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A couple of practise holes and something to mark the depth is a great plan.
I have had this set of aluminum scales for some time. I originally wanted to put my 49 in these scales but it did not fit, nor did any of my other project blades, the this Northfield needed some work and it is like a match made in heaven.
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I think all drill presses have a limiting screw. So it will stop and a certain depth. You just have to test and set it. Also, a Forsner bit is not like standard. (I know, we all know this) you use the size needed. Trying to drill out wider with a larger bit doesn't work very well. Nothing to center the bit on. No material to grab but the sides of the hole. If using a vice to hold it would help, but grabbing the sides of the hole and not the center doesn't work too well.
Anytime I'm drilling something that chips easy, I run the bit backward's till I'm past the surface of what I'm drilling.
Say Rez! That Northfield looks sorta familiar?:)
I think it should. I think it was in a box of some good, some bad, and some garbage that you sorted for me. Although there has been a lot of goods that has gone from your shop to mine it could have been a project you sent me.
I thought it may be the one I handed you at Charlies....
Had a pit at the edge I thought was worse until you showed me it wasn't.
Figured that qualified you for ownership....:D
Oh I think you are correct!
I know it came home from Texas with me. It’s looking pretty nice now. I am hoping it makes it through the to be honed pile fairly soon, but I have a stack to shave test.
Okay awesome! Thanks guys for the tips.
I'll look for those specific bits, Rez. Also, perfect for those scales, I havent found a perfect fit for the two that I still have.
Tom, I'll find a way to set the depth, and practice first until perfect.
Outback, I hadn't thought of that, definitely going to run it in reverse first.
So, before your suggestions, I had thought about putting a thin wooden rod in my press. Then attaching sandpaper to the end, turning it on, and wittling/sanding that improvised bit down to the correct size.
This may sound silly, but I often don't have the extra funds for tools and have to make them.
This was going to only need to cut in a very small amount, but I was concerned about whether or not it would create a sharp enough edge.
I'll try to buy those special bits, sandwich the scale while drilling, go slow, and practice first on scraps of same scale material.
Thank you gentlemen!
:chapeau
You could use that method to clean up or oversized a hole but sand paper has a tendency to round. Reaching the bottom may be an issue, the paper may need to extend a hair past the wood and fold over just that teeny tiny amount and be glued very tight to the dowel rod, also keeping the rod short will help it be stiff. My drill press does not turn backwards. I have to spin it by hand.
Hey Guys-I don't know how I thought I had a 2x42" flat-bed belt grinder. That's what I "remember" ordering before, maybe a couple years ago. So I used up the last of my belts flattening bone, and ordered some more, 6 apiece of 36 and 60-grit from Red Label Adhesives on ebay (with the 36 grit only for major hogging duties).
So I go out to my shop a little while ago to put one on, and couldn't get it stretched on over the tensioner even with my son helping. We measured it, yep 42 inches, the right length-NOT! Finally I looked at the spec-plate on the motor: 2"x48." Much cursing ensued, though more just bemused shaking my head at my own stupidity some times. I'm clearly losing it, fellas.
Bottom line: If anybody needs this size belts, PM me and I'll send them to you. I really don't feel like sending them back to the company, trying to get a refund or store credit. Anyway, I've gotten way more out of this forum than I've put into it, so let me know if any of you can use these. I just locked my shop up for the day before I could do any more damage, and ordered the correct size just now.
Stop it! You're starting to do crap that I'd do!:nono:
Being as I live in a very isolated area and need to order in almost everything, I have done this more than once. Sometimes it’s easy to do. You get looking at the correct belts and get distracted by grits or other items and order the wrong size by accident.
It helps me to write things down with a pencil.
It forces me to think about what I am doing and make me remember.
It is awful easy with a computer to make a typo and hit enter..........
Tim.! That sounds like somtimers, its just before Alzheimer's. :rofl2:
When I used to take notes in school many times I never went back to read them but the act of writing them reinforced things.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
When I was in Sub School we were told that instead of making a 'Mental note' and by writing something down it greatly increased your chance of recalling it.
With that said: If I don't write something down sure as s--t I'll forget it. :banghead:
Fixing-up things and reminding yourself of your idea on it in a note is quite efficient.
An idea must be applied!
I forget? :confused:
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Originally Posted by sharptonn
Then I lose the note!
I make notes all the time. The wife and I have note pads all over the house and in all vehicles. We blame it on old age and CRS syndrome.
I'm in the end stage of CRS, I think.Quote:
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Ha Ha, I had to look that up because I couldn't remember what it was.......
