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Made a new tool today. Management company wants some simple spindles, copy of existing. Simple tapered spindle that goes from 3/4" down to 1 1/4" with a 1/2" long 3/4" round tenon on the bottom.
Asked 2 turners to do it. 1 is no retired and the other is semi retired and 6 weeks to be done. I had made a duplicator a long time ago which I made from a pair of linear rails and pillow block bearings. It still had the setup for attaching the router to it which is kewl. I had it setup 90Âş from what it is now with the range of the pillow blocks restricted in travel because of the rail supports.
Now I had moved the rail supports out to max length and raised the rails up 5 1/4" and some other modifications.
Made a holder for the 1.26" square blank. The other end is held by a support with a screw through it into the end of the spindle blank. I made a 3/4" dowel that goes into the 3/4" hole in the square blank holder, glued. Then another 2 boards got 3/4" holes drilled in them to act as support that I could rotate.
1st try at it I rotated the blank and slowly moved the router up the blank. Came out horrible, lots of mill marks. Then I tried a pass from the bottom to the top of the blank and repeated that rotating the blank about 1/16" (cut) each pass. This worked great. If I get the work I need to make 35 of these.
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You can see on the "turning" below the router it's pretty rough. That was where I rotated the stock instead of doing a linear pass.
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Here's what it looks like with the linear pass and a quick minor sand
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Asked 2 turners to do it. 1 is no retired and the other is semi retired and 6 weeks to be done. I had made a duplicator a long time ago which I made from a pair of linear rails and pillow block bearings. It still had the setup for attaching the router to it which is kewl. I had it setup 90Âş from what it is now with the range of the pillow blocks restricted in travel because of the rail supports.
Now I had moved the rail supports out to max length and raised the rails up 5 1/4" and some other modifications.
Made a holder for the 1.26" square blank. The other end is held by a support with a screw through it into the end of the spindle blank. I made a 3/4" dowel that goes into the 3/4" hole in the square blank holder, glued. Then another 2 boards got 3/4" holes drilled in them to act as support that I could rotate.
1st try at it I rotated the blank and slowly moved the router up the blank. Came out horrible, lots of mill marks. Then I tried a pass from the bottom to the top of the blank and repeated that rotating the blank about 1/16" (cut) each pass. This worked great. If I get the work I need to make 35 of these.
You can see on the "turning" below the router it's pretty rough. That was where I rotated the stock instead of doing a linear pass.
Here's what it looks like with the linear pass and a quick minor sand
According to her I'll be a day behind her schedule.
Well, guess it's a good thing you called her so she could figure out her schedule so she could say you're behind it...
And.... It's installed.
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I put a couple screws into the back so we could removed it. Made leveling it so much easier without dealing with the plumbing sticking out of the wall. After it was all leveled we took the measurements for the pipes, put the back on and drilled the holes. Slipped right in and screwed it to the wall. Got there about 9:30 and out about 12:15 including moving tools in and out.
I put a couple screws into the back so we could removed it. Made leveling it so much easier without dealing with the plumbing sticking out of the wall. After it was all leveled we took the measurements for the pipes, put the back on and drilled the holes. Slipped right in and screwed it to the wall. Got there about 9:30 and out about 12:15 including moving tools in and out.
Hello.
Happy new year. I owe one of you 25 bucks plus shipping. Sorry about that. Still havent opened package.
1/8” wall tubing, welded with 3/32 7018. 10 gauge sheets are staged and ready for attachment as soon as I’m done building the new door. New trailer volume is 25 yards to the third power.
Cheers.
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Happy new year. I owe one of you 25 bucks plus shipping. Sorry about that. Still havent opened package.
1/8” wall tubing, welded with 3/32 7018. 10 gauge sheets are staged and ready for attachment as soon as I’m done building the new door. New trailer volume is 25 yards to the third power.
Cheers.
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About time you showed up after goofing off for so long.
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Got a M12 23ga pinner for Christmas. Needs a case to carry it around.
Started out with some 3/8" Baltic Birch and cut the sizes slightly over. Then mitered all 4 edges of all 6 pcs. Took the sides and taped them together in the right order and then flipped them over and put glue in the miters. Folded them up into a rectangle and taped the final corner.
Then applied glue to the miters of the top and bottom and taped them in place. Waited for the glue to dry.
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I chose 1" for the top and cut it off using the tablesaw. Then I cut a pc of Kaizan Foam and cut out the shape of the nail gun into it.
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Space to the left will be for a box of pins or two.
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Gotta get some hinges, a latch and a handle to carry it.
Started out with some 3/8" Baltic Birch and cut the sizes slightly over. Then mitered all 4 edges of all 6 pcs. Took the sides and taped them together in the right order and then flipped them over and put glue in the miters. Folded them up into a rectangle and taped the final corner.
Then applied glue to the miters of the top and bottom and taped them in place. Waited for the glue to dry.
I chose 1" for the top and cut it off using the tablesaw. Then I cut a pc of Kaizan Foam and cut out the shape of the nail gun into it.
Space to the left will be for a box of pins or two.
Gotta get some hinges, a latch and a handle to carry it.
You build houses that have names…..👍
I see what you did there.....🔇Would have been faster to pin it together....
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This week kicked my butt, I remove the plywood in the front entryway since it was only 5/8 of an inch thick, and I was not going to put tile on top of that bouncy floor…. Well, it was worse than I thought. Apparently water had gotten into the area under the floor because there was no caulking when the door was installed. (amateurs)
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I cut all of the floor Joists out and installed new pressure-treated blocking and I Sandwich it with two layers of concrete waterproof caulk.
then I had to re-level all of the new Joists, new insulation vapor barrier, and because of the door I don’t have a lot of room , so I shaved an extra 3/4 of an inch off of the new lumber to accommodate three-quarter inch plywood, glued and screwed, and then 5/on top…. Strong like bull.
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this is the tile I picked out it has a lot of different colors and the house is built, mostly like an old farmhouse feel.
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I cut all of the floor Joists out and installed new pressure-treated blocking and I Sandwich it with two layers of concrete waterproof caulk.
then I had to re-level all of the new Joists, new insulation vapor barrier, and because of the door I don’t have a lot of room , so I shaved an extra 3/4 of an inch off of the new lumber to accommodate three-quarter inch plywood, glued and screwed, and then 5/on top…. Strong like bull.
this is the tile I picked out it has a lot of different colors and the house is built, mostly like an old farmhouse feel.
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