The Machine Work Thread

[kazlx]

Made some fixture jaws for these parts.

 

[Bears Fan]

Those are works of art! Nice job, Kaz

 

[kazlx]

Thanks! Today's project. Tool organizer for a lot of my misc stuff. Various tools that always seem to go in and out of collets. Tried my hand at some 3D surfacing. Went really well, except really needed to grab the piece with 2 vises, but need to get some matching jaws for all of them.

 

[Riggerson]

Some hammers I made to give out as Christmas presents. They're stamped with the initials and the year. I used forum member AP_mech's general design as a template.

 

[Bears Fan]

Great looking hammers

 

[txvwnut]

Hubba hubba!

 

[Hephaestus29]

I milled a flat on this ball bearing today for
the purpose of clamping irregular or unparallel
shaped pieces. Then I stoned it with my
precision ground flat stones and made it flat
enough to stick to the side of the vise jaw.
I did wipe all the oil off of the jaw.

 

[iajonesy]

Those are great looking hammers. I hope you are my Secret Santa.

Mike

 

[txvwnut]

I milled a flat on this ball bearing today for
the purpose of clamping irregular or unparallel
shaped pieces. Then I stoned it with my
precision ground flat stones and made it flat
enough to stick to the side of the vise jaw.
I did wipe all the oil off of the jaw.

Now that’s when you know you got a good flat surface.

 

[Hephaestus29]

Now that’s when you know you got a good flat surface.

I used a Solid Carbide cutter on it so it didn’t
get magnetized. I tested it, it wasn’t attracting
anything.

 

[Griff93]

I made a tapered plug for a broaching a keyway inside of a hub to hook to a hydraulic motor. I turned the piece on my new TL2 then put it in my bridgeport to cut the slot.

2018-11-25_06-32-29 by Griffin93, on Flickr

2018-12-16_08-14-07 by Griffin93, on Flickr

2018-12-16_08-13-01 by Griffin93, on Flickr

 

[kazlx]

Some 304 stainless flanges.

Some brass bottle openers for a Secret Santa gift.

 

[Bigblue&Goldie]

Kazlx, quit posting all of this eye candy and start making some cool stuff for us to buy!

 

[kazlx]

I’ll try lol

 

[kazlx]

I'm almost starting to like 304. Almost.

 

[4 FN 27]

I'm almost starting to like 304. Almost.

I'm liking it!!!!

 

[kazlx]

Thanks!

 

[E.rodz]

super excited that me an a friend went in on a couple old dinosaurs one is a fixer upper that needs new cars and rails as well as a new monitor the other is a turn key unit it was in awesome shape! i cannot wait to see what we can make with these! I am currently learning 3d cad. and now cam. and cnc programing! i never thought in a million years that this is the direction that i was going to end up.
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[mgermca]

Wow!

See guys, this is what Santa brings you when you haven't been naughty all year!

 

[gte718p]

super excited that me an a friend went in on a couple old dinosaurs one is a fixer upper that needs new cars and rails as well as a new monitor the other is a turn key unit it was in awesome shape! i cannot wait to see what we can make with these! I am currently learning 3d cad. and now cam. and cnc programing! i never thought in a million years that this is the direction that i was going to end up.
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I'm jealous.

A HAAS that needs new rails, cars and monitor is a money pit. I would run fast from that. You can by another good unit for the cost of parts and calibrations on it. HAAS doesn't make anything simple. They list a price now, but say they must be installed by a certified installer. I'm not sure if it is still the case, but previously they wouldn't even sell you the parts. There are were some after market bearings available, but at 2x what HAAS charged. Of course even at 2x the price, it still ended up being a 1/3 of the price if you have to pay a HAAS tech to do them. Not hard, but it does take a certain level of attention to detail and measuring knowledge to get everything back square and to the precision of the mill. Then it is another battle to convince the electronics that everything is good.

It is good to have spare parts for the turn key unit.

 

[4 FN 27]

super excited that me an a friend went in on a couple old dinosaurs one is a fixer upper that needs new cars and rails as well as a new monitor the other is a turn key unit it was in awesome shape! i cannot wait to see what we can make with these! I am currently learning 3d cad. and now cam. and cnc programing! i never thought in a million years that this is the direction that i was going to end up.

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You will have fun...

I know the guy in the picture...good old "Mikey J"...he has been moving my machines since 1997...great guy and great company.

Here he is moving in my Mill...lol...

 

[kazlx]

Watch out, it's a slippery slope lol.

 

[Griff93]

Yes it is. It's a very slippery slope. We added two more cnc mills to our shop the other day. They are bridgeport torq cut 22s. Nice thing for us is we already had a Bridgeport VMC1000 so the controls are the same and the tool holders are identical.

2018-12-28_08-50-27 by Griffin93, on Flickr

 

[E.rodz]

I'm jealous.

