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JCDammeyer's 42 projects

jcdammeyer said:
BTW, on the list of 42 projects is pulling the spindle and boring a slight recess to hold the WUT centered.
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I don't need a WUT. My spindle has a nice brake that can hold against any torque I apply to the drawbar nut.

HOWEVER! And speaking directly to your drawbar recess, I do have a centering washer on my mill quill. I turned it on the lathe. It's basically a shouldered washer designed to center the drawbar in the quill so it doesn't rattle. Part of the shoulder fits the inside diameter of the quill, and the bigger diameter provides a surface for the drawbar to push against. A modification of that concept might relieve you of the need to recess your quill. At that rate, there is a very very very slim chance to could get to project 41.......
 
Susquatch said:
I don't need a WUT. My spindle has a nice brake that can hold against any torque I apply to the drawbar nut.

HOWEVER! And speaking directly to your drawbar recess, I do have a centering washer on my mill quill. I turned it on the lathe. It's basically a shouldered washer designed to center the drawbar in the quill so it doesn't rattle. Part of the shoulder fits the inside diameter of the quill, and the bigger diameter provides a surface for the drawbar to push against. A modification of that concept might relieve you of the need to recess your quill. At that rate, there is a very very very slim chance to could get to project 41.......
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Unfortunately unless I create a smaller diameter draw bar there is no room inside the spindle bore for a shouldered washer or there would already be a shouldered washer.
The WUT with a non shouldered washer does the job of spindle lock quite well.
 
Different project tonight. Want to put some photos of my son Misha together for a support group we're attending. Everyone there has lost a child to death by substance. We're all doing a little presentation so I went through some old slides and needed to digitize them.
A quick search on the internet showed up a 3D print that threads into the filter and supplied as OpenSCad so that parameters can be entered for filter size etc.
Well no matter what I did the threading was not up to it. So I whipped up a collar to clamp to the outside of the filter ring and tapered so it can be glued to the tube.

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Just insert the slide, aim it at the LED lighting panel for back light, focus and click.

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This was from Greece 2010. I have no idea what I'm looking at. My other son took this picture. Not all his slides are well focused.

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That's cool. I've heard that modern cameras have the ability to make very decent renditions of old slides, but I was unclear about the hardware. My buddy went through a huge digitizing effort plowing through multiple shoeboxes of family archives, his dad was a prolific photographer. He used an older gen bed scanner & some clunky trays. Years later, the technology & quality / resolution has improved significantly. He wished he'd waited. But having a digital image is better than in being tucked away somewhere out of sight. Well, I hope you find some memorable nuggets & that the group involvement can help you & family along the healing journey. I don't want to imagine what that must be like.
 
PeterT said:
That's cool. I've heard that modern cameras have the ability to make very decent renditions of old slides, but I was unclear about the hardware.
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From what I've read all it takes is a 6 MegaPixel camera to shoot the equivalent of ASA 100 film. I'm not sure about that but what I did when I got my Nikon is took my old Pentax and Nikon on a shooting spree taking identical pictures with each camera. The intent was to develop the film and then compare the shots with the digital.
Well the film is still in the camera many years later. Not even sure where the folder is of all the digital shots of the same places. I think over time I realized that the digital was just so much better that I never finished the experiment.
My D800 has 36 MegaPixels and is a full frame FX model so the image sensor is the same size as a 35mm film image. For the 35mm slides that are sharply in focus the resolution is quite amazing.
 
I pulled out a box with some slides that my Dad made somewhere mid 50's I think. That would make the slide close to 70 years old. Unfortunately there's no date on it.
Here it is resized and from the original JPG to 800x544.
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And this piece of the JPG photo is 778x552 and 100%.
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The raw NEF file really isn't that much different.
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The 3D printed housing is a bit finicky to set up and I know I'm not quite in the full frame but the 105mm macro lens can't focus any closer. Still for digitizing slides I don't think it's too bad.
 
I found this old slide. Wondering if I should post it on @David VW post just to make him envious. Like who wouldn't want a yellow FIAT...
Well OK. The black 1964 MGB. Or in the background an RX2 rotary engine MAZDA.OldCars.jpg
 
jorogi said:
Ooooh, a 64 MGB re engined with a Mazda 12a (or were they a 10a). That would be cool.
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Not sure I'd want the engine in an MGB. I think eventually the RX2 engine failed so my dad got rid of it. But he was trying out the latest new thing that's for sure.
OTOH, the tractor 1.8L overhead valve engine with twin SU carbs was pretty nice.
 
The most useful swap I remember seeing was a Jaguar ( or maybe corvette?) rear end swapped into a Datsun 510. They all have independent suspension but the Jaguar was limited slip. So going around a pilon, even if the inside wheel lifted off the ground it didn't matter because the outside got full torque.

So cool.
 
Swapping a Miata rear end with LSD into a small car like a Datsun roadster is pretty popular, and almost required if you're also putting in a more powerful motor like a SR20 or such.
 
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