4th axis Rotary work.

[wsuwrhr]

Couldnt find the thread I think I started re:

This one has been a long runner for sure, I bid and didn't get the job for a month, then took months to send me the setup parts, then further months for them to get me the actual parts.....and on and on, frankly I gave up and backburnered the whole deal. Well a couple weeks ago they brought the parts so I could get serious.

I have the tooling mostly planned out and I think the rotary will swing it fine after I raise the table a little.

I got me a live center and a sooooupercool little tailstock for this too. Spent a bunchadamnmoney to make this job happen, thinking of the prospects of this job and using the tooling for other jobs.

So IMA post pictures of some of the tooling, I think, since no one said I couldn't.....

The challenge is exciting and I bid the job NEEDING to use the rotary table to make the number I bid, so it damn well better work. If I have to machine them in static setup I am packing the parts generously using $100 bills and shipping them, which I DON'T want to do.

Brian

 

[lbhsbz]

AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD DEN?

 

[wsuwrhr]

We are buildindsomeshitrightnow.

AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD DEN?

 

[lbhsbz]

so...no an den?

Figures.

I'm finally starting on making the billet fender steps for my trailer and will probably have them ready for the boat show!

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[wsuwrhr]

Patience grasshoppppppaaaaa

so...no an den?

Figures.

 

[wsuwrhr]

AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD DEN?

so...no an den?

Figures.

Front Mounting plate.

 

[wsuwrhr]

American aluminum used here peeps. No Chinese shit, not even for tooling.

 

[Icky]

Front Mounting plate.


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Looks like you're playing asteroids

 

[wsuwrhr]

It is xaaactly like that, especially when the decimal gets mooooved.

Brian

Looks like you're playing asteroids
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[lbhsbz]

Front Mounting plate.


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wye ewe need 4 axis for that? Drill press, bandsaw, disc grinder....

 

[wsuwrhr]

....and into the dungeon of Machining and fabrication.....I'm done with this one. Thanks to whomever moved it. Few will ever see it here, not even worth the trouble of typing text or posting pictures. Waves.

 

[wsuwrhr]

wye ewe need 4 axis for that? Drill press, bandsaw, disc grinder....

Patience graaaaasssshoppppa.

Well...before the move anyway.

 

[ductape1000]

Hey, just so you know... Some of us have gone back to just reading new posts. It doesn't matter what section it's in, if you post it shows on the feed. [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[wsuwrhr]

Some of us.....Noted.

Weeeellllp....post views thread views and section views disagrees with you ol DT. Take a gander on the front page....threads from 2016.....

Hey, just so you know... Some of us have gone back to just reading new posts. It doesn't matter what section it's in, if you post it shows on the feed. [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[wsuwrhr]

I gave a vice to libel409 over two years ago, still on the front. Quite the popular page. LOL as Rd would say.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Front mounting fixtures complete. Now onto the rear fixture.

 

[JBS]

Where is the picture [emoji41]


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[wsuwrhr]

Where is the picture [emoji41]

Gave up on pictures once the thread was moved to the dead section.

Sorry.

 

[wsuwrhr]

For the record....I hate this job. What are simple fixtures are taking days to complete.

 

[wsuwrhr]

 

[wsuwrhr]

After what seems like a full week on making shit for this job, one complete remake of the rear plate AND the rotary table riser, and a revision to the front plate, it finally rotates without hitting the table.

One motormount ear on the pass side wouldn't clear even after I measured and remeasured. Off axis and I just plain fucked up. Shit happens. We still kill astronauts with hundreds of engineers crunchin numbers.

I tried to upload a movie of it spinning, but apparently I have to host it on youtube.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Damn thing seems rigid enough to machine without a tailstock support, so just to try, I will attempt it, but the front plate is for a tailstock support.

Brian

 

[Deja_Vu]

Another New post reader here ... keep up the good work .
Now Let’s see some chips..

 

[Wheeler]

....and into the dungeon of Machining and fabrication.....I'm done with this one. Thanks to whomever moved it. Few will ever see it here, not even worth the trouble of typing text or posting pictures. Waves.

Don't punish us for others lack of interest ...please.

 

[Wheeler]

Gave up on pictures once the thread was moved to the dead section.

Sorry.

Sounds like someone needs a hug.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Sounds like someone needs a hug.

Is that lovely woman in your avatar available?

 

[Wheeler]

Is that lovely woman in your avatar available?

I wish I knew. She left me a long time ago.

 

[wsuwrhr]

I wish I knew. She left me a long time ago.

Sorry to hear that sir.

 

[Wheeler]

Sorry to hear that sir.

If it were true there would be nothing to be sorry about as the time spent would have been worth the loss.

 

[wsuwrhr]

If it were true there would be nothing to be sorry about as the time spent would have been worth the loss.

Since I can only go off what you say, I had no reason to assume you couldn't pull cute tail. My apologies.

BTW, I can attest it ain't.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Prolly isn't real prudent, or in my best interest, to publically display to the whole world what I am doooooing to the block, or more importantly, how I do it.

I developed this process around 1998-99 on a single engine family and it has migrated over the years to others in the family, and even morphed to other brands of engines. It is actually one of the first few jobs that got SB Products going. Im quite proud of the process, and its results.

Running this config on a rotary table steps up the game quite a bit, although it came from great sacrifice in labor and money. In the long run it will make the process a lot less painless than the conventional method I have used in the past.

Any local peeps are welcome to come by and check it out.

I have to develop a sexier way to load/unload the block. It isn't real heavy, but getting it onto the locators is like the proverbial football. It worked waaaay better when the rotary was at its first height. After I raised it, it was a wholenotherballgameoffuckedness.

This thread was to show the tooling only.

I have some pictures of that process to show if I have the time to post.

Another New post reader here ... keep up the good work .
Now Let’s see some chips..

 

[lenmann]

Damn, I was waiting for the pics to explain what you were doing. (I love these threads, even when they get kicked to the back)
Lacking pics, can you share what kind of block it is and what, broadly speaking, the magic you are going to perform under cover of secrecy will yield?