Tool\machine\work shop showoff thread

[Papa_Smurf]

Show and tell your toys here.

[Papa_Smurf]

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[Papa_Smurf]

mine too

[MoeMag]

This is my school's shop. We like to say it is one of the best machine shops in the state, and it is. We do a lot of work for local companies. Students can use anything... just about for anything too.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/11-14-07_1438.jpg
Haas VF3. It has the 5 axis trunion in it currently.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/08-31-07_1039.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/09-27-07_1449.jpg
One of my many squares of metal.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/08-31-07_1041.jpg
Robotic welder... honestly... havent used it yet but its there.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/08-31-07_1040.jpg
CNC Lathe. My Fav.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/08-31-07_1037.jpg
CNC room

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/08-31-07_1030.jpg
SAE mini Baja!

Cant find a pic of the CNC plasma cutter or the Haas "office mill".
EDIT: got the CNC plasma...
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/PLASMA.jpg

[redic]

what has ty not found this thread yet

[Altec]

what has ty not found this thread yet

I got one picture for him, but IDK if he wants me to post it.


I'll take some pictures of my dads shop in the next few days.

[DevilMan]

alright so all of this hardware and none of you guys wanna set up the code to mill pump rails and bodies??? What's up with that???

DM

[MoeMag]

alright so all of this hardware and none of you guys wanna set up the code to mill pump rails and bodies??? What's up with that???

DM


Sure. Who has a pump kit, rail, and body I can try it out with :coffee:

My SAE club is always looking for fund raisers. If anyone would be willing to let me try... first one is free.

And hey, I might even figure out how to make pump kits.

[tymcneer]

Altec... post away... If it's too embarassing, I'll say something.

I will get pictures of my little shop, when it is worthy of pictures.

For now, a short list will have to suffice...

Old (50's ?) Craftsman lathe a 103 series (think small)

Harbor Freight crappy mill (though it is dialed in to make a fairly striaght and flat cut)

Small bandsaw

Small drill press

Light Machines CNC Lathe

Sherline 8000 4 axis CNC mill

And finally, sold to Altec, and his dad... My Bridgeport Series I CNC mill... project. Will a few million more dollars/hours, it will be complete. All kidding aside, Altec and his dad will likely have it up and runnig before the spring is done. They have the right size shop, and the know how to finish my project.

There are more things in the inventory, but those are pretty much the highlights.

Ty

[warpedmephisto]

Copied from a thread I made at another forum...

We moved back in August and along with that the shop had to get moved as well. But with that move came 9 foot ceilings, concrete floor and much more space. Still in the basement though, which is cool with me. I finally got to snap some pics of the new setup after cleaning up a bit from some projects. Sorry for the blurry pics, camera acts weird under florescent lighting.

Walking in through the main entrance.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2485_1.JPG

A closer look over the main work table in the center of the shop.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2487_1.JPG

Lathe bench and little tooling organizers.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2488_1.JPG

Closer look at the lathe - still a pile of chips under it I've yet to clean up.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2489_1.JPG

Lame and weak bench for my mill. I want to make a new stand and enclosure for the whole thing when I get some free time and gather needed materials. The next one I make I am going to do it up right. This one is wobbly as hell and I have to shim it to get the coolant to drain properly. It worked fine in the old shop where it was wedged against a wall by another workbench, but here its just not cutting it.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2490_1.JPG

Another workbench. This one is alright, though still wobbly. Probably need to rebuild this one day with some proper lumber and legging.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2491_1.JPG

Shelf o' projects.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2492_1.JPG

Storage locker and toolchest.

http://www.warpedairsmithing.com/misc/IMG_2493_1.JPG

So thats where I make my chips! No real big machines here, but still fun nonetheless. Next on the list is probably a bandsaw and a better drill press. I'd like to find an oldie for cheap, but nothing has shown up yet.

I may have a small shop but it doesn't take nearly as long to clean up! :)

[SocialD]

Moemag,
Good to see that another member is on a mini-baja team. I was on our baja team last year. Did you guys go to the SDSM competition or different one? Also, we just received one of those HAAS lathes at work. I haven't looked into programming it yet.

[MoeMag]

Moemag,
Good to see that another member is on a mini-baja team. I was on our baja team last year. Did you guys go to the SDSM competition or different one? Also, we just received one of those HAAS lathes at work. I haven't looked into programming it yet.


Yeah we were there last year. Have some great shots of Mount Rushmore, and Casa Bonita (for south park folks) from the trip there somewhere at school. ASU, we had the 91 and 92 cars... and they are going back this year redesigned like crazy. :banana:

As for the HAAS lathe... I was using it this past weekend to make bushings for the suspension system.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/MoeRoark/02-01-08_1602.jpg
It was easy enough. took about 10-15 min worth of programming in surf cam, another 5, getting things zero'd, then it was full out production for the rest of the day. program run time was about 2.5min and I cranked out 32 of those things in a little under 2 hours. :banana:. By hand it took me about 10 minutes... so big improvement.

[punkncat]

I'd get involved in this thread, but a picture of a set of allen wrenches, my craftsman socket set, hacksaw, file, and sandpaper are a bit outclassed.....:rolleyes:

[SocialD]

Here are some picts of me and my daughter in our (NIU's) baja from last year:
http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/2/3610515162.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7626100)
http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/2/3610515124.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7626099)

She didn't actually drive it.

