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Quigs, how did you cut the glass down? I gotta know as this is a great idea. I want to get a few of those Lancias and do the same thing. Looks great!
I put a wrap of elect. tape around the glass and snugged it in the chuck of the lathe and ran the face of the dremel 1 1/2" diamond disc against the edge (so I didn't really cut it, I ground it down). I ran the lathe at about 500 rpm and the dremal at about 10K. When you do it, keep a pot of water and a sponge handy (you don't want to be breathing glass dust)...once you get into a rhythm it goes pretty quick. I didn't bother heat smoothing the edge as it's fairly smooth (plus I'm not sure my MAP gas set will go hot enough)
On that note let me say that next week I have a weeks vacation and I'm spending it in the workshop refurbishing the place and making new workbenches because it's a mess. Planning to make one full wall with workstations for the mill, lathe, sanders and drill press. Then I'm relocation my table saw and extending the outfeed table to a workbench and router station. And I have to find a good spot for the bandsaw.
Fun for all the family
And obviously I'll sneak in a couple new mods with all that fine wood stash I have. As the subject was brought up just last week and to please my buddy Turbo I'll finish the next few mods with Danish Oil instead of lacquer.
Just curious Capt, you have a pretty elaborate setup there, you do much more then e-cig mods, don't you?
For your first lathe project I would say it's a dayum good job, it beats my first attempt for sure
Just waiting now to see what CC is comin' up with because he's being mighty quiet recently and he has all those new toys
For your first lathe project I would say it's a dayum good job, it beats my first attempt for sure
Just waiting now to see what CC is comin' up with because he's being mighty quiet recently and he has all those new toys
I didn't mention that it took me the better part of 3 hours to make that...mind you, with a learning curve that pretty much stuck to the Y axis, I'll take the win
CC has been quiet...like .... Van .... in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang quiet....
Add: That's hillarious, ECF censored out Mr. Van .... first name...what a joke, like what are we ECF, 4 yrs old?...relax
Add: Add:...and yet they didn't censor "...."
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You should say Richard van .... (surprised the "...." made through the ECF censorship
)Been really busy with work and family lately. I haven't really had much shop time, unfortunately... Hoping things smooth out in the next couple weeks...
Can't wait to see what you come up with in your off time, Capt.
Can't wait to see what you come up with in your off time, Capt.
an other thing you could try is using valve grinding compound from an auto supply store . once made a "hole saw" from a 1 " brass tube with a couple of notches filed in it . it cut a hole in a glass carboy about 3/4 thick ! for an upside down fermentation tank for beer brewing.
takes a wile but a very clean polished hole.
quigs did you see my vid on the switches ? a while back in this thread what do you think of that idea ?
have fun
I've got a tube of die grinding compound, while it works great and has a million and one uses, it's messy (and it would've taken me a month of Sundays to take 4mm off that tank). The Dremal diamond disc is your friend
Side note...back in the day, getting diamond cutters was an expensive undertaking...if you're old like me, you'll notice that these days diamond covered cutting tools are everywhere...I had to google what was up with that. Apparently there's a relatively new method of making industrial diamonds called Detonation, literally setting off an explosion in pile of carbon dust (inside a sealed, obviously very tough container
), in a split second, the heat and pressure of the blast turns some of the dust into what are called nano-diamonds...perfect for abrasion grit. Way faster than growing, then grinding them up...and the price has come way down. Kid's these days don't know how good they got it ...pop down to Lowes and pick up a Dremal diamond wheel for $25, pfft, get 2...that would've been big bucks in the 80's I saw your switch Rolf...pretty much a high amp version of that reed switch I mentioned, though I wonder why you're doing that?...why not just hard wire the trigger to "always on" so as soon as you power up the OKR it fires...unless it's a German thing, where unless there's 1500 parts engineered to exact precision that must work in perfectly controlled synchronicity it's simply not worth making
The Swiss have a saying...don't buy a German can opener, it comes with a 67 page manual.