A HAAS that needs new rails, cars and monitor is a money pit. I would run fast from that. You can by another good unit for the cost of parts and calibrations on it. HAAS doesn't make anything simple. They list a price now, but say they must be installed by a certified installer. I'm not sure if it is still the case, but previously they wouldn't even sell you the parts. There are were some after market bearings available, but at 2x what HAAS charged. Of course even at 2x the price, it still ended up being a 1/3 of the price if you have to pay a HAAS tech to do them. Not hard, but it does take a certain level of attention to detail and measuring knowledge to get everything back square and to the precision of the mill. Then it is another battle to convince the electronics that everything is good.

It is good to have spare parts for the turn key unit.

. Yep that is a slippery slope indeed. We bought it with the intent of just using it for parts. It has a new control system. We got it cheap enough that it was still worth it.

 

[E.rodz]

You will have fun...

I know the guy in the picture...good old "Mikey J"...he has been moving my machines since 1997...great guy and great company.

Here he is moving in my Mill...lol...

Lol. Small world ! What is the name of your company? What do you do ?

 

[4 FN 27]

Lol. Small world ! What is the name of your company? What do you do ?

I say this mud ball we live on gets smaller as I get older.

I keep the company name off GJ...part of the vetting process our customers use is searching the Internet...thus I would rather they not find us here.

I'll shoot you a PM...

 

[kazlx]

 

[Xicaque]

Beautiful!Wish I had one of those toys

 

[stioc]

^nice man! That batch of "TOP" blocks in the vise...are they on top of a 1" sacrificial plate? or did you machine them out of that thick plate? if so do you flip that whole plate over and then machine it down until the individual pieces fall out?

Is that powder-coat?

 

[Xicaque]

Some hammers I made to give out as Christmas presents. They're stamped with the initials and the year. I used forum member AP_mech's general design as a template.

Can I be your friend? Love tools

 

[Xicaque]

Kazlx, quit posting all of this eye candy and start making some cool stuff for us to buy!

No kidding! Does he have a site? I want some of that

 

[kazlx]

^nice man! That batch of "TOP" blocks in the vise...are they on top of a 1" sacrificial plate? or did you machine them out of that thick plate? if so do you flip that whole plate over and then machine it down until the individual pieces fall out?

Is that powder-coat?

I just clamped a big piece of 1"ish plate in my middle vise. Sort of sacrificial. Don't plan on cutting into it, but has a few little marks. I skimmed it true in place before mounting material. Then I used the tape and super glue method to hold down a piece of .125 aluminum. (parts were .117 or so thick, metric call out...3mm?).

Basically tape on top of plate and bottom of parts material then super glue them together. Let it cure and then program to cut about .005 below bottom of material. When they are done, I just popped them off the plate and tumbled them. No machining on the back side. Picked out a clean piece of new material specifically with no gouges or marks. It's black anodize.

 

[kazlx]

No kidding! Does he have a site? I want some of that

I do. Sig has my IG and you can contact me there and see more pics or PM if you want more details. I make a few of my own things and job shop type work. My full time day job isn't machining, so it's really just nights/weekends/extra time when I have it.

 

[stioc]

I just clamped a big piece of 1"ish plate in my middle vise. Sort of sacrificial. Don't plan on cutting into it, but has a few little marks. I skimmed it true in place before mounting material. Then I used the tape and super glue method to hold down a piece of .125 aluminum. (parts were .117 or so thick, metric call out...3mm?).

Basically tape on top of plate and bottom of parts material then super glue them together. Let it cure and then program to cut about .005 below bottom of material. When they are done, I just popped them off the plate and tumbled them. No machining on the back side. Picked out a clean piece of new material specifically with no gouges or marks. It's black anodize.

Ah right, the tape and super glue trick. It's been too long since I touched my cnc mill I feel like I don't remember half of what I used to know

 

[E.rodz]

machined up a torque arm mount for my Chevelle that I am building on and old school bridgeport no cnc. work this time however i cannot wait till i can lean how to do that too!

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[4 FN 27]

machined up a torque arm mount for my Chevelle that I am building on and old school bridgeport no cnc. work this time however i cannot wait till i can lean how to do that too!

Very cool. I need to stop over next week.

 

[stioc]

^ really nice E.rodz! I take it a rotary table was involved in the process and a bandsaw to cut off the end clamps?

 

[zmotorsports]

Turned another Model A flywheel tonight.

Put it on a diet of about 13 pounds.

 

[E.rodz]

Very cool. I need to stop over next week.

hopefully it will be more than -25f by then.just let me know when and we can set that up.

^ really nice E.rodz! I take it a rotary table was involved in the process and a bandsaw to cut off the end clamps?

no rotary table made it in three pieces because i did not have the material around big enough still need to face it off yet and sand the outside and router the edges yet but getting closer

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Still learning, but made an indicator post adapter thingy with plans from Adam Booth / Keith Rucker to mount my new mitutoyo indicator to my new noga holder: