i made a similar motor (smaller and two stroke)in trade school in late 80s as a mechanic with well worn lathes and drill press we had to file conrod and crankshaft , great memories watching you
G'day Alan, there was a lot of work in that! your boring head looks better than the piece of crap i have,,,, i noticed you have a lot of Vertex on your table. cheers
I was a bit surprised at how much time it took me to make the connecting rod - it looks like a fairly simple piece. I expect an experienced machinist would have found a better way to make it, but I needed many operations, non-trivial setups, lots of tool changes and repetitions. I heaved a sigh of relief when I finished it without messing up :) I have found Vertex gear to be of pretty good quality. It isn't cheap, but it is well made and generally offers consistent accuracy. That boring head is a joy to use. It can reliably cut to 0.01mm on the diameter - 0.005mm can even be finessed with care (and a bit of luck). It can also perform facing operations. The only issue I have had with Vertex gear has been the excessive runout of the MT3 socket in the rotary table. Thanks for watching Graedon.
Infrared temp guns have emissivity settings that change on shinny objects so that gun may not be accurate for that part Temp chalk would be more accurate
Thanks for pointing that out Paul. Can you recommend or suggest a suitable product ? (Just had a quick look at Tempilstiks and they seem quite expensive ~A$50ea) Cheers.
The new Max Grant nice work , your videos are still one of the clearest on TH-cam.
Kit from up north
Thanks for the kind words Kit, and for your long standing support.
Cheers.
Good to see some more progress over a cup of tea.
Thanks Mike - I was a bit worried that the extra video length would not be appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it.
i made a similar motor (smaller and two stroke)in trade school in late 80s as a mechanic with well worn lathes and drill press we had to file conrod and crankshaft , great memories watching you
Thanks for watching Karl.
Very nice. Looking forward to next video.
Thank you Mats.
😀👍Very nice !
Thank you Kenneth.
G'day Alan, there was a lot of work in that! your boring head looks better than the piece of crap i have,,,, i noticed you have a lot of Vertex on your table. cheers
I was a bit surprised at how much time it took me to make the connecting rod - it looks like a fairly simple piece. I expect an experienced machinist would have found a better way to make it, but I needed many operations, non-trivial setups, lots of tool changes and repetitions. I heaved a sigh of relief when I finished it without messing up :)
I have found Vertex gear to be of pretty good quality. It isn't cheap, but it is well made and generally offers consistent accuracy. That boring head is a joy to use. It can reliably cut to 0.01mm on the diameter - 0.005mm can even be finessed with care (and a bit of luck). It can also perform facing operations. The only issue I have had with Vertex gear has been the excessive runout of the MT3 socket in the rotary table.
Thanks for watching Graedon.
Infrared temp guns have emissivity settings that change on shinny objects so that gun may not be accurate for that part
Temp chalk would be more accurate
Thanks for pointing that out Paul. Can you recommend or suggest a suitable product ? (Just had a quick look at Tempilstiks and they seem quite expensive ~A$50ea)
Cheers.