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I’ve seent it first hand! It is pure artwork to watch Andrew make chips with that machine!
I concur. He was boring on a piece of equipment last time I was down there.
 
Self taught line boring. Machining back ground is related to a community college degree and years of working around not having proper equipment. This whole line boring deal has me wanting lathes and mills something awful!
That is awesome. I have a Precision Machining degree from Danville Community College as well. But I've been in QC now longer than I was a machinist ( 9 years vs 16). However, I do have a 1946 LeBlond Regal in my basement to piddle with, so I still got part of it!!
 
The bore on these allow for .208 clearance between my bar and the finish size. If I had a small bar it would be a bit easier. The sacrifice would be rigidity of the set up. I made the mistake of building to much of the id with weld only once!! Boy that sucked. Lots of die grinding latter I got the bar back in to get to cutting.

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80 plus millimeter shaft.
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That's a sweet setup, might need to drop a machine off with you.
Anyway, wouldn't be hard at all to make a smaller bar--don't know what kind of tooling you use if that square broach is necessary but wouldn't be hard either. I assume there's a keyway down the length of the shaft?

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That's a sweet setup, might need to drop a machine off with you.
Anyway, wouldn't be hard at all to make a smaller bar--don't know what kind of tooling you use if that square broach is necessary but wouldn't be hard either. I assume there's a keyway down the length of the shaft?

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I was thinking the same. Be a lot easier to just order precision ground bar. Thomson Linear has just about any size you can think of:

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@braxton357 @jeepinmatt many folks built all the need equipment for years. Until the recent only a few companies made equipment. All where really high end and very industry specific. Some make unit capable of holding ridiculous tolerances for huge stuff like power generation, steam, and the like.
China has caught up and making stuff for the masses. One or two are actually highly praised.

On the bar.....if I had the equipment probably. But the bar also requires the related set up bushings or (cones), bearings for the "carrier" brackets to allow the bar to turn free, and the appropriate bushes or adapters for the drive to turn it. At that point I'd buy it as a kit. I studied about 10 years on many machines and several publications on building it all from scratch.

My bar actually has a Morse taper on the end to connect another in line. The brand unit I'm running has a catalogue that rivals some Jeep upfitters!
 
@braxton357 @jeepinmatt many folks built all the need equipment for years. Until the recent only a few companies made equipment. All where really high end and very industry specific. Some make unit capable of holding ridiculous tolerances for huge stuff like power generation, steam, and the like.
China has caught up and making stuff for the masses. One or two are actually highly praised.

On the bar.....if I had the equipment probably. But the bar also requires the related set up bushings or (cones), bearings for the "carrier" brackets to allow the bar to turn free, and the appropriate bushes or adapters for the drive to turn it. At that point I'd buy it as a kit. I studied about 10 years on many machines and several publications on building it all from scratch.

My bar actually has a Morse taper on the end to connect another in line. The brand unit I'm running has a catalogue that rivals some Jeep upfitters!
I was referring to the 80mm pin you had to add 30lbs of weld to. Seems simpler to just buy one and drill some holes in it.
 
I was referring to the 80mm pin you had to add 30lbs of weld to. Seems simpler to just buy one and drill some holes in it.
The bore. Not the pin. The pin was made new.

Edit...you made me go reread what I typed. 😂.
 
Makes more sense now haha. Shoulda just bought a new hole too! ;) :laughing:
That's a whole nother can of worms:smokin:. Oh, you meant..... nevermind lol.
 
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Been treating been boxes. Done some dental work after the line boring. Got my anvil stand done.
 

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Been working with a couple fine young fabricators and they have help knock out a lot of stainless work and other things.
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Been a little fun. We have it all fitt d and welded with a nice pump panel with swing valves. Gonna be a pretty tricked out truck for a brush unit.
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This popped up in my memories gadget on my phone.
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Any guesses to it's purpose?
 
Looks like it would be to raise something up.
Nope!
Edit: here's a hint for all. The bolt pattern in the sprocket got hardened dowel pins pressed in after this picture.
 
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Ok, sooooo. It was late, the project sucked and we needed a solution.
Imagine a great big heated press. Like 40 feet long 10 feet wide. Has numerous cylinders that press and a heated platen with a bizzilion degree oil in it. And the press is north of twenty feet tall.
In the belly of this thing is a leaking gland and you can not get the cylinder out without wrecking half the frame and shutting down for extended periods. Cylinders measuring like 15 or so about 18 inches in diameter and 12 feet tall.

The sprocket had a window to remove and slip around the cylinder. Replace the window and with some sketchy spacers to hold it into the receiving dowel pins use a chain com-a-long (sp?) to apply rotational force.

Edit: The cylinder spewing oil had previously been monkeyed with. The company hired me to do several odd items and this came up. I felt like if the threaded insert was loose enough for this to work they had bigger issues. Turns out this was half the problem. They wanted a bandaid and I obliged by helping slap one on.
 
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