The Home Machinist!

Just bought a Mitutoyo 293-815, 0-1" digital outside micrometer for 30 bucks of Craigs List. It ain't pretty, but I prefer function over form anyway. Not that it isn't nice to have pretty tools. I now can measure tolerances that my machine can not reliably make. :) This one is dust and water pr...

Thanks for all the encouragement, but before you follow me over the cliff. I think I may have just gotten lucky. Here is a sketch of the mechanism that is in mine. P1010094.JPG It is a rack and pinion type set up. I don't know if my terminology is right or not. I would think that a setup that has a ...

Harold the one I have is a "SPOT-ON 639T Made in England" I have not been able to find any info on this indicator. I have done a Google search, and nothing! So I have no idea of its worth. Some pieces are missing from the set, most notably the clamp. If anyone knows anything about this ind...

Another project completed! At he gears show I had bought a "Spot-On" dti that had .0005 graduations. I was happy with my purchase, till I got it home, and discovered that it would stick if only moved a couple thousandths from 0, and would not return to 0. Tonight I did a little searching o...

Looks like it will be a couple of weeks before I get to start the bike build. Today while chasing all the holes in the cases with a tap, I discover to small cracks, on the boss that the generator mounts to. The cases are over at a friends place to get welded and milled. I will take pictures as the b...

I never had to serve our GREAT country, (to young then and now to old) but I do appreciate all of you that did.
It has allowed me to do and say what ever I wanted to all my life.

Thanks
Pat

Cellar door is done. Both the weights are hung, and the light comes on when the door is opened. I did not get a picture of the light switch, but it is a pretty simple set up. The light is a pull string porcelain type fixture. I hung a sheave on the ceiling for the string to be able to make a 90 degr...

Harold I do enjoy it well enough that is for sure.
Even if I sell the one bike I will still have two. A 74 sportster and a 2000 Road King, the later you have seen.

Waiting on weight to set, second weight will have to wait for the first weight to set, as I only made one, weight, form, to save on materials. Here are the pics. The form. The original was a 12"x12" and weighed 40 lbs, I am making two 25lbs weights this time, and figure an 8"x12"...

The cellar door is mostly complete. I still need to make the weights and maybe an automatic light switch. Here are some pictures of where I am with it now. PA300076.JPG PA300077.JPG PA300078.JPG In the last picture you can see the weight I was using on the original setup, which use to be similar to ...

More on the door!

Frame primed. Sheeting primed. Frame painted, mostly. Hole that it all goes over. Tomorrow.
Paint other side of frame.
Paint Sheeting.
Assemble everthing.
We'll see how it goes.

Got some more work done on the counter weighted cellar door I am building. I took some quick pics before the sun went down this evening. I have to, add gussets to inside corners, drill the frame for the screws that will hold the wood to the frame, cut the 1/4 plywood that will make it water proof, m...