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[Decs0105]

Congrats to both of you (see Klutz that fits in one post )

Cingster please make sure to post lots of pics to show me that I have to get a X2 too

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by Thesaint111

Congrats to both of you (see Klutz that fits in one post )

Cingster please make sure to post lots of pics to show me that I have to get a X2 too

Will do Dennis...got to get the Porsche Spyder body shaped up first though, then I've got to get my head around this very first project:



Do I pick them or what!

[gionc]

My God John: wanna start easy uh?

Andy done something like this "ventilated" drum (isn't that?) for his 911's boxer. I see well it as a PE origami, but you know guys that I'm PE diseased LOL.

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by gionc

My God John: wanna start easy uh?

Andy done something like this "ventilated" drum (isn't that?) for his 911's boxer. I see well it as a PE origami, but you know guys that I'm PE diseased LOL.

G'man, it's worse than that...can you believe that over 40 years ago Porsche decided to make them handed - yes, the left drum fins go the other way, so I'm going to have to make two! Really I need to make all four because the rear drums are indentical to the front apart from not having the five ribs in the centre. I'm going to make two different centres with an interference fit that I can switch with the two outer drum parts - this should give me the combination to cast 4 different drums from!

Easy eh!

[MPWR]

Well that's a fun little shape, isn't it? Looks like you'll need at least a rotary table and a slitting saw. I wouldn't even care to guess accurately how many of those fins there are.

I'll be fascinated to see how you go about it, and/or happy to offer thoughts for how to possibly try it.

[cinqster]

I finally got around to clearing the garage out and made myself some workspace. I'm going to mount the grinder on some wood so that I can clamp it in the benchvise which will free me up some more room. The mill is still awaiting a good clean and tear down!

[mike@af]

...I see some beautiful cars...

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

...I see some beautiful cars...

LOL! Cheers Mike - there's a motorcycle in there for company too!

[mikemechanic]

Originally Posted by cinqster

LOL! Cheers Mike - there's a motorcycle in there for company too!

Pics of the cars and the bike please. This isn't the modeling forum so you can show 1:1 stuff you know. Lathe and mill looks great, did you do a tear down of the lathe?

Mike

[freakray]

Originally Posted by mikemechanic

....did you do a tear down of the lathe?

Mike

Doubt it needed it, it's a Clarke after all

[gionc]

@J: damn for few moments I dreamed about your vintage bike, old Norton or worst an awesome Indian..... than I checked your profile...... ROFL I'm jocking

[cinqster]

G, I can't think why you would think I'm an Indian fan!



Mike, I've some pics of the Spyder completed in my profile - will try to update it at some point as I've got some frightening build shots with some of the body cut into very small pieces when I was 'correcting' the shape of it.

The lathe rebuild was more of a clean-up, regrease and readjust process - I've still not lapped the jibs, though to be honest it doesn't seem to need it. The X2 Mill clean up will be a similar process as a lot of the componants are the same as the lathe. I'll shoot a photo session of the process when I do it.

[its not unusual]

Here it is, my setup (small but ok 4 me)

"workspace"



drill press (Proxxon) + x-y table



my old Emco



end mills etc.



cutting tools



Aleks

http://www.its-not-unusual.de