Been working on a couple of tools. Got my hammer customized and made a magnetic blade holder.
I took all of the paint off the hammer, cold blued the head, did a traditional gun stock finish with Formby's "tung oil" to 600 grit, rounded the end of the handle, and did some light stippling near the head for grip. The holder was made from some scrap red oak I had laying around with a Cabernet stain, 1/4" neodymium magnets (6 for $5 at Michael's), and a bit of spray poly. I decided to use painters tape to cover the holder so I can change the tape between grits.
I was going to say something else...:confused: Darn it where did I leave that note???;)
Nice work, Jelly. A strip of thin aluminum has served me well on the jigs. Then, I use the blue tape as well.
That hammer seems just right. Would not catch me using the ball-end, Though! ;)
Funny you say that, Tom, I only peen with the ball end, every time I try to use the flat end of my hammer I hit the scales. Gives me an idea though, I think I may try and thin down the flat end of the hammer...
Are you trying to make a flat rivet or a round one?
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
It's a 2 oz, so I need to use a few more taps, but it's easy to control. The ball-end is the only side I've polished. I use the flat side to drive my pins out with a punch, so it gets a few dents.
I use the edge of the flat end. I manipulate the hammer so as to have the edge downward where I am. I can nearly polish the peen (and have!) using the flat side.
Just a mess when I try the ball-side. Tiny hammer, BTW.
Just me....YMMV
I am going to have to try the flat side of my hammer. I have never used it for peening.
I dunno....All I have ever used? You have to move the hammer around.
Has never been an issue with me.
Just make certain you are using the bottom edge.
There are many paths my friend.
Can’t really knock Tom’s efforts, proof is in the pudding. Just saying I skin my cats with the ball side.
Good idea with the tape! thanks for the tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by JellyJar
Due to lack of skills in wood working my first holder is ugly and not straight.
I will probably build a new holder in the next weeks.
Im a flat side guy. When i try the ball end i dont get enough on the pin and hit the scales too much.
I'm not an expert that's for sure, but I've always used the ball.
It's already a challenge for me not to bend the pin, from what I've read here and elsewhere, if you have too much surface area of the pin making contact with the hammer then it's more likely to bend.
The idea being that the very small spot being struck will bend before the rest of the pin.
But if you are able to do it on the flat side, then that's all that matters. It's just strange to me because it goes against what I "thought" I knew.
EDIT: I'm gonna try the flat side. The edge.
Tom, I'm surprised, thought for sure you were with the Roundside!
Flat, somewhat straight, slightly out of square.....That's me!
say! I inherited 3 ingots of Cerrosafe. Does that mean it melts at 190 degrees?
Thinking of casting some wedges.......
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Don't worry about ugly, it's a tool that will see some minor abuse. For something like this I'll take function over appearance. I just stained it because I had it and thought why not? Mine has it's "ugly" spots as well. The 1 1/4" drywall screws on the back would make a fine woodworker cringe. If you start with a piece of wood wide enough for both the vertical and horizontal you can rip the vertical off the board after cross cutting to length. The pieces will line up pretty easy. Not sure I worded that clearly:thinking: An expanding glue like Gorilla will fill gaps in the joint.Quote:
Originally Posted by schwabenchris
My hammer is rounded on the big end too. Just less round...
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interesting how everyone has a slightly different peening/hammering technique. I mostly use the ball end to "speed-tap" around the edges of the pin as I dome it over. Being mostly self-taught and having learned the hard way on a lot of screwed-up pinning jobs on my early rescales, I have found that I get much better results if I put the fresh-cut pin fairly deep into my pin vise, file it flat and smooth, and really get a pretty good mushroom going before putting it through the pin-hole and finishing both sides.
Jerry, it looks like you have taken a jeweler's hammer and rounded the flat side, or did yours come that way?
As I always say, genius makes its own rules, as some of you guys on here prove. Jimi Hendrix is a great example of that truism: he played barre chords with his very long thumb over the top of the fretboard, on a guitar strung upside down and backwards!
I've always called the ball side the peen end, never occurred to me to use the flat. I like using the ball end so I can use my fingers as a sort of funnel and rock the razor around to get the sides/edges. Ugh, I think I need to re-polish my anvil.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I like my tiny hammer.:) Some of us don't need big hammers to do the deed.:D (FYI my attempt at humor without voice or body language... text is so limiting).
You can buy them with either the flat or rounded face:Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chasing-Ham...EAAOSw~9Jccz3q
I have both and prefer the rounded. To each their own. :shrug:
