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Ontario Meet and Greet May 28th at BrentH's place
- Thread starter Brent H
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Canadium
Ian
Get on the road brothers!!!!
The chariot is gassed up, loaded and ready to fly! I shall depart shortly!!!
Chicken lights
Forum Pony Express Driver
We in ‘BertaGet on the road brothers!!!!
I can’t get much more on the road than a 12,000 km round trip LOL
Have fun boys!!
trlvn
Ultra Member
Thank you @Brent H for having us! Really enjoyed the day today and it was great to see you again and to meet the rest of the gang. I didn't take the pictures so I'll leave that for others to post. (Unless my ugly mug broke all the cameras!) Please thank your lovely wife for putting up with a bunch of strangers on a beautiful early summer day--it is all to rare that such days happen on a weekend.
The pork was delicious and the little 'show-an-tell' sessions were great. Fantastic day all around!! Thanks for taking the initiative and making it all happen.
Craig
(the one from Oakville)
The pork was delicious and the little 'show-an-tell' sessions were great. Fantastic day all around!! Thanks for taking the initiative and making it all happen.
Craig
(the one from Oakville)
Canadium
Ian
My thanks to @Brent H for hosting this meetup also as well as to all the guys who came out. The weather was great, the food was great, the shop and the conversations were awesome! More than anything else I was impressed with the depth of knowledge among the members. Made me feel like a novice among a bunch of Jedi Masters!
Thank you gentlemen for such a great time. Thoroughly enjoyed your company. A big hats off to Brent for hosting and allowing us to invade his space! Hopefully we can do this again.
It was a great day. It was wonderful to meet everyone and see all the great show and tell. Brent's shop is great lots of great equipment to see along with his great hospitality. The forum is great to share ideas, but call me old fashioned but nothing beats in person conversations and discussion and explanation. There was a lathe bought and sold at the meet, and for me a few new to me items to play with and the look on the wife's face when I told her there was an old railway tie from New Brunswick in the trunk was totally worth the dirty hands taking out there. In the end we had a little discussion that us Ont guys aren't gonna let those Alberta guys have all the fun, we don't know what the future will bring but hopefully there will be future events. My thanks to Brent and everyone for making it a great day for me.
historicalarms
Ultra Member
Well done boys...would it be out of bounds to ask for a legend of who's-who in the photos for us Ab boys.
Combustible, if one NB tie cranks your miss's...come on over, if you want some I have 30 or 40 old ties from a CN spur line in Ab....you can load yer car up with as many as it will hold.
Combustible, if one NB tie cranks your miss's...come on over, if you want some I have 30 or 40 old ties from a CN spur line in Ab....you can load yer car up with as many as it will hold.
Brent H
Ultra Member
My thanks to @Brent H for hosting this meetup also as well as to all the guys who came out. The weather was great, the food was great, the shop and the conversations were awesome! More than anything else I was impressed with the depth of knowledge among the members. Made me feel like a novice among a bunch of Jedi Masters!
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Ok : pic 1 is from left to right : Stelios (@thestelster )
Bill (@Payner)
Craig (@CWret)
Shawn (@ShawnR )
A piece of Craig (@trlvn)
And Bill (@combustable herbage )
Pic 2
Left to right:
Stelios, Craig and Craig and some goof discussing the sharpener
Pic 3 left to right
That goof from the sharpener (@Brent H or something?) then its Bill (@combustable herbage), Craig (@CWret) Craig (@trlvn) and Shawn (@ShawnR).
A big Thanks to @Brent H for not only hosting this gathering, but also hosting me for a couple of days. It was a great couple of days with education, laughs, great food and libations (not in any particular order). And a big thank you to all who were able to attend. It was great to connect with you all and put faces to names. The event was well worth the flying/driving/driving/driving...
We are a lucky bunch to have such a great forum and membership which facilitates these kind of events.
Cheers to all.
We are a lucky bunch to have such a great forum and membership which facilitates these kind of events.
Cheers to all.
Hi guys, just a quick follow-up of the barrel I showed off at our Meet and Greet. The tap I used to create the matt finish of the sighting rib was a 6 flute 1"-16tpi. Using it as a form tool, spinning at around 100rpm, and around 1ipm feed, on the milling machine, with a depth of cut around 0.008". Therefore the grooves cut are 6 flutes x 16tpi = 96 tpi.
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historicalarms
Ultra Member
Tell me more about this Barrel, it appears to have a set of "express" sights incorporated into its design.
That's really cool effect. But I'm mystified - if the tap is spinning against the work, how is it making the row of lines? I would have thought it would be like a super high helix end mill & surface would be essentially flat. I figured maybe ground off all but one row of 'teeth' behind the flute, but the tap looks intact.
Each row of teeth will be offset from the previous row by the thread pitch divided by the number of flutes.
What I want to know is how he stops it from vibrating like crazy as each flute tries to climb its own cut!
Hi Peter, the tap has not been modified. Its a little difficult for me to explain properly, but here goes. Think of making a thread on the lathe of 16tpi. So in one inch we've cut 16 threads. Now if we attach another tool post directly behind with another threading tool, and advance them at the same time, we're cutting another groove 180° to the first thread. So now in one inch we have 2x16 threads=32 threads, if you had 6 cutters starting to cut a shaft all equally placed around, then you have 6 x 16 threads=96 threads in one inch. Its the same idea as multi start threads. Did I make that more confusing?