Last days, I discovered that old grinding belts are prone to break by the scarf joint. This is an annoying but solvable issue.
The last summer I spent some time to design and make some cabinets to store my material under the worktable. I had no time to report about before. In this post I will show some details.
I made a solid platform from welded steel profiles to allow the Klaiber to be carried by a manual pallet truck. I left some images just for others inspiration 😄.
During the last months I’ve been helping Luke Rickert —of Elisenberg Engineering— to move forward a foundry project. I had a limited experience on foundry business that comes from the rebuilding of a cabinet saw and Luke’s project became a really interesting experience.
All begins when Luke asked me about foundries in Catalonia. He currently lives in southern France and he is really close to catalan speaking lands.
Old mechanical sewing machines are a true gift: robust, nice, effective and useful. Refurbishing them is, however, not so easy. Screws, particulary, are most of them made following old norms or simply following no norms. This is the story of a Singer sewing machine screw.
Because of reasons, I needed to cross drill some shafts with some weird diameters. I own an old imperial Reglus drilling jig but I didn’t have the required bushings. I decided to make some of them. This post shows how drilling bushings where made.
Some time ago I bougth an Isoma centering microscope with ans SK40 adaptor. However I have no SK40 machine at all. During the last days I have been turning a cylindric tail which let me to use the microscope in the lathe as well as in the milling machine.
The part was dimensioned from an original one. It is a M15x0.75 threaded end with two main features:
A 16mm bushing guide that assures concentricity, and A mating ring that assures perpendicularity.
One of the jobs done this summer is a special square intended to facilitate the alignment of the grinder axis. I own a Klaiber WSII tool grinder. This grinder has a head with several degrees of freedom and aligning it to the table is not easy given the poor quality of the head scales. Thus, I decided to build a particular square that fits in the head nose and offers a reference plane to test with the indicator or the protractor, for instance.
