It's funny because I read other people's blogs and think to myself, man I wish I updated my blog this often! Well there's no excuse, and I'm going to attempt to keep it up to date. I do a lot of really cool work here in the shop that I'd love to share.
Over time I'll post more details, but I'll give you the quickie cliffnotes of life around here since my last post in october. Our short throw shifters have been flying off the shelves since I introduced them last August, it's great! There have been a few small mechanical failures in the design which I have since fixed, no biggie. I stopped using stainless steel for the main shaft because it was extremely expensive and it actually still rusted a bit, so I've started using steel and I picked up a nickel plating kit which does a great job of plating all the parts I need. And the lower pin that goes through the stock shifter fork of the transmission, before I was using stainless steel for that too, but since SS is a bit of a soft material, the needle bearing was actually denting it for some people. Now I'm making them out of steel and hardening them by heating it cherry hot with my oxy/acetylene torch then dunking it in water, then nickel plating it for corrosion resistance. Now they're MUCH tougher!
In march '09 I converted my lathe to CNC, which has been the best tooling decision yet! I'll go more indepth on this conversion at a later date, but basically it's insanely awesome. The accuracy of my work has gone up and repeatability has gone through the roof. I can make the exact same part 100 times over, which really comes in handy when I'm doing big batches. Next up is to convert my milling machine, I might get to do that in July. Here is basically the biblical website for convrting the Grizzly X2 milling machine that I have. http://hossmachine.info/
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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