I produced something!!!!

[btr-cj]

Mini Lathe $300
Tooling for lathe $300
Raw materials $0.15

Producing a $15 part with the above

PRICELESS!!!

Well I produced my first part with my lathe. I am so proud.

Anyone want to guess what it is?

C.J.

[zuke]

A thing-a-ma-bob-do-hickey-thingy?

[btr-cj]

Very close!!!

Had to reduce the size of the images to post.
They are there now.

C.J.

[zuke]

Look's a lot like a lathe project I did back in trade school.

[KCSO]

Looks like an air chuck nipple to me.

[btr-cj]

KCSO.

Correct....... with added features.

[waksupi]

With all the out-sourcing in this country, I am proud to see American ingenuity is still producing usable widgets. Widgets have always been very marketable!

[David R]

Yup looks like you made a priceless nipple

David

[floodgate]

btr-cj:

Good start; now you're hooked! A year from now you'll have 3 times the lathe cost in tooling.

floodgate

[454PB]

It obviously fits a an air line quick connect. I'm not sure what you say it is, but it will work as a snubber for a captive pressure tank on a well system.

[Buckshot]

.................Yippee! God it feels SO good, doesn't it ?

Mini Lathe $300
Tooling for lathe $300
Raw materials $0.15

Producing a $15 part with the above

PRICELESS!!!

................Yeah well................ As Floodgate said, that $300 tooling figure will double and then triple. No flies on those little 7" lathes so far as what they'll accomplish within their envelope. Starmetal has made some neat stuff on his so far too.



The above is the first real 'Thing' I ever made on my lathe, and it was for someone else! A cocking knob for a co-worker's 22 semi-auto rifle. Took me about 8 hours and a whole bunch of thinking time to get it done. I was scared of it At autoshop labor prices it should have cost him about $0.10 in parts and $600 labor!

................Buckshot

[btr-cj]

It is an air chuck nipple on one end with 1/8 pipe threads on the other with a built in propane jet. I have air chuck quick connections on all my propane burners and stoves.

I could not find a jet that would accept an air chuck so I MADE ONE!!!!!

This one replaces the air chuck nipple, the jet, a ¼ to 1/8 pipe reducer and a 1/8” nipple. All in one nice little package. Ohhhhh and by the way, did I mention.... I MADE IT!!!

By the way, it is casting related because I use one of the burners to smelt my wheel weights.

Thanks,

C.J.

[shooter575]

I would of silver soldered a brass or steel plug then chucked it up to drill orcfice.That is the nice about being the creative type.There is allways another way to skin the cat
Welcome to the word of "making chips" Feels good don't it!

[Blackthorne45]

Buckshot

That looks like the bolt in my Dads 87A Springfield.

[KCSO]

I have a lathe amd milling machine now and I look back on some of the stuff I have had to make with nothing and i am soooo thankful. I can remember helping my grandgather TURN a firing pin for a shot gun with a file on a post drill. I cranked the handle while he filed on the rotating nail, and then we case hardened it in a pot forge. I made 4 of them this weekend in about 20 minutes and blessed my tools and tooling every minute. Somtimes I don't know if I am a gunsmith with a tool hobby or a tool guy with a few guns. And now when I get stuck I can type a few words into a magic machine and get help from people all over the world. Sometimes I sit back and look at my life and I am awestruck.
Thank You God

[carpetman]

btr-cj---What you produced may easily be what they use to inflate tennis balls. I don't know?? Basketballs,footballs,volleyballs etc have a hole you insert needle to inflate them. Tennis balls have no such device,but I think they are pressurized. If not pressurized I don't think they would bounce. How do they do it? Do they perhaps have some chemical reaction that gets sealed inside and it pressures them? Doubt it. They might use some device like what you made? I don't know how they would do that. But seeing as I don't have a clue as to how it's done---maybe they do? Now with golf balls,baseballs,hockey pucks and curling stones you don't inflate them,so your device would be useless on these things. Billiard balls would fall into that catagory as well. Does anybody know how tennis balls get inflated? Perhaps Wills can post a link.

[shooter575]

Hey carpetman,Wills must be busy.I did the hard work for ya http://www.nothingbuttennis.com/html/tballs.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopi...is/balls.shtml

http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/secti.../908135162.htm

http://www.garrisonsportsgroup.com/t...roducts/83.htm

http://www.smalltimes.com/document_d...cument_id=2997

Wow,you can use Pressureless balls,High Pressure,NANOCOMPOSITES and even Titanium balls.Who would of thunk it?
Man you got to be carefull what you ask fore on this board

[carpetman]

shooter575---The links you provided were an interesting read. They did not fully answer the question---how are tennis balls inflated? Not knowing this,we still dont know if btr-cj's device would be the answer for it????? The links did confirm some are inflated. But how might be a deep dark trade secret. Not really being a tennis fan,I really never pondered things but had some curiosity. For example footballs and basketballs pressure can be measured and the rules call for a certain pressure. With tennis balls the link said they must bounce within so many inches when dropped from 100. Guess the next tennis question will be do they really use cat guts for strings and how do they get them? I've heard of Wilson and a couple other brands---wonder if they have one called Roadkill?

[Scrounger]

shooter575---The links you provided were an interesting read. They did not fully answer the question---how are tennis balls inflated? Not knowing this,we still dont know if btr-cj's device would be the answer for it????? The links did confirm some are inflated. But how might be a deep dark trade secret. Not really being a tennis fan,I really never pondered things but had some curiosity. For example footballs and basketballs pressure can be measured and the rules call for a certain pressure. With tennis balls the link said they must bounce within so many inches when dropped from 100. Guess the next tennis question will be do they really use cat guts for strings and how do they get them? I've heard of Wilson and a couple other brands---wonder if they have one called Roadkill?

You going to try to get the contract?

[btr-cj]

KCSO.

I look forward to getting to the level of you, Buckshot and others on this list who can crank out stuff in minutes. That item took me about 4 hours in the course of 3 days to create. I am sure my next one will only take 3hr 45 minutes. The finish is nothing to brag about but it is functional. I have viewed some of the stuff that Buckshot and others have posted and dreamed of the time when I could accomplish the same.

These machines not only have started a new hobby but have opened up limitless possibilities in my other hobbies. The project list is growing by the day.

I agree with everyone who has commented on the satisfaction you get by making something from raw materials. It definitely gives one a pleasant since of accomplishment.

I used to subscribe to several magazines in different areas of interest for me. Now the only one I get is the American Riflemen. It comes with the membership or I would not get it. Like so many these days I depend on the web for information. It is more easily obtained and wide reaching as you stated.

We definitely live in exiting times.

Of course I bet people at the turn of the century (20th not the 21st) was saying the same thing. (Electric lights, automobiles, smokeless powder……)

C.J.