Wheels galore

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Wheels galore

Post by Busted Bricks » Sat May 19, 2018 8:22 pm

We've been making wheels at work the last couple of days. The coolant pump relay blew earlier in the week and the tech guy didn't have a spare with him so there were a few days downtime on the machine. Those things only happen when you are really, really busy. Anyway, last few hundred will be run tomorrow and then I guess I will have the "pleasure" of manually deburring the rear of the bore.

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Post by 11thHour » Sun May 20, 2018 2:33 am

Wow, that’s a lot of wheels!
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Post by FWLR » Sun May 20, 2018 7:15 am

Would you be doing them on a surface grinder. When I worked in the toolroom has an apprentice, one of my jobs was to make the blanks of the dies that the skilled guys were working on perfectly flat. So I would lay about ten, depending on the size of the blank and because the magnet was that strong it would hold them in place while I ran the grinding wheel across them. Granted it is all computerised now, but I loved doing it. :thumbright:

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Post by Busted Bricks » Sun May 20, 2018 11:43 am

They are made on a CNC lathe with a bar feeder, so once set up it pretty much takes care of itself. You just need to change the inserts once in a while.

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Post by markoteal » Sun May 20, 2018 10:18 pm

Wheely impressive! (sorry!)
Where did I put that uncoupler?

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Post by tom_tom_go » Mon May 21, 2018 7:42 am

markoteal wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 10:18 pm Wheely impressive! (sorry!)
Wheely Mark, you can do better than that?

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Post by Gralyn » Mon May 21, 2018 10:46 am

That picture would make a good Jig Saw Puzzle :D :D :D .
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Re: Wheels galore

Post by FWLR » Tue May 22, 2018 8:58 am

Still the back of the wheels look rough to me.

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