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    Another Bandsaw Work Around - Holding Small Metal Pieces

    Sometimes I can live dangerously but as I said if you want to be completely safe then use a wooden push stick as I mentioned.
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    Another Bandsaw Work Around - Holding Small Metal Pieces

    Hi All, Another work around dodge. Cutting small pieces of metal and holding them securely while cutting them in the 14" metal bandsaw here which it was never designed to do. Small metal pieces are very difficult to hold securely when cutting them as the bandsaw blade will grab, snap, twist...
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    You Don't Do This Every Day

    Hi All, I had the suggestion (which I agreed with) that I needed to secure the firebox end of the boiler in addition to what I had already made so I quickly came up with the following. Quick and dirty but a very practical solution to have the firebox end well secured.
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    You Don't Do This Every Day

    Hi All, To continue. The front end of the boiler has to have a small circular recess machined into it to fit the connecting ring as seen in photo 614,615 which mates the boiler to the smokebox. As the smokebox needs to be air tight, with no leaks, the two recess' need to be a very precise...
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    You Don't Do This Every Day

    Hi Peter, It was fabricated by one of the best live steam boilermakers in the USA, Marty Knox. It is an all welded steel boiler with copper tubes rolled in. I think that only two were ever fabricated by Marty and he doesn't fabricate this type of boiler anymore. It is for a Martin Lewis (Little...
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    You Don't Do This Every Day

    Hi All, At the limit of what my mill can do. The boiler is so wide I cannot clamp it directly to the tee slots on the table so I had to think up - construct the custom clamping parts seen in the last photo. It looks simple but it took a week of hard slogging to get to this point. Do you want...
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    Toronto and Area Members

    HI All, I belong to the Toronto Society of Model Engineers (TSME). They now have online meetings and we talk about everything metalworking in addition to model engineering topics. Usually held every second Friday evening in the month starting at 7:30 pm. See www.tsme.ca.
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    When Conditions Become Pressing!!

    Hi All, To finally finish this off. The full locating fixture in photo 679. Everything shown was needed to ensure total alignment and that NOTHING moved. All of the above just for one operation. PS: I have over 80 pages of machining instructions for the making of these couplers which includes...
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    When Conditions Become Pressing!!

    Hi All, The next operation was to precisely align the broach square to the front face of the ram. To accomplish this I machined a stout squared angle piece with a central slot which precisely fit the top end square on the broach (photos 675, 676). This was then set against the ground extended...
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    When Conditions Become Pressing!!

    Hi All, To continue, For the part holding fixture which was used in this case, the first operation was to set the first part of the fixture dead square to the front face of the arbor press ram. The photos show how this was done and the progressive additions to the fixture to produce a complete...
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