling lots of radio control plane stuff, but I kinda got there in the end.

I will not be able to do anything next week as i will not be near the house where the lathe / mill is, its going to be a slow process, so please dont wait up for updates :coffee: I might have a bash at a couple of 16mm buffers from ali over the weekend, if I do mamage to get anything done I will of course take a piccy and post it up. Just got to go find some 7mm bar stock now to put my flywheel onto, the fun never ends does it ::)

So far this seems like a very nice place to be and I can see why you have this smiley ico :mmr:

-steves-:
Well its been a kinda busy morning today, making up for the fact I can't do any work next week.

As I dont have a decent face mill bit, I am leaving the rest of the Stuart 10V until I have a bit that will do it justice, its payday Wednesday, so hopefully I can get something ordered then, lol.

I decided to have a bit of a play and see what I could do.

So first of all I made a couple of 16mm train buffers for some rolling stock I am building, then I decided to make a new pulley wheel for my mamod stationary line shaft, just to see if I could, I didn't need one, I just wanted to see if I could do it. Also the grub screw was cut from a 3mm bolt and a head cut on it.

Here are a couple of the results, sorry about the poor quality of the pictures, I am not the best with a camera and the camera is only a cheapy, lol

-steves-:
Next on the agenda today was to do some more to the flywheel of the Stuart 10V, and here is how its going to be other than a bit of paint or varnish and a parting tool of some description down the middle of it.

Unfortunately the 5ba grub screw was missing from the kit, so I has a bit of steel bar, and a ba tap and die set, and sat down and made one myself.

Also the 7mm bar to do the work between centres, all I could find to hand was 8mm, so I had to turn that down to 7mm before I could start, all the joys of it all, lol

Stilldrillin:
Very nicely done Steve! :clap: :clap:

The best practice, is in the making of widgets. This builds your confidence for the important, (mustn't be scrapped) work..... :palm:

The flywheel looks very good! :thumbup:

David D

-steves-:
Cheers Dave, glad you like the flywheel, I must confess I am quite chuffed with that as I managed not to break it, it all seems to be running fairly straight and is drilled to the right size as it just about goes onto the crankshaft, I am sure it could be much much worse. Once I get my new parting tool I am hoping to put a slot down it.

Its been a very good day today for me, these little nick nacks as you say, do build the confidence a little and of course build experience which is something I seriously lack. Today I had part of the lathe pulled apart as it had some slack in it, I ended up replacing 2 stripped screws and tightening up a few bits here and there. I cant say what everything is called as I have no idea, but where it slide back and forward and whre it slides side to side and has 3 adjustable screws to make is slide properly, all had to be adjusted on both bits. I have absolutely no idea if I have done this right or wrong, or even if I was supposed to, but its made everything less slack feeling but nothing appears to be binding when turning the "knobs" and "stuff". This is when it would be really useful to have someone experienced about to say if I am doing right or wrong, and to show me once, how to do things and what to do and what not to do. Its really difficult when you simply don't have a first clue, just general knowledge and guess work, lol

Showed my Suzi how to use the lathe this afternoon and she also made a mamod pulley for the line shaft. As it was in effect "my/our" second attempt I made a couple of changes on how she should turn it, and I have to admit, hers did come out better than mine, but of course this was down to the "designer" LOL :) She did good :ddb:

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