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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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Made an actual real world part with my cheap China tools yesterday
Ok, nothing special. A buddy of mine had a broken plastic bushing in the
top of his seat pedestal on his bass boat. I took a piece of aluminum stock and bored it out to .500 on the cheap mill drill with my cheap chinese (didn't know that when I ordered it as it came from Chicago) 5" vise holding the round stock nice and straight. Then I squared off the face where I did a lousy job of cutting off the stiock to begin with. Then I the a 1/2" bolt in the Harbor Fright mini lathe and made the head nice and round. Then I turned it around and center drilled the other end. This made a nice arbor for the piece of aluminum stock. I turned it to round and to shape between centers. Then back on the mill / drill and bored it out to 3/4 for his seat base. It was a perfect mallet (press) fit into the tube. The seat base dropped right in. What I found particularly satisfying is I just did it. Didn't have to stop and think about a single step. |
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