Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

cut two inches our of the belt today and put in a new splice on the end, hope to run it tomorrow if mother nature cooperates.
Mike, hows the shoulder?

put in my order for a new A10 Silicon Carbide crucible this morning.
DA

[dallen]

started working on the drip oilers today that I need for my shaper,

I borrowed one from a friend so this is more of a backwards engineering project then anything else. I'm not trying to reproduce ones like the borrowed one I just need a couple that will drip oil to lube the ram on the shaper when its running.

first up is a photo of the one that I borrowed that I have partially disassembled, thing looks like it was buried in the ground, its pretty dirty. you can also see one of the metering tubes that I have made



second photo if of the metering tube and the part that the sight glass fits into the turned end will be threaded 1/4" NTP.



This photo shows some bronze rods that I casted as I don't have any brass round stock, in the photo you see the valve rod from the borrowed oiler this is probably the most complicated part in the whole oiler. threaded up some 5/32 drill rod to make the needles out of.

[mite5255]

cut two inches our of the belt today and put in a new splice on the end, hope to run it tomorrow if mother nature cooperates.
Mike, hows the shoulder?

put in my order for a new A10 Silicon Carbide crucible this morning.
DA

Shoulders going good Dave, but every now and then if lets me know it hasn't healed 100 % yet, no castings from me yet, mixed up about 22lb of new greensand today, I'm hoping to do a few trial cast iron pours next week

Mike

[dallen]

good to hear that the shoulders doing ok.

I played with the shaper for a couple hours today since I have it running on OG&E now.

but I did get in a little bit of work on the oilers also

the first photo is of the bronze rods that I poured yesterday, I borrowed a slitting saw and after turning one of them round I cut a slot in two pieces to use to make the little lifter handle for the valve rods.



The second if of the second piece that I need for the sight glass, I made one last night and put a round viewing hole in it. The original has an oblong hole, as you can see from the one on the left in the photo I screwed up the one i did tonight, anyway I'm going to use it for now.



DA

[dallen]

I got to work on the drip oilers some the last couple of days, when the shop monster would let me off from gopher hunting. But after checking the sight that I found that has the glass tubes that I need, (checked measurements) I found out that a the stems (don't know what else to call them) will have to be remade. So I guess tomorrow I may fire up and cast a couple bronze rods 3/4" diameter to make the new stems with.

The levers that I made turned out ok. took a couple of shots at making them to get the methods lined out. Still need to drill the one for the pivot pin.


DA

[dallen]

Ok I haven't forgotten about this just put it on simmer for a couple days.

After some looking and such I've decided that I want the bodies too be 2" OD X 2" high, one reason I think that size will look ok on the shaper the 1.5 X 1.5 I feel will be too small. So now I just have to figure out enough stuff that I don't really need but think I can't live without to make up the minimum charge from the outfit that has the glass.

Till then I still have three more of the endcaps for the glass too make up. Here's a shot of one I did this morning out of a hunk of A36 plate, stuff turns like crap, or maybe its just my skills that are lacking, anyway I got one decent looking part out of the mess.


Also figured out that the holes of the oilers on the shaper are threaded 1/2 X 20 TPI so I threaded them also not my prettiest work but the jam nut spins on without any wobble.

And I also threaded up some springs stops for a better name, that go on the valve rods to put tension on the springs, their 8X32 Thread and just under .250 OD so that they will slide down in the stems. Which I get to remake as these are too short for the 2X2 glass tubes I want to use.

Sorry no photo of the Nuts.

DA

[latzanimal]

Sorry no photo of the Nuts.

DA

Its Ok to pass on the photos of your nuts....

[dallen]

still working on parts for the oilers, having to remake the two stems as I have decided to use the 2X2 glass tubes that I located which will require a stem longer the the two that I made to match the sample that I have.
Photos when something happens thats worth taking one of.
DA

[dallen]

got a bit more done on the oilers that I've been working on.

first photo is of the form tool that i ground out of a hunk of T15 tool steel to cut the inside radius on the end of the stem tubes, the end of the tube has to be about 1/8" in diameter from measuring the original one that I have as a pattern.



second photo is of the two new stem tubes along with the bottom's that the glass tube sits in. the ends will be silver soldered to the stems, I am at the point that I need to glass bodies now so I can do the final cuts to fit the cups to the glass tubes.

[dallen]

got a little more done on the oiler's going to use screw in plugs for the filler holes.