Fire at work

[mite5255]

Mike glad to hear that your back to work, you take any pictures of your development work on the bike??

I took some Dave and I'll post a few soon,at the moment the parts are exhaust clamps for a xs 650 Yamaha but will also be making a sump extension

Mike

A problem with the photos, I took the photos on my phone and it has shit its self and have brought a new I phone, so I just put the old sim card into a spare phone and there is nothing there except my contact list i'll check my camera and see if I had taken and photos on it, I know I do have two photos of the completed pattern so I'll post them and try and explain what I did the best I can

Mike

[dallen]

Well I mentioned it somewhere that I was having problems with my lathe, here is a picture of the replacement for the offending part



And one with it installed on the Apron


I had to pull the damn thing back out tonight and open it op about 5 thousands so it would stop binding on the sides,

[mite5255]

I sure wish I had your engineering skills Dave

Mike

[dallen]

I'm trying to learn, guess thats the reason I'm still breaking cutters. I had a guy tell me that if you whittle on the stick long enough that part your wanting is hiding in it and you will eventually find it. you just have to keep cutting till only the part is left.

on a part like that if your clamping it down on the table directly, put a piece of card stock under it, and so you know when your getting close, grab the ole phone book (I know you got one you just won't throw away) keep it and use a piece of a page to stick down with some oil, ease your cutter down till it grabs the paper, the move over to the side. if you know how thick the paper is you can always get that close on flat stuff or edges without jamming the cutter. Cig papers work great also their about .001".

Its nothing more then practice, I mess parts up all the time. matter of fact I gotta go get some aluminum welding rod to fill up some holes that got drilled in the wrong place, or maybe it was that big hole I bored in the middle of the plate thats off about that much, anyway I gotta try to save a 12.00 hunk of aluminum flat bar.

[mite5255]

I'm trying to learn, guess thats the reason I'm still breaking cutters. I had a guy tell me that if you whittle on the stick long enough that part your wanting is hiding in it and you will eventually find it. you just have to keep cutting till only the part is left.

on a part like that if your clamping it down on the table directly, put a piece of card stock under it, and so you know when your getting close, grab the ole phone book (I know you got one you just won't throw away) keep it and use a piece of a page to stick down with some oil, ease your cutter down till it grabs the paper, the move over to the side. if you know how thick the paper is you can always get that close on flat stuff or edges without jamming the cutter. Cig papers work great also their about .001".

Its nothing more then practice, I mess parts up all the time. matter of fact I gotta go get some aluminum welding rod to fill up some holes that got drilled in the wrong place, or maybe it was that big hole I bored in the middle of the plate thats off about that much, anyway I gotta try to save a 12.00 hunk of aluminum flat bar.

Oh I thought you were a fitter and turner or a machinist by trade Dave, so I'm not the only one that breaks cutters and tooling by doing the wrong thing,
I have had one or two things try and leave the vice on my mill but I have most times been able stop before anything exciting happens like it did yesterday
I also found out early in the peace those cutters are damn sharp, what I would do is if I wanted to check out what I had just milled I would of cause turn off the mill then raise the cutter so I could get my hands underneath, the first time that I had done that the back of my had brushed across the cutter and lacerated the back of my hand and I bleed like a stuck pig due to the blood thinners that I'm on. I'll defiantly be giving the cardboard a go next time, damn good idea that

Mike

[dallen]

just a guy trying to learn and stay out of trouble. I learned that when you think you got that vise tight you better give it one more little tug just to be sure. I've messed up some pretty pricy cutters, I found that some times its better to use a big cutter then a little tiny one like a 3/8inch one. that block is 4140 tool steel, I found that it cut a lot better running a big 3/4 inch two flute cutter than a little half inch one. and i had to run it at just over mid speed. I will be glad when I get a three phase motor on it and a VFD so I can dial the speed up or down as needed.

the last couple of years work has been pretty slow so I get a lot of time to play with my toys, and I have a ready access to a decent metal supplier so I don't have any problems with getting like a 7 inch chunk of 1.5 by 2.5 4140 they just whack it off and don't charge me for the sawing. But believe me I mess up my share of the stuff, just like casting took me three tries to get a new handle for my recliner but I got a nice handle on there now.

Yep them blood thinners do cause you to bleed, mine make me bleed like a stuck hog, a little scratch and the red stuff just won't stop. I been taking Plavix for like 5 years.