Machine shop land: Pics & Videos from my job

[Avery4jc]

More shafts, not sure what they do but a customer snapped one in half and needed three whipped up ASAP Friday afternoon.


I'm kicking myself for not taking pics of some of the bigger stuff I work on but it's difficult to really capture all the machine work in a picture or two. Just made a shaft that started out with a piece of 2-3/4" x 60" and was turned the entire length with various bushing areas, tapers machined on each end, bolt patterns drilled and tapped on each end and some keyways. No pic though because we were rushing to finish the overall job and as soon as I finished we started final assembly. Once it was in place there was nothing to take a pic of.

 

[Avery4jc]

Haven't updated this thread in a while. Still busy as ever so here's a snapshot of some recent stuff...

Machined some stainless wear rings for a customer. They heat them up and drop them on a shaft so they can swap them out when the lip of the seal wears out this area instead of replacing the whole shaft.

 

[Avery4jc]

We make big disc axles for plows. Here's the end of one I machined...


These are odd dimensioned shoulder bolts I constantly make for a local place that supplies the cotton gins.


A good customer of ours needed a special spindle nut socket that he couldn't find so I made him one...

 

[Avery4jc]

This was a big spacer with a register to keep things concentric. I can't even remember what it was off of, more than likely they never told me.


This was a personal project. My church needed a big 45 foot gate and stationary panel on one end of the property. I built it and these are the hinges I machined to make sure it would support that kind of weight and leverage. For size reference that tapped hole in the bottom fits a 3/4"-10 bolt.

 

[Avery4jc]

A company had some UHMW blocks that diverted ink (box printing company) that pulled the pipe threads out of one hole. They're complex and would cost a fortune to replicate so I machined a home-made stainless steel insert. Drilled and tapped the UHMW block out bigger and put sealant on the OD of this insert and installed it. Got them back to their original pipe thread.

 

[Avery4jc]

This is kind of a cool little job. They are metric bushings that slide over a 25mm shaft but they're stainless steel and have an aggressive knurling on the OD. I started with 1.25" solid stock.

 

[rdn2blazer]

Nice work brother. I've machined tons of parts just like this stuff. So love the machining trade. So cool to be able to make s**t.

 

[Avery4jc]

Nice work brother. I've machined tons of parts just like this stuff. So love the machining trade. So cool to be able to make s**t.

Thanks. One of these days I'm going to talk them into buying a small CNC lathe so I can really make things happen. Everything we do right now is conventional.