I've got a tube of die grinding compound, while it works great and has a million and one uses, it's messy (and it would've taken me a month of Sundays to take 4mm off that tank). The Dremal diamond disc is your friend
Side note...back in the day, getting diamond cutters was an expensive undertaking...if you're old like me, you'll notice that these days diamond covered cutting tools are everywhere...I had to google what was up with that. Apparently there's a relatively new method of making industrial diamonds called Detonation, literally setting off an explosion in pile of carbon dust (inside a sealed, obviously very tough container
I saw your switch Rolf...pretty much a high amp version of that reed switch I mentioned, though I wonder why you're doing that?...why not just hard wire the trigger to "always on" so as soon as you power up the OKR it fires...unless it's a German thing, where unless there's 1500 parts engineered to exact precision that must work in perfectly controlled synchronicity it's simply not worth making
The Swiss have a saying...don't buy a German can opener, it comes with a 67 page manual.
thanks the comeback quigs !
love the german can opener !!!
you got a point there..,.my way of thinking was that the first contact would only connect the power to the board with no sparking since the current is extremely low. then the fire botton will fire with the pos contact already made.the contacts should last for ever .
to wire the zener to pin 1 solid ....that sounds a good way to go ! the contact points of 10 amps should last any who .
still would use the relay contacts even not needed for current reqired but simple to build and very small switch .
back to the drawing board...the kraut
ps using a diamond wheel for cutting in a jig I build and then use the valve compound to polish
I'm new to this stuff but if your main goal is making mods or projects in the same scale, a mill can do it all....square, plane, mill, drill, and drum sand. If your projects are going to be bigger, a router setup would probably be better. I've only had my mill a little while but I already wish I had bought one of these years ago.
Thanks RN! I really am torn. Looked a mills vs router, dp, other options. My radial arm can do quite a bit with wood for me... One day I'll hopefully have all of them. Just a question of what will give me the most added capabilities next.
Decisions, decisions. Which mill did you get?
All is quiet on the thread so I presume you're all building frantically
I started on my second this weekend
I'm working with ebony again, and spalted maple (I think). The spalted wood looks cool but damn is it a pain in the .... to work with. I had a couple of panels soaked with a couple of layers of ca then sanded down real nice, both sides because I couldn't decide which side I wanted facing out. Then I milled for final thickness but got deeper than the ca soaked in so it ripped that poor balsa like wood to shreds. I managed to salvage it but it took more work than it's worth I think.
This ones going to have a couple a metal accents too
By the way, while I was pouring ca on the spalted wood, in some areas (not all), I saw what looked to be small trails of smoke. Is this some kind of reaction with the fungi in the wood? Is it toxic?
I'm new to, and if your goal is to build a first working mod, you can do it using whatever tools you have on hand. Sandpaper and drill is pretty much all you need if you're willing to apply a lot of elbow grease. Doing the first one with whatever you already have available will give you a good feel for what you need in priority in order to make the second one better etc.. my 2 cts
I did the quigs drop on my lancia last night and wow. That really improved the vape noticeably. Not to mention it made the thing much more pocket friendly[emoji1]
I got the Grizzly G0463 which seeing in person and using for a little while, I think I'd have been just as happy with the LSM. I wasn't sure what all projects I'll be doing so I splurged for a little bigger one. But that LSM package is a nice deal and LSM has good clean product (I have their lathe) relative to competition.
Will you be fabricating any metal parts? If I had no plans of working with metal, I would have opted for a router setup with an x/y table.
Yes, I plan on making small metal pieces, but not extensively and not anything large; mod doors from Cu or brass, top/bottom plate for a mod, that size. I could probably get away without a mill, but it sure seems a better way for done of the tasks I have in mind.
I've noticed that before using Q tips doing a CA finish. If the cotton of the Q tips has a high humidity level it'll smoke (CA cures with moisture).
Is the smoke toxic? probably[emoji6]
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no doubt, I've seen work done with a dremmel that at first glance you'd of thought it was CNC. Straight up amazing work. With limited tooling, time and patience is really all you need to create some nice work.
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