Recent content by dennisa49

All good, the gear has a home. Thanks Dennis

Good day machinists, I have some steel and unused carbide tipped tooling to give away. 50mm machining bright bar about 900mm, 30mm bright bar 770mm, 30mm black bar 490mm, 25mm black bar 1040mm. Tipped tooling 12 x 12 - 20 pieces. Located in the Qld. Gold Coast area, pick up only. As per the...

Good day, This is one of my shutdown projects. The king is 93mm high, the pawns 45mm. All machined out 6061 25mm round stock. Very satisfying project. I made the board with recesses to allow me to leave the game set up when I put the board away. Stay safe and well, regards Dennis

Good day, I use replaceable 11mm inserts with a H&F AL51g machine. Depending on the diameter of the work piece I run at 350 or 500 rpm. Very infrequently a higher RPM may be required. With a light cut rate on the last run the finish is mirror smooth. I am unable to use flood cooling or lube in...

Hello MF, thank you, There is something I was not aware of. Add to that a lower pitch, wider set, had to fail. I am seriously cross with myself, after almost 55 years of trade work I forgot the basics. Thus the new bump, $11 poorer, but a couple of hundred wiser. Good fortune for the next...

Thank you for the suggestions, I have a feeling the problem is in the blade or it’s settings. It seems odd that the new blade has developed the same bump. I used the H&F manual’s tension setting method. I will start from scratch, check the blade condition, alaignment and the blade tension. It...

Good day, I have a question relating to my small bandsaw. H & F BS-5V, small machine maximum capacity 125mm round stock. Good little machine, extremely reliable. I was cutting 50mm free machining steel. Nothing difficult. This morning the blade developed a light “knock”, once per blade...

Congratulations Edi, great build, beautiful machining. Dennis

Hello, the 5M belts are expensive in Australia ($34.00) from H&F, same from bearing suppliers. A belt upgrade would be good, there is not a lot of room in the cabinet to make the change to new section pulleys. Is there a higher quality or better material belt available. I keep a spare belt on...

Good day and thanks, I have (I believe) overcome this problem. The pulley groups are not in perfect alignment. This has not presented as a problem until now. It seems also possible that using the two high speeds applies a fairly high torque loading to the screw that locks the motor shaft...

Hello, My H&F 9 x 20 lathe is spitting the v-belt from the pulley group on the motor driven shaft. This machine is also sold by Harbour Freight, Grizzly and Jet. There seems to be a runout of .5mm or so on the bottom or A shaft pulley which will be causing the problem. I would like to know if...

Good day Andrew, it looks like a very elegant solution. The weight of an SX2P is around 72kgs. I believe the head to be about 25 - 30% of the total. The well known hardware chain sells gas cylinder operated struts. They have a couple that fit the bill nicely. I will proceed with care I...

Thanks Andrew, I am ok with the struts. The brackets that support the head interested me. I had in mind to bolt the bracket to the left side of the head, looking at the machine. The idea of a cylinder on both sides is great, no unequal load. I reckon the load is about 20 kilos, travel of 250mm...

Hello, as Peter said, nice work. I am curious about the cylinder attachment points and the plates that are used as mounts. Could you tell me how they are fixed to the milling head please? I have always felt that the single cylinder would be an asymmetric force. Your mod with two cylinders over...

Good day again, Here is a picture of a Pratt and Whitney twin row Wasp (2X 7) crank. I hope this also helps. Regards, Dennis Thanks to Pratt and Whitney photo site.