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DavidR8's shop shenanigans

Did a quick job for a neighbour.
Delrin, 2" OD, ~3" long with 1" bore, 2-1/2" deep
Had a scant 6" length and needed two 3"ish long parts.

Faced one really crooked off square end, ended up with 5-7/8"
Sliced in half at 2-15/16"
Faced and chamfered the blank end.
Flipped in the chuck, faced and centre drilled .
Used a 15/16" Deming drill to remove the bulk of material.
Used boring bar to bring to 1" ID bore.
Eased the edges.
Done
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In the mid 80’s Al in our group of British bikes had a 360.
One ride he went in front of us and tried to piss on us standing on his pegs it turns out that wind thing is correct.
Never piss in the wind.
 
Ever since I got my 12x37 lathe the carriage has been snug near the chuck.
When @Dabbler was here for the meetup he had a look at it. Suggested that I remove the cross slide from the apron and check for bent axle on the carriage hand wheel. (Or at least that’s what I think John said). Also suggested that the gear rack looked to be a bit low near the headstock end.

Proceeded to dig into this today.
The rack is pinned but I did loosen the SHCSs and lift it up a tiny amount.

Apron was easy to detach from the carriage. Just two SHCSs and two roll pins.
Removed the gib strip and its holder at the rear and I was able to push the carriage away from the apron.

What I discovered was that the carriage was able to easily slide the full length of the bed without any binding. Likewise the apron could be cranked without restriction.

Stoned the rear gib strip and under the rear bed way and put it all back together. Gradually tightened the rear gib strip till there was light resistance when cranking the hand wheel.
Voila, problem solved. I think there was a high spot under the rear bed way combined with a low gear rack causing it to bind at the headstock.
Sorry for the lack of pictures but I was an oily mess!

What I did notice is that there’s no drain plug for the apron :(
 
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Managed to get the air compressor and dust collector wired in over the past two days.
The compressor wiring is just run to the breaker for now. Need the motor switch to arrive so I can complete that.
Having them outside the shop makes a HUGE difference to the sound level inside the shop. Sound level outside is very low.
Just need to run the piping for the compressor and ducting for the collector.
 
I had the day off today so I spent some time in the shop clearing and cleaning so I have a clean slate for the CNC nill conversion.
Cleared off the bed of the CNC router, remounted the monitor to the wall and fired it up.
Started up in the wrong screenset. Hmmm that's odd I say to myself.
Went to home all axes and nothing happened. Looked in the control box, you all lights are green, software didn't throw any warnings.
Went into the software config panel and all the homing settings were gone and the soft limit settings was unchecked WTF?
And on closer inspection all the settings are wrong. Again, WTF?
Turns out the file that retains all the machine specific settings is corrupt.
I have to redo all of the setting so it will work again. Sigh.
 
DavidR8 said:
I had the day off today so I spent some time in the shop clearing and cleaning so I have a clean slate for the CNC nill conversion.
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...... You just took everything out of the shop, enlarged the work space, doubled the storage, scrubbed every nook and cranny twice, painted the joint top to bottom and categorically itemized and inventoried everything down to the last paper clip....... What could have possibly needed cleaning?:eek:
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DavidR8 said:
Managed to get the air compressor and dust collector wired in over the past two days.
The compressor wiring is just run to the breaker for now. Need the motor switch to arrive so I can complete that.
Having them outside the shop makes a HUGE difference to the sound level inside the shop. Sound level outside is very low.
Just need to run the piping for the compressor and ducting for the collector.
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I'd like to see this when you do this, I've got to do something myself, preferably so it only runs when the shop lights are on.
 
DavidR8 said:
Managed to get the air compressor and dust collector wired in over the past two days.
The compressor wiring is just run to the breaker for now. Need the motor switch to arrive so I can complete that.
Having them outside the shop makes a HUGE difference to the sound level inside the shop. Sound level outside is very low.
Just need to run the piping for the compressor and ducting for the collector.
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Plumb in a 1/4" feed to the nearest neighbour so he can fill a tire and you'll never have a complaint about the noise
 
140mower said:
...... You just took everything out of the shop, enlarged the work space, doubled the storage, scrubbed every nook and cranny twice, painted the joint top to bottom and categorically itemized and inventoried everything down to the last paper clip....... What could have possibly needed cleaning?:eek:
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Well true to form I’ve been slacking. And truthfully I never cleaned off the workbench, table saw or router table since I moved back in. So it’s a mess.
 
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