A run of good luck

[Snag]

Now that I've finished the projects I'll post ... seems like
everything I touched the last few days just did what I wanted . I've
been working on a set of Arctic Cat 4X4 vertical twin cylinders , got
the project squared away with the customer* and did the finish bore on
the new cylinder sleeves . Hit my goal of 10-12 thou under finished bore
size on both sides . I like to leave enough meat to be sure the finish
hone leaves the bore nice and smooth . The same guy gave me a
flange/splined stub project that he had to cut apart to get disassembled
. He said it's out of a GM 2500 transfer case . Cleaned things up and
machined a plug for alignment and welded it back together and that also
went well . Next up was a simple task of slotting bolt holes on a fan
pulley to accommodate a larger bolt circle .
And last but by no means least was enlarging the wrist pin holes for
the Arctic Cat job . Bigger bore pistons have a larger wrist pins .
This wraps up all the projects I had for other people . I do have a
piece of 1045 chucked up for a backplate for my "new" 3" three jaw chuck
. I guess I should be crawling under the truck and getting those bed
bolts loose with my new inductive heater ... gotta get the axle out and
to the shop to be re-geared ... but not until it dries out some .
*Patrick used to live across the road from me , a very nice guy .
He's working in an auto repair shop he co-owns with his son , and the
Cat 4X4 is a personal project for him (the flange/spline is for a paying
customer ...) . In exchange for the motor work he's working on the
cylinders for my 1939 Harley . Patrick will also be doing the work on my
truck axle . Another swap , he's getting a pretty complete Sioux
valve/valve seat grinding setup .

[Bob La Londe]

  Now that I've finished the projects I'll post ... seems like
everything I touched the last few days just did what I wanted . I've
been working on a set of Arctic Cat 4X4 vertical twin cylinders , got
the project squared away with the customer* and did the finish bore on
the new cylinder sleeves . Hit my goal of 10-12 thou under finished bore
size on both sides . I like to leave enough meat to be sure the finish
hone leaves the bore nice and smooth . The same guy gave me a
flange/splined stub project that he had to cut apart to get disassembled
. He said it's out of a GM 2500 transfer case . Cleaned things up and
machined a plug for alignment and welded it back together and that also
went well . Next up was a simple task of slotting bolt holes on a  fan
pulley to accommodate a larger bolt circle .
 And last but by no means least was enlarging the wrist pin holes for
the Arctic Cat job . Bigger bore pistons have a larger wrist pins .
  This wraps up all the projects I had for other people . I do have a
piece of 1045 chucked up for a backplate for my "new" 3" three jaw chuck
. I guess I should be crawling under the truck and getting those bed
bolts loose with my new inductive heater  ... gotta get the axle out and
to the shop to be re-geared ... but not until it dries out some .
  *Patrick used to live across the road from me , a very nice guy .
He's working in an auto repair shop he co-owns with his son , and the
Cat 4X4 is a personal project for him (the flange/spline is for a paying
customer ...) . In exchange for the motor work he's working on the
cylinders for my 1939 Harley . Patrick will also be doing the work on my
truck axle . Another swap , he's getting a pretty complete Sioux
valve/valve seat grinding setup .

Good karma goes your way. That 5C shank back plate showed up the other
day. I am very happy with it. Haven't decided what chuck I'll be
putting on it, but its going to get used on the machine that I have
decided will replace the Harbor Freight small lathe. Not the mini
lathe. That was a gift from my wife and what started me down the path
to machining. I intend to put it back in service one day, and just
display it in my front office. Probably when I get around to doing the
same with the Taig CNC mill.

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   Now that I've finished the projects I'll post ... seems like
everything I touched the last few days just did what I wanted . I've
been working on a set of Arctic Cat 4X4 vertical twin cylinders , got
the project squared away with the customer* and did the finish bore on
the new cylinder sleeves . Hit my goal of 10-12 thou under finished
bore size on both sides . I like to leave enough meat to be sure the
finish hone leaves the bore nice and smooth . The same guy gave me a
flange/splined stub project that he had to cut apart to get
disassembled . He said it's out of a GM 2500 transfer case . Cleaned
things up and machined a plug for alignment and welded it back
together and that also went well . Next up was a simple task of
slotting bolt holes on a  fan pulley to accommodate a larger bolt
circle .
  And last but by no means least was enlarging the wrist pin holes for
the Arctic Cat job . Bigger bore pistons have a larger wrist pins .
   This wraps up all the projects I had for other people . I do have a
piece of 1045 chucked up for a backplate for my "new" 3" three jaw
chuck . I guess I should be crawling under the truck and getting those
bed bolts loose with my new inductive heater  ... gotta get the axle
out and to the shop to be re-geared ... but not until it dries out some .
   *Patrick used to live across the road from me , a very nice guy .
He's working in an auto repair shop he co-owns with his son , and the
Cat 4X4 is a personal project for him (the flange/spline is for a
paying customer ...) . In exchange for the motor work he's working on
the cylinders for my 1939 Harley . Patrick will also be doing the work
on my truck axle . Another swap , he's getting a pretty complete Sioux
valve/valve seat grinding setup .

Good karma goes your way.  That 5C shank back plate showed up the other
day.  I am very happy with it.  Haven't decided what chuck I'll be
putting on it, but its going to get used on the machine that I have
decided will replace the Harbor Freight small lathe.  Not the mini
lathe.  That was a gift from my wife and what started me down the path
to machining.  I intend to put it back in service one day, and just
display it in my front office.  Probably when I get around to doing the
same with the Taig CNC mill.

I've already started the 1 1/2 - 8 back plate for the new chuck . I
finished the last "other people's projects" this afternoon so it's time
for one of my "me" projects .