The various goings on in my workshop
I recently decided to get into calisthenics, and one of the items that can be quite useful is a plyo box The typical box is 20x24x30″ giving you three different heights to use, they range in price from £60.00 to £130.00 or more. You can make one of these from a single sheet of 19mm…
A few years ago I built the board for my copy of Steve Wards Division Controller. I decided it was about time I built a case for it. My first attempts were around 3D printing it and I had designed a relatively ergonomic case in Sketchup. I had a few attempts at 3D printing this…
Back in July of 2014 I bought a Boxford morse taper 2 chuck adapter. The Boxford lathe uses a 1 1/2″ 8TPI BSF thread, whereas my Mellor uses 1 1/4″ 9TPI BSF, the crests of which are smaller than the valleys of the Boxford thread. The first step was to machine off the existing threads…
Having sorted the design phase, it was time to start making the pieces of the power drawbar. I started on the mounting plate by cutting a piece of 16mm plate boring a 35mm hole and counter boring to 45mm to a depth of 8mm. Drilled 4 x 6.2mm holes and counter bored to 11mm to…
I decided a fair few years back that I wanted to make use of the Tormach TTS system on my Mini Mill. To that end I purchased a few items from Tormach whilst I was in the USA on holiday back in 2014, including the R8 TTS adapter collet (part #50568). At the time this was $23.75 (£15.00),…
Some time back I purchased a Bosch GTS 10 XC 10″ table saw with Bosch GTA60W folding table from Ebay for the bargain price of £240.00. The table saw alone sells for around £550.00 new and the folding stand for around £185.00, so this was an absolute bargain, and the seller even delivered it to…
This will probably be the last post on the MF-TC build, covering the last few bits that still needed to be done. I rounded off the ends of the handle sides and cut a section of broom handle to length before screwing it in from both ends. Handle in its lowered position. The lengths of…
The drawer fronts were all shaped on the bandsaw. The drawer bases had their holes, for holding the Systainer feet, cut out using a drill for an initial hole and then finished off using a pattern bit in the router, I made a couple of mini templates that I stuck to the first base and…
For the worktop I gave a sheet of moisture resistant MDF a couple of coats of varnish on both sides, to try and prevent warping, plus it means that I don’t need to worry about which way up I install it each time, before cutting out a worktop rectangle. First I drew out a 90…
The T-track was purchased from Rutlands via Amazon (because Rutlands seem to have temporarily dropped this line) at £53.95 for a pack of four 48″ pieces, three lengths are needed for the edge of the worktop, so £40.46 for the three required and one for some other use elsewhere. Next I shaped the ends of the front clamping…