Besides some wood working tools. I don't have any nice machines. I do have access to a Bridgport and lathe where I work. Then, the engineering building at my school, NIU, has a really nice machine shop also. One of my favorite toys there is our waterjet machine.:wthumpup:

Another friend of mine has the nicest home machine shop. He has a very nice Bridgport and a very nice lathe. I have done some work over there, but I haven't been able to talk him into making me a key yet.:mad:

[tymcneer]

Punkncat... We all started somewhere... For the longest time, my tools consisted of basic handtools, and a very nice file set... I made many a modification using nothing but hand tools...

Ty

[FiXeL]

Yup. The only machine i have is a drill press and some power tools. And not much room for a workshop. At my job i have access to CNC milling centres, and alot of stuff you would find in a machine factory.

[punkncat]

Punkncat... We all started somewhere... For the longest time, my tools consisted of basic handtools, and a very nice file set... I made many a modification using nothing but hand tools...

Ty

I actually tried my hand at doing milling for work a few years back. I worked for a company that at the time had sole contract on the sale and factory repair of Senco nailers and staplers. Our home office had one heck of a tool shop with C&C mill, couple of different drill presses, lathe...I couldn't even begin to tell you the name of it all. We had a TIG welder setup as well.
We would take damaged nailers and mill away the broken parts of the aluminum, build it back up and then mill it back to spec basically as good as a brand new tool.
The mills that we had were all pretty much run by computer, all I had to do was line the piece up in the vise and set co-ordinates according to the make of tool. I learned how to work with steel pretty quickly as far as the welder was concerned, the heat range is so wide that it was an easy medium. Aluminum on the other hand was a bit more of a challenge. I spent an entire day learing the basics, and I mean basic, or putting on a good weld with no pock marks, air, whatever ya call it. Unknown to me and I was not told to wear long sleeves and cover every inch of skin that can possibly be exposed. I came away from that day with a violent purple sunburn, to the point of blisters for a few weeks.
That was the end of my involvement with welding and milling. I went back to the retail and service side right after that.

[Turbo Chicken]

I'd get involved in this thread, but a picture of a set of allen wrenches, my craftsman socket set, hacksaw, file, and sandpaper are a bit outclassed.....:rolleyes:

i was going to be a smart °°° and do it anyways :D

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it would be a pic of my box o junk, tool box, and crap on the kitchen table ...

my little battery powered drill and small off brand rotary tool i got for like 5 bucks and sand paper ... i loaned my files out a while ago and never got them back from my dad

i've seen some pretty cool stuff done with a hand drill, dremmel, vice, and files before.

[tymcneer]

Punkncat... My first welding experience was equally as bad... The nuclear rated welder was nice enough to show me how to use the TIG. What he didn't tell me was to cover my neck. After about 2 hours, I was itching, and by the next morning, I looked like I'd had a front row seat at a nuclear test!

I still want a TIG welder, but I don't have the space, right now ;)

Ty

[PneuMagger]

I'm not allowed to take pictrues in our facility here at work... much less post them on the internet. But if I had to guess without going out to the floor and counting I'd say we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-8 CNC lathes and 7-8 CNC mills (a few of which could machine parts the size of small cars). Mazak and Bridgeport are probably our most used brand. To top it off we have an equally large number number of assorted manual lathes and mills.

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I have a desktop mill at home :banana:

[MoeMag]

Here are some picts of me and my daughter in our (NIU's) baja from last year:
IMGs.

She didn't actually drive it.

Besides some wood working tools. I don't have any nice machines. I do have access to a Bridgport and lathe where I work. Then, the engineering building at my school, NIU, has a really nice machine shop also. One of my favorite toys there is our waterjet machine.:wthumpup:

Another friend of mine has the nicest home machine shop. He has a very nice Bridgport and a very nice lathe. I have done some work over there, but I haven't been able to talk him into making me a key yet.:mad:


Hey, nice coil overs. We are running our fox gas shocks till next year. Tho hey, you wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas of a full bump stop for the rear? I'm not the suspension guy, but I'm making the stuff and what they are thinking of now doesn’t seem right if ya know what I mean.

[etjoyride]

can get a pic of my cousins mig and arc welders, a pipe bender, a bunch o' power tools and some other little stuff (we use it all ot make jeep and car parts mostly), but nothing to interesting. At ym cousins school the have a helluva a lot of nice equipment (plasma cutter, hydraulic bender, 3 welders, etc) that were planning to use in making my new front bumper.

[SocialD]

Tho hey, you wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas of a full bump stop for the rear?

Do you mean something to cushion the shock before it bottoms out?

[MoeMag]

Do you mean something to cushion the shock before it bottoms out?

yeah... well IDK about cushion... but the gas shocks aren't made to handle landing an 700 pound car off a jump. Something to keep the shocks from going into full compression.

[SocialD]

I'm pretty sure that our shocks have some sort of bushing, probably urethane, on the shock rod that prevents it from bottoming out. If you guys want something like that you could make bushings and install them on your shocks. If you are unable to take your shocks apart enough to install them, you could scythe it axially and slip it onto the shaft. You'll then have to use a clamp of some sort to keep it on the shock.