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Machine shop land: Pics & Videos from my job

Seeing all these pics sure makes me want to get my cnc mill wired up and running. Maybe if I can get it wired and running and start making some money with it my partner will not want to still sell it. It IS in MY shop and he hasn't paid me rent to store it while he tries to sell it. Or even come around in a couple months or even called. I'll be pissed if just as I get it hooked up and get back into playing with it then out of the blue he shows up wanting to sell it again.
 
I have no desire to be a machinest for a job (I prefer design). But man do I love walking into a shop and see metal being cut. I could watch it for hours and it makes me all giddy.

Love all these pics man. Its really awesome to see cool stuff built from scratch. :thumb:
 
Shee-it, not a ton of material left on the edge of that counterbore. Assuming socket head cap screws sitting flush in those counterbores? Looks like you would have had to have a light touch de-burring/chamfering those...:bow:
 
tRustyK5 said:
Shee-it, not a ton of material left on the edge of that counterbore. Assuming socket head cap screws sitting flush in those counterbores? Looks like you would have had to have a light touch de-burring/chamfering those...:bow:
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Yeah it's for socket head cap bolts. That's how it's spec'd and yes it's really close. These fit in one end of that stack of rollers I posted earlier and there's just not much room.
I know we could redesign that whole setup and have mentioned it but the customer is set in their ways. It works though, we've been making these for years.
 
Yeah, looks finicky in that area. Oh well, he who pays, says. :waytogo:
 
Made these odd little coupler shafts for a cotton gin. 1-15/16" to 1-7/8" with three 1/2" keyways and some 9/16" holes through the 1/2" keyways. Not sure why they wanted the keyway run through the step but they did so that's what they got. :D

 
I've been really busy as usual at the shop but not much in the way of "interesting" stuff.
This morning I finished up some eccentric bushings I thought you guys might find cool.

4" long with a 3-3/16" OD and 2-3/16" bore. 1/2" keyway and some oddly placed (or angled I should say) 3/8" tapped holes for set screws. It's how they're spec'd.


 
Nice job. Looks good. You offset bore them in a 4 jaw or ? On a conventional milling machine drill, end mill and boring head bore it? How did you machine it?
 
rdn2blazer said:
Nice job. Looks good. You offset bore them in a 4 jaw or ? On a conventional milling machine drill, end mill and boring head bore it? How did you machine it?
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Turned the OD of all four then indicated the sample in the 4 jaw and zero'd the indicator on the highest point. Swapped in the material I turned and used the indicator to make sure the jaws were repeating well.
Drilled, bored, and then took my OD turning tool and just barely touched the OD in one spot so I knew where the high point was. Scribed that line down the side and across the face and used that to align my broach for the keyway.
Did the set screw holes in the mill. The angled one I just flattened off a spot with an endmill then drilled.
 
I wish there were more updates but most of what I do I don't think anyone would find all that amazing. Been doing a lot of repair type machine work and hydraulic stuff.
I did make this nifty little spindle for a guy on Friday though. Started with 2-1/4" square stock for size reference...


 
Cool Thread! When block boring is accomplished in-frame how are all the shavings removed after the boring is complete?
 
fear_nothing said:
Cool Thread! When block boring is accomplished in-frame how are all the shavings removed after the boring is complete?
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Oil pan is off and oil/water passages are taped off. Then it's just blown out when we're done. It's all on the mechanics to do this though not me. I do my best to not make a mess though.
 
Had some printing/graphics place come in with a rush job. Needed this little aluminum bracket machined for one of their machines. Found a hunk of aluminum that looked like it had been used as a punch but cut out a section that was decent enough to turn into this. :)
Yes, the bushing is supposed to be sticking out like that. No I don't know why.



 
I think I've mentioned our shop does a lot of hydraulic work. A really common job is machining new rods as they get bent or the chrome gets chipped. This one needed a new clevis for the end that wasn't an off the shelf size so I made one from scratch.

 
Besides rods it's common to need caps and other parts as well. This customer split the cap on his hydraulic cylinder so I machined him a new one to match his existing tube and threads.



 
A customer has an older forklift he's going through and needed a better system for the crank pulley/stub shaft that drives the accessories as well as the hydraulic pump.
He wanted it to split apart but obviously everything needed to register on one another to keep it all concentric. Here's what I came up with.








 
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