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Offline Darren

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Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« on: August 23, 2012, 12:47:51 PM »
I have some 5" SS pipe that  needed to be cut .... pref square !!

So I needed a large fixed steady for the lathe ... an old rear brake disc and an old lorry part for the base. Both parts are cast steel which is very nice to machine.


Cleaned the brake disc up a little to get rid of the rust ... it's a rough quick finish, will tidy later..

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Need to make some locating slots for these three fingers from my normal sized steady

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Used the milling machine and bolted the disc to my rotary table to index at 120 degrees

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Cut one flat edge

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Starting the base from a part from an old lorry ..

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Which fits here

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Cut a slot in the base to fit the brake disc

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Cutting the bell off the disc

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And here we are, nearly done ... need to weld the two parts together

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A mock set-up to see if it all looks ok

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Re: Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 01:00:00 PM »
Darren

Good use for old brake rotors. Too bad a person only needs one or two steadies.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

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Re: Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 01:53:23 PM »
Ahhh...they say mother is the necessity of invention..... :coffee:

Very innovative Darren..... :bow:

Nice job...
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Re: Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 02:31:24 PM »
Nice work  :clap: :clap:
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Re: Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2012, 02:50:58 PM »
Excellent! I have a rusty brake rotor "ageing" to be reborn as a tramming aid.  Now I probably have to get onother :beer:

Just collecting my braincells together and trying to figure out how to make both sided really parallel. Probably have to mount faceplate first and that will need an adapter....

Pekka
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Re: Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2012, 03:44:48 PM »
Now....... That's blummin clever! :thumbup:

Well done Darren.  :clap: :clap:

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