Just wanted to Pop In

[Mav68erick]

Just wanted to pop in and say hey, I really like the new design of the new gantry it makes me sad = P, havent been doing to much working 6 days a week 7 last just to get extra cash to buy stuff for the Mill I got trying to get enough shop equipment around to wheres If I build a big polebarn late summer early fall I can fill it up = )

Heres a few things Ive made

Harley Sign, I made a small one for my cousin and was asked one day if I would donate for a cancer benefit auction for a mechanics wife at the dealership. was bummed it only got 80 bucks as the time I had in it plus scrabbing 30 bucks in steel because I had crap on the rail and everything tracked wrong, was hoping it woulda got more. I was gonna bid it to 100 but they wanted payment then and didnt have it on me. so I blew it up and got this. Machined the bolt heads and painted it wickeds fav color!





Guy at work bought a chopper, hes almost 7' so had to extend his forward controls 5.5 - 6" took some rough dimensions off his stock 3/8 alum, made some prototype 1/4" ( the ones in the back ) to see if I got the holes right as it was hard to measure ( I used a 12" rule ) after I traced everything on paper he said felt good burned another revised set out of 3/8 after he relocated the master cylinder as it looked odd being so far out and non symetrical. His chromer buddy said the steel was in to bad of shape to clean up ( it was pitted bad ) so he got some new stock and I redid them and fixed a boo boo I did when I offset one of the lines he didnt care but I did.



Modded the harley sign for a lightswitch cover, never finished it though I didnt like the lines coming down was gonna make them solid and move them out farther



These are my design rearsets for my sportster, the main piece is 1/4" and I laser cut I lost my dxf as I wanted to edit them some and was gonna see how nice I could burn them out. the arm though the stock ones that came with this was stamped and short, so I added .750 to give me more leverage and line me up bettter with the plunger, plus it made it so I have to press the lever as far. Then I just machined myself a clevis and







And heres a collet holder for the M Head Bridgeport I bought circa 1961, found some import collets and Endmill holders online for it, Brown and Sharp collets arent easy to find



Alot may not like the RUstoleoum Copper Hammertone but its 100 times better then the green that was on it! I dont wanna look at another gray machine..



Before ( 32" table, I like it cuz it perfect for a garage )



After



I plan on getting a VFD for it so I can slow the rpms down a little more as 275 is the slowest speed on it which is to fast for big drills or chamfering hopefully get that buttoned up in the next week or so, rebuilding an old atlas lathe right now sisters bfs gonna grind the ways on it hopefully tomorrow as its got a really bad wear mark that makes the saddle hard to move,

dont know why theres an attached image at the bottom, as theres nothing in my post that has an attachment

[jeepsr4ever]

Good stuff! I love the copper colored Bridgeport! We have a safety blue one in our shop. The old grey color was too depressing and we got rid of a few. Most of our machines are red, white or blue. :D

[wickedinhere]

Nice, the orange looks good on the black.I like the mill.

[Mav68erick]

wicked do you ever get your consumeable sticking error on your plasma, if the 45 shows that. Ive added delay at the end of a cut to help clear out the nozzle but it must be a controller issue because I can manually click the torch on and off to clear it, perhaps it doesnt like the speed of the signal being sent. Or perhaps its because of crap actually blowing back towards the nozzle but when I tear her down its always clean. Now that Ive figured out how to reset in the middle of a run its not to bad, and I havent really bothered to cut multiple mass parts as I more or less wanted the table for a fast prototyping machine

[Mav68erick]

Good stuff! I love the copper colored Bridgeport! We have a safety blue one in our shop. The old grey color was too depressing and we got rid of a few. Most of our machines are red, white or blue. :D

was gonna go safety orange prolly a good thing menards didnt have it. then grabbed black, was like eh... Had machine gray in my hand just couldnt do it, so there was blue red and yellow, Red just didnt seem right, then I figured a Hammertone would look good I like the copper but brushing it on doesnt have that hammering effect as it sets up fast so when you blend in areas it turns flat, its still textured but Its ment for small things that you can paint the entire face with a few strokes like a tool box or vice. the head looks better but when you apply a second coat it softens the effect you just cant win!

[Mav68erick]

Made my mom a bday present yesterday 3 days late but hey she gets what she gets = P, today I cut the butterfly out. Thinking I just seen that changing color paint in rustoleom, paint the body and stuff that and paint the wings seperate with some sparklies so they imitate being clear or white shimmering etc.

the Dragonfly took about 20mins and the Butterfly 12, clean up was fairly simple as I posted in charlenes thread with the needle scaler. both cut out of 11ga, .112 ish. I edited all the slot lines in autocad for .125 but after the first piece cut out it measured .105, so I cheated edited the kerf down to .020, still tight. Cheated it again told it .005 and it worked out well, now I know next time to just have it cut on the line with no offset and be done with it.

Also just learned by checking my sheetcam in the house that theres actually a Save tool set option, lol I have been always opening my book and going back and refinding the settings for the same thicknesses I keep cutting, I never save the job once its processed out Its the end of it for me. Now that I wanna try to get a little more serious saving toolsets will help out alot between that and the controller and getting a machine torch in the future so I can have a little more piece of mind of squarness and the ability to cut up scrap skeletons it will make life a little easier.

[Brian1]

Ooo! I like the collet holder. Im going to have to cut a similar one for mine. What thickness steel did you use?

[Mav68erick]

14gauge, I added some ears towards the back to bend down for added support was gonna take it to work and bend it. Never did it doesnt really need it. I wish I did a hole test prior to cutting like Ive been starting to do, to figure out how much to add so I get the right ID, figured .030 to 7gauge ( 3/16 ) to get hole diameters just right for bolts to pass through, I had to drill all the end mill holder holes out, didnt like how they wobbled and sat in there crooked but live and learn.

Think im gonna remake it now that I got my kurt vise so I can add a spot to hold the handle a T slot cleaner and maybe a dead blow

If you want ill give you the file to do w/e you want with it you can atleast use it for hole locations or use it for reference. Ill grab it when im in the garage later

[Brian1]

That would be great thanks! I will send you a pm with my email.