It has been a hard day..., with the heat and all the rest of it...
Coating of the saucers continues. And, the brush
hanger parts are OK, as shown bellow.
This afternoon started with the cutting out plate
springs with my very expensive bandsaw for metal cutting.
Originally purchased for my loom work, but it is
rarely used these days. The bandsaw is shown bellow.
This is a very versatile machine, and in theory
this allows me to cut soft iron, brass, let alone
aluminum alloys of up to something like 10 cm thickness...
Today, I was using it for a mere thickness of 2 mm...
Other related jobs?
Making holes right in the centre of the plates is
paramount to my grooves. My vice cannot properly
grip these 6 mm wide plates, and even if gripped
the pressure of the drill bit will vend it. So,
I need an underlying support, such as a piece of
wood, gripped by the vice.
My milling machine has an accuracy down to one tenth
of a millimeter, so making holes with the 6 mm wide
plates is not that difficult...
Outcome is shown bellow.
Here, I am being sick of myself, again...
The hole positions are all worng! See those
standing and you will see what I am talking about.
It looks as if I will have to live with these
unsatistactory 8 plate springs for my learing works...
Anyway, take a look at what follows.
They are not yet assembled, but the basic idea is there.
In all this, what crossed my mind was that those on
the right may be even better. After all, you do not want to
use huge tongs, really...
Oh, here, by the way, you can see better the hole positions
I was talking about above. Anyway, while working with
all these, another idea came to my mind.
See bellow.
With the schematic A, the red bars are the grooves, and
the blue bars are the slits. My idea was that instead of
having a flat and closed plate like grappers, I may even
use fork like grappers for my tongs. I tried out this idea
and what you see bellow is the outcome.
As you can see one of the pokers broke off! This is
a designing issue, and I will have to think further
about this fiasco...
Additionally, I will have to clear the issues
schematised as B and C. Do I really want a constant
depth of these grooves?
Should I not start with squarely flat pieces,
so that I do not need to worry about the constant
depth issue?
I am in a deep thinking mode...
Coating of the saucers continues. And, the brush
hanger parts are OK, as shown bellow.
This afternoon started with the cutting out plate
springs with my very expensive bandsaw for metal cutting.
Originally purchased for my loom work, but it is
rarely used these days. The bandsaw is shown bellow.
This is a very versatile machine, and in theory
this allows me to cut soft iron, brass, let alone
aluminum alloys of up to something like 10 cm thickness...
Today, I was using it for a mere thickness of 2 mm...
Other related jobs?
Making holes right in the centre of the plates is
paramount to my grooves. My vice cannot properly
grip these 6 mm wide plates, and even if gripped
the pressure of the drill bit will vend it. So,
I need an underlying support, such as a piece of
wood, gripped by the vice.
My milling machine has an accuracy down to one tenth
of a millimeter, so making holes with the 6 mm wide
plates is not that difficult...
Outcome is shown bellow.
Here, I am being sick of myself, again...
The hole positions are all worng! See those
standing and you will see what I am talking about.
It looks as if I will have to live with these
unsatistactory 8 plate springs for my learing works...
Anyway, take a look at what follows.
They are not yet assembled, but the basic idea is there.
In all this, what crossed my mind was that those on
the right may be even better. After all, you do not want to
use huge tongs, really...
Oh, here, by the way, you can see better the hole positions
I was talking about above. Anyway, while working with
all these, another idea came to my mind.
See bellow.
With the schematic A, the red bars are the grooves, and
the blue bars are the slits. My idea was that instead of
having a flat and closed plate like grappers, I may even
use fork like grappers for my tongs. I tried out this idea
and what you see bellow is the outcome.
As you can see one of the pokers broke off! This is
a designing issue, and I will have to think further
about this fiasco...
Additionally, I will have to clear the issues
schematised as B and C. Do I really want a constant
depth of these grooves?
Should I not start with squarely flat pieces,
so that I do not need to worry about the constant
depth issue?
I am in a deep thinking mode...
