Darren's active projects

[YYCHM]

What the heck are you making? BTB - I can't expand your images for a better look for some reason?

 

[Darren]

Making a power drawbar. Not sure on the pics...I'll look into it

 

[Darren]

just a test



looks like flickr changed their embedding settings...

 

[Tom O]

Worked for me

 

[Darren]

Yea, going to be a pain in the ass to post pics on here now. It was a few clicks before, now its a lot more. I can't sit down for a beer and post pics. All my older pics are clickable, at least on my end.

 

[YYCHM]

Yea, going to be a pain in the ass to post pics on here now. It was a few clicks before, now its a lot more. I can't sit down for a beer and post pics. All my older pics are clickable, at least on my end.

Maybe mine don't expand on other devices either? PC WIN10?

 

[Darren]

are you using flickr? or hosting on this site? I take picks on my phone, flickr uploads them to the cloud, and i usually post on my laptop, when i'm posting on here. Worked just fine in the past, now the pics are all low res. Not sure what changed.

 

[PeterT]

post 155 on except 163 on are all thumbnail-ish size for me.

 

[Darren]

20220127_214503 by Darren Floen, on Flickr


20220129_215831 by Darren Floen, on Flickr
ok i think i might have this figured out...

 

[Susquatch]

@dfloen & @YYCHM

I couldn't enlarge those first few pics either. I encountered this separately to Craig. Just wanted a better look. I assumed you chose thumbnails instead of full size.

Later pictures are fine. I can practically see the grain structure of the steel in that test photo!

No flikr here. All direct uploads.

 

[Darren]

i will try the direct uploads in the future. thanks

 

[Darren]

Finished up the power drawbar today. I'm going to do a bit more with the airline but not until my shop piping is done. I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. It works awesome!

 

[DPittman]

Hey looks good!

 

[Dan Dubeau]

That looks great! A power drawbar is a very underrated addition to a mill.

 

[Darren]

I recently did a job for a fella and ended up with some Cat bucket pins. I was going to make some r8 tooling, but it turns out that the cross holes for the grease passages interfere with my plans. So i just messed around a bit and hogged some metal. I love taking whisp cuts of a few tenths to make er fit perfect, but sometimes you just gotta let er have it.

 

[YotaBota]

Show off,, lol. What was the feed and rpm?

 

[Darren]

lol was just playin. Thats 1000 rpm, i varied it a bit during the cut from probably 700-1400 to see what would happen. 0.005"/rev feed. On mild steel with a better tool it'll do a fair bit more and at a faster feed.

 

[YotaBota]

And that's a 2" or 2.5" pin?

 

[Darren]

yes 2", now about 1.4"

 

[Darren]

A while back, my new good buddy @Brent H was kind enough to give me a parting blade and holder suitable for my 16" SM that he couldn't use. Tonight I finally had some time to start working on it. Instead of putting the blade holder into a qctp holder, I cut the dovetail and made it into a QCTP holder out of it. Recently @YYCHM had some dovetail issues, so I thought i would post a few pics.

The first three pics are how i got the holder from Brent, the rest are of cutting and measuring the dovetail with pins and an adjustable parallel.

Here's a little video of power tapping the height adjuster. I was tapping a blind hole so the chuck was a bit loose. That and I bumped the y handle on my way to the beer fridge and I didn't have the DRO set...