Finally a workshop/storage/mancave

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Here is a frame for the button box, made from tubing.

The outher tube is telescopic in case I need more room somewhere along the way.

Horizontal and vertical both work.
I plan to add a shield around the belt to keep the dust and sparks contained.
Next step is to modify the tensioner arm asI still don’t like how it functions.

 

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Improvements on the tensioner arm.

My assistent is kinda blown away from the (lack of) progress.

 

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Making work rests for the grinder.
Base frame.

The setup is made to be flexible, horizontal and vertical.
this is the start for the work rest that can be tilted to 45 degr.
I used the mill to create the circular slot at an exact angle.

Then made the shaft in the lathe, this will be drilled later.

overal view.

 

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Received a new toy as a gift from my brother.

 

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Small update,
Drilled the rod with 8mm and increased the holes on the outer sides And welded it on the upright.

Welded a tab to the upright and drilled a hole that will be tapped later.
Turned two inserts for the outside of the rod. This will reduce the play on the turning point of the work rest.

With a bolt going through this is not going to bind but still be accurate.

Next making the frame that connects to the actual work rest.

To be continued.

 

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Work rest continued.
To prevent warping of the work rest I used a series of interlocking strips to create multiple attachment points to hold it.
Here are the parts made.

Cleaned the bottom of the work surface and prepared the layout.

To make sure I have a tight fit to the support I made the non locking attachement flexible in its connection to the rest of the frame. It was tacked in one spot while being mounted to the support and then I clamped everything in its final position before finishing the welds.

 

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After mounting it I found a few tweaks had to be made.
I needed to increase the angle, horizontal was just a bit off which was easy to correct.

Getting the 45 degr. Angle took a bit more work. There was some binding from the tab with the locking knob. Plus the back of the support and middle rib were interfering.
After a bit of material removing.

It feels nice and sturdy.

On to the next one.

 

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Next attachement.
some rough cuts.

And a shaft.

Steel into the vinegar bath to remove mill scale.

 

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There is an offset for the wheel in relation to the arm.
Here is an insert to compensate for the offset.

I didn’t take to many pictures of the following, added a solid 40mm block against the offset and widened it with another 10mm to reach the 50mm with of the wheel.
Next the 2 arms were added, aligned and tacked in position.

The wheel fits exactly between the 2 arms.
Now I need to come up with a way of attaching the shaft to the arms.

 

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Things are not going as planned as the wheel requires a longer belt or a smaller wheel.
therefore I continued with the small wheel attachement.
This has a large offset due to the with of the bracket.
First add the offset.

This is slightly wider than needed but this makes it possible to mill the welded piece flat with a paralel surface.

The connecting plate will be screwed to the arm to prevent warping.
Here is the connecting plate being drilled and tapped for the bracket.

It needs a soft wheel added later.
The construction fixed to the arm, I added a bottom wheel to clear the rest of the construction.

 

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Milled the added steel to the correct with and drilled and tapped the bolt holes.
Here are the parts for the attachement, ready for assembly.

and fully assembled.

It still needs an upper wheel.
Next I utilized CAD for the switch box.

And converted it to steel.

 

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How time goes by…..
With work, vacation and work again it has been a while since my last update.
I have been working on a cabinet but pictures of that when finished.

This weekend I participated in a forging workshop.

Done this before a few years ago but this time we went for the full day experience.
Our thatcher is master blacksmith and teaches others to become one.

Here he is helping me to make a sheet metal hammer.

I want one of these hammers, they take away a lot of muscle pain the next few day’s.

I made these hammers during the day.

After the first cleaning and grinding they start to look better.
The jaws and larger hammer in the back are from earlier and we’re hardened.

 

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Hardened and tempered the first hammer.

Next week the others will be done.

 

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Came across this set and couldn’t resist picking it up together with the small router on the left.

Quick and dirty punch and bend To test it.

The dimple part was not done with dimple die’s, need to make them next, but it worked very easy. Much better than the rattle method.

Picked up this to remove the front axle shafts from my DD. Bearing is making noice.
Its a hydraulic hub puller, don’t want to be in a position with everything open and a stuck axle.

 

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Next step with the hammers, hardening.

All three had their heads hardened, next is polishing, tempering and polishing again.

 

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I got a good deal on this portable band saw.

Will be making a table to turn it into a semi permanent vertical band saw in the near future.

 

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I got a good deal on this portable band saw.
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Will be making a table to turn it into a semi permanent vertical band saw in the near future.

Tooling up at? Nice stuff!

 

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Finished 2 hammers with hickory handles.

Blocking hammer

and a body hammer.

 

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I’ve been looking at YT movies to find a decent setup for the vertical band saw.
Looking at the movies I only saw the ones that had no base, mine has one.
When I placed the handle in the clamp It ocured to me that I could use this for a verticale position.
I started looking where to mount an upright that I could use to connect to the existing mounting points for the horizontal position Without it being in the way of the horizontal operation.
I found that I could use the corner behind the original bracket.
Here I’m making a connection point for the upright.

Wrapping around the corner and on top gives me a stride base to build from.

Welded together it looks like this.

The idea is to create an upright like this.

Here is the saw in the horizontal position and in a 45degree angle.

 

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Made the corner bracket.

And added the vertical piece

And welded it on. Here it is bolted to the base.

You can see the three screw holes of the attachement point Just below the red lever.

I plan to use the material clamp as a lower fixation point.