Thread: Spare time stuff

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Since the car has been giving me fits.. I went in a different direction to help clear the head. Something I've been playing with (mentally at least) is a "model" engine.. I say model that way as there are no plans.. no drawings on napkins.. just what comes out of my head and into the mill or lathe... the general direction is to do a crosshead motor. An example of a crosshead motor would be a locomotive...

So, out of a 1" plate of aluminum comes this..

Looks like a throw arm for a steam engine.

That would be another good example of a crosshead motor..

Very nice machining

Thank You.. I'm adequate as a machinist... it's something I enjoy doing. Taking something that is just a block and making it into something.

add a barrel and trigger mechanism and call it a pistola JK nice work Mike

Originally Posted by 34_40

I'm adequate as a machinist.

Understatement at the least!
I will keep you on my list of friends that can do the impossible!

Originally Posted by MelloYello

add a barrel and trigger mechanism and call it a pistola JK nice work Mike

Maybe the makings of a luger?? LOL..

Originally Posted by 36 sedan

Understatement at the least!
I will keep you on my list of friends that can do the impossible!

Stop! You're making me blush.. impossible? not hardly.. as I said, I'm adequate... I just don't know that I cannot do "stuff".. so I try and just do the best I can. I'm always trying to learn a new technique or technology.. even tho' my machines are old

And yes, I have piles of scrap that I have created also!

Neat work!!! Buddy of mine is a really first rate machinist and at least once a month makes some super intricate odd ball looking piece and leaves it on the table in the coffee room so everyone can look it over and wonder what the heck it is! Wendell always says that it came to him in a vision...... Most of the time it's nothing more then something to make people think and has no worthwhile purpose what so ever!!!!! Oh well, Wendell enjoys it!!!!!

My kinda guy!

Very nice work! This looks very interesting! A lathe and mill are on my wish list so I can do as you are.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Very nice work! This looks very interesting! A lathe and mill are on my wish list so I can do as you are.

Careful... they can become addictive! LOL..

The lathe and mill are a perk of my current job.

Another year or so, and I might be able to get tolerance +/- .0001

Right now, I'm usually good with a thou.

Had an interesting issue with the crossfeed on the lathe. I got tired of measuring after every cut. So, I calculated inch to mills, ( everything is metric at work) and made a few cuts using the verneer dial on the lathe... And botched the part.

Now for the punch line: the dial WAS in mills.

Dam. More practice needed.

I hate it when that happens! My lathe crossfeed is 2 to 1, the compound is 1 to 1.. so I gotta concentrate when on the lathe.. I've made more scrap because of that!