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

[Dan Dubeau]

Moved the strapping, hung the first sheet.




Different hue to the new one....doesn't match the old. Like when you local dive bar repairs that one broke ceiling tile and it stands out from the rest of them....might have to paint.

That's it for today. Golf @3, gotta get ready.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Important parts back up and running......did a much better job this time on cable management. Nice to have music while working again. Still lots to do...

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Chipped away on/off today and got everything except the chargers done. Still need to figure out how best to wall mount them.

Made a couple quick and easy hooks from scrap.





Now I can get back to some more important stuff.....

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Some strapping and longer wood screws were perfect (cheap, quick and easy). I put 4 on the 18v makita, but only 2 on the smaller ones. The m12/18 I'm not going to do yet, as I'm going to find/buy/trade for a combo one instead.

Took a bunch of other shit out to the barn, and will take another load again tomorrow. Debating moving my sheet metal brake/shear out there too, as that space would be pretty nice to have.....

Brought it in from out there years ago because I wanted to tear it down, clean it up and get it working nice again, but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.....it's just become a flat spot to pile shit on. Don't want to sell it either....

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Been a while since I've had a chance to make chips, or get back to the grinder project, but today/this weekend is it. Having to recreate the lost design has been fun (and soul sucking)....But the past 2 weeks or so I've hit a creative vein for CAD work that I had to mine, and have found the motivation to finish (re)designing the rest of the belt grinder tables and attachments so I can start building them again. I have it not only back to what was lost, but think I've actually made some of improvements to some attachments, and come up with a new one.

Enough talk, here's what I'm hoping to finish today.


I milled the table flat and square last night before dinner. A crusty old 1/2" plate I rescued from a barn floor at an auction about 15 years ago. So I threw a barely still sharp 1/2" carbide regrind at it first to knock the crust off 😀.



I also splurged and bought an assortment of belts (and powdered steel for canister Damascus) from Maritime knife supply that I'm anxious to try out on some up coming projects, so that's my big motivating factor to at least finish this table attachment. The other ones I can chip away at over the winter.



I can tell you, those 3m trizact belts are pretty awesome for sharpening, and I ran that kitchen knife through to only 1200g (bought 600, 1200, 2000) and it very easily does the paper trick under it's own weight, and shaves arm hair effortlessly 😀.

Also on the cusp of a major shop reorganization/machine shuffle too, but that's another story....This belt grinder has caused a disturbance.....

 

[jorogi]

So I threw a barely still sharp 1/2" carbide regrind at it first to knock the crust off 😀.

Jeez, you might want to hold off on any more of that stuff, I'm sure that design iteration V2.0 through V5.2 (or so) isn't too far up the pipeline 😛

 

[Dan Dubeau]

This is already v5 or 6 of just the main table lol. I don't need anymore reasons to stall building, it's shit or get off the pot time......

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Well, today didn't quite pan out like I was hoping, twas a day of many distractions, but I still managed to find enough stock and adjust the model to fit what I ACTUALLY had (7/8" shaft vs 1" designed, and adjust some block sizes....), then start squaring up and machining things. Not done, perhaps a few more hours tomorrow, but by end of day, I should have an adjustable table and a fully functional grinder (sans extra attachments of course). Then I'll probably actually do a complete build thread on it, instead of just snippets in this one....

Drilled the clamp screw holes at a 15* angle. A long time ago I read about using a ball endmill for spotting holes on angled or curved surfaces. I'll admit, I've never had to do much of it, maybe a dozen times or so, but when I need to, that's been one of those tips that works really well and is worth knowing. Spotted with a 3/8" 4fl ball, drilled 17/64" (M8), spotfaced with 3/4" endmill, then walked it out the end for a flat bottom, and finally drilled for clearance to a 0.3" depth. All Located with a pointed wobbler from scribe lines, and done for both blocks. I used a 15* angle block in the vise to set the angle.



Should have went deeper with the spot here, this one walked a bit on me. Not bad, but enough for me to notice....I corrected it on the bigger block, and it was fine.



Tapped m8 with my recently made tap wrench.




The rest should be pretty straightforward tomorrow. I'll be using the Tormach to round the ends but really wish I had a rotary table though.....Still undecided on how I'm going to do the bores. 2 slide fits, 2 press fits on the link. Leaning towards manually boring them, but will probably interpolate and save a setup.