ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
And done hopefully they work LoL
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- Thread starter ak diesel driver
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ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Well the unistall driver works good, took about 2-3 minutes to pull all 12
n8in8or
I never met a project I didn’t like
Nice!
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Had to remake the install driver as it wasn't long enough.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Guides in on one head took about 5 minutes. It's about -7* here so I put the guides outside for about 1/2 hour to shrink them a bit.
Will L.
Well-Known Member
Thats too funny. Here I think freezer, You walk out the door.
dbrannon79
I'm getting there!
I bet there's no need for a beer fridge in the shop!
@ak diesel driver do you do all your own machining? I which I had those skills lol
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
As much as I can. I'm just an amateur though
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
So I figured since I would be using my mill so much I better replace my way cover. The original was made out of plastic and not very flexible. I made a replacement out of rubber roof membrane.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
So I decided it was time to give my mill/drill a little attention. Friend of mine came over and we shimmed the column so it was square with the table, I didn't realize it was as far out as it was. Took a couple of hours to get it dialed in and in the process we discovered that the table isn't real flat. Most of it isn't terrible but there is a corner that's high. Thinking I might buy a stone and set it t so I can put it in a collet and do a little bit of surfacing just to get the worst out.
I've had a DRO for awhile now so I decided now was as good a time as any to install it. It wasn't a quick install.
Should help quite a bit for my girdle project I'm starting.
I've had a DRO for awhile now so I decided now was as good a time as any to install it. It wasn't a quick install.
Should help quite a bit for my girdle project I'm starting.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
So the hardest one to install was the Z axis. Thought I was going to wear out the threads on the fasteners it came apart so many times.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
The DRO has alot of cool function. For instance you can do a round bolt pattern
MrMarty51
Well-Known Member
Could the table be taken to a machine shop that planes heads, flywheels etc to get it ground flat ?
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
It would need to be a surface grinder to get a smooth enough finish. I already checked none that big in the state
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
So with all this wet snowy icy weather we've been having I decided it was time to build the wheel spacers for my backhoe. So I dug out my bandsaw and put a new blade on it. Dug out of the snow the chunks of steel I had been saving for it and started cutting them into rough circles. Then as luck would have it a piece shifted while I was cutting it and broke one of the guide arms. So I spent a day fixing that and now I'm turning the first one down to size.
Why am I making these? Cat makes a kit just for my backhoe. $1200 at 10 year ago prices.
Why am I making these? Cat makes a kit just for my backhoe. $1200 at 10 year ago prices.
MrMarty51
Well-Known Member
Use a torch. Make a couple pieces of flat, like 3/8ths wide and long enough to span the two or three tubed between the torch head and the handle. On one piece weld on a length of round stock, maybe 1/4” diameter. Make it so it functions kind of like a compass pencil thing.
Drill two holes in the little flats and weld nuts to one side and then a bolt through the other side to clamp the flats to the torch.
Crap, I dont quite knows how to splain it.
Any way then make a center lunch mark in the middle of the flat, fire up the torch, the piece of 1/4” round has a point ground to it, poke the point into tje center punch hole then walk the torch head around in the circle and that will cut You a nice round piece of steel.
Then the center punch hole can be drilled to whatever size is needed.
Yeah, like a compass pencil except for with a torch.
Drill two holes in the little flats and weld nuts to one side and then a bolt through the other side to clamp the flats to the torch.
Crap, I dont quite knows how to splain it.
Any way then make a center lunch mark in the middle of the flat, fire up the torch, the piece of 1/4” round has a point ground to it, poke the point into tje center punch hole then walk the torch head around in the circle and that will cut You a nice round piece of steel.
Then the center punch hole can be drilled to whatever size is needed.
Yeah, like a compass pencil except for with a torch.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
I actually have a circle cutting jig but I've never had much luck cutting thick steel. Probably because I almost never do it
A piece that thick would be hard at best without using liquid ox... or a big plasma .... You are doing it just fine Les...
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Yeah it's 2" thick and a finish diameter of 10". If it was any bigger in diameter I'd have trouble turning it in my lathe. The saddle won't go underneath it so I have to hang the cutting bit out further than I'd like. I switched it from a 3 phase motor to single phase of the same size and this is the first time I wish I had more power.