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Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

JustaDB said:
You gotta get that trapeze outta your bedroom...
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I wish it was a cool story like that. Basically rolled my ankle walking on loose gravel, and almost went down but caught myself. In the process of windmilling (while holding a 36" pipe wrench) I must have contorted myself enough to pull a muscle pretty good. It doesn't seem like that long ago my injuries had much cooler stories behind them lol.
 
David said:
Right now I’m telling the universe that I’m buying a half dozen spotting drills so that the ones I bought come out of the woodwork.
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I tried that with my countersinks a couple weeks ago. Also figured I'd find them today when I put the new ones I bought away in the place I keep them, but they're still MIA. Who knows. But then again I have the ability to look directly at the thing I'm looking for and not see it at all. For all I know I picked them up and moved them today without even realizing it lol.

Still have a bunch of stuff from work unaccounted for so I'm still holding out hope they're in there. I know it came home, I just don't know where I put it....I need a few other things from there too which is partly why I started cleaning up today....
 
The little Jacobs chuck i picked up at the pickering tool show last week had a short stub arbor attached. It was in poor shape and bent. I made up (modified existing?) Some wedges from small beam cutoffs and pressed it off after tigging a nut on the end.
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Last pic shows my previous one (import) that's had the same #43 drill in it for years lol. All I need to do now is make an arbor for the new one. Thinking I might make a step arbor to cover a few collet ranges, or maybe a tts one. Undecided....

Didn't feel like doing much, but just forced myself to chip away at some small stuff. Designed and programmed the drive wheel for the grinder this morning after fighting with a virtual machine,and cad install yesterday. Might cut some foam tonight after dinner. Trying to find some motivation to dig back into the grinder and finish it off........
 
Put some ribs on to smoke and decided to play in the shop for a bit. It's been a while.....

Decided to give my new r8-myford spindle nose adapter a try. Looks sketchy, but should be handy for an upcoming part.

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Also made some progress towards machining the foam pattern for my drive wheel.

Screwed a mdf sheet to my fixture plate

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Cut some foam and roughly laid out the peices so I can glue them down

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Currently drying, and i should be ready to make a mess after dinner.

Going to vacuum up as much swarf as I can before cutting the foam. Not looking forward to that cleanup either.....
 
Susquatch said:
Lemme get this straight. You attached a 4 jaw Myford lathe chuck to an R8 Arbour?

If so, WOW! Can't wait to see you use it!
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Yep, you got it.

I'm NOT expecting great results. Quite frankly I'm expecting a lot of chatter, and would be very (pleasantly) surprised if there wasn't. But it's the only way I can finish the OD of my belt grinder drive wheel with what I have right now. Well, it's not the only way, but one of 3. None are the best. I can either do it on the myford itself, and make some special tooling to reach the OD. I can mount it on the actual motor, clamp the motor down on the mill table with lathe tooling in the spindle/on the head and run the motor (slowly), while using the mill to feed. I can't run the mill spindle because I'd need the VFD to run the grinder motor....OR I could try this adapter and see how it works, and maybe learn something. Between low range and the vfd I can slow it right down to nothing, so it should be fine safety wise. I really don't think it'll be any worse than the myford itself with cantilevered tooling to reach the OD.

I thought of this a few months back while designing it, and was going to machine one because I didn't figure this would actually be a thing. But when browsing ebay for a Myford backing plate for my 5c collet chuck I found this (and a bunch of other myford adaptors that I also bought) and thought it was cheap enough to take a punt on it. I'm always willing to try something if there's a learning opportunity, or justification for a new tool purchase. :D. Quite frankly it's a ridiculous enough idea that I'm intrigued by it's possibilities :D. I HAVE done turning with both manual and CNC mills, so this isn't much different.....

Of course, the 4th option was to buy a bigger lathe....Believe me, I've been looking. Almost bought a 10" atlas for dirt cheap last week, but my only justification would have been to turn this wheel, and then I would have flipped it because I have no room for it, and want' something bigger and better than an atlas when I do get a new lathe. I would not have kept it and sold my Myford.
 
No big lathe here. Just a Myford super7 at home. Used to have a big one at my old day job. Now I just have various sizes of hammers.... lol

Would love nothing more than to put at least 14" swing in here, but it'll have to wait until I either get another shed built, or build the lean to out back to get the welding stuff out. Just no room :( But working on it....
 
Both halfs done. Not super happy with the surface finish, but I've only got 5000rpm to play with here.....
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If this casting works like I'm hoping this will open up some big possibilities and I'll buy/build a high speed router table. This will be the last time I cut this stuff on the tormach.....and yes the irony on me building a foam wire cutter SPECIFICALLY to cut this pattern and not using it is not lost on me......:)


Now im just waiting on the glue to dry so i can cut the middle spacer.
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Just for testing, I held the pattern up on the Myford.....Hmmm maybe I might try and do it on here anyway....
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Middle done. Just a 5/8" spacer to bring the total width to 2.625. I left 1.25" to clean up off the width and od for a finished size of 2.5x6"
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Just glued together with super tack and pinned so it won't slide on me. Set a paint can on it to dry overnight, and will attach a spru tomorrow and coat in a thin coating of drywall compound. No fancy coatings yet.....
 
Dan Dubeau said:
Just glued together with super tack and pinned so it won't slide on me.
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Hey Dan, one of the things I learned when I was gluing in the shower walls in a previous house was the idea of using blobs of glue instead of lines.

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Alternatively one can use alternating lines like this:

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The idea is to prevent trapping air between the glue lines. The air can escape between the globs or the alternating lines.

It prolly doesn't matter for what you are doing but it changed the way I think about applying glue from then on. Your flower pattern reminded me of that.
 
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