L.T.P'S Entry for the 5th anual build

The trick many times with stainless is once you start a cut don’t stop. Stainless will work harden if you allow it to cool for even seconds leaving something almost like a case hardened effect on the remaining material around the cut.

I will look the set up whe i get home.
Luckly i had a better set.
I was using rp7 as a lube.
Might try and secure a can of that wurth stuff.

If it’s available tap magic is an excellent cutting fluid.

Absolutely. The part I mentioned had to be discarded because of this even though the final dimensions were not impinged on when the tool failed. It became too hard.

ok they were 8 bux for a set ,so I didn’t expect to much

new addition to the shed ,I got my fathers power hacksaw, as he unfortunately cant use it any more.
fairly slow about 20 mins to cut this 50mm square. this piece will hold the two reflectors / leds

try and achieve something tomorrow…

Looks like dad did a few mods to it over the years. I think I have a course blade kicking around if it will work on your machine.

It is a 12” blade steve…

started machining the pocket

60 x 30 x30mm

will need to get a collet set as the chuck isn’t rigid enough. to much protruding
below the spindle

As promised a little more progress

had to visit the lathe to recess the bezel

thought i’d run a couple of grooves across the bezel to break it up a bit

got to love the dro for drilling holes

that’s probably it till next week see how we go

Cool build mate it looks interesting.

I have used Venom cutting fluid when drilling metal its good. Its probably cheaper then the Worth its made by Sutton tools.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/sutton-tools-250ml-cutting-fluid_p6320395

Its good to see you converted with the DRO. A whole new world opens up with it.
Your block looks rather hollow from what one can see from the picture in the vice.

thanks for the link everydaysurvivalgear

I like the price 9.90

yeah steve the dro is good.

if I had a boring bar I would have done individual holes

now to trim it down to size…

I tried lot of different end mills from Banggood on aluminium with my CNC , i have yet to find some that are not crap, wih a european made end mill the cutting load is almost non existant and surface finish excellent the banggood ones are hard on the machine and make burrs everywhere and it’s very easy to brake them since they hardly cut, they are good on wood though for the price, better than the typical router bits with straight cutting edges.

Thanks for your thoughts James.

franticly trying to get things going
machined some groove and drilled some vertical cooling holes

trimmed to length

radiused the corners

yes that is a wood router bit

cut slots for straps

needs a quick deburr an polish and assembely

Looking good - can’t be too far from finished :+1:

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Looking great, nice machining!

well assembly time there is a bit going on in the battery compartment
with charging board electronic and isolation switches and the narsil driver.

wires are soldered directly to batterys…

got some elastic 25mm wide from spotlight measured up swmbo’s head
and here we go

will try to get out tonight for a beam shot
it runs just on 4a to the 2 x xpg2 leds so should be good for 1 and 1/2 hours on high
from the 2 x 3400mah bats

apologies for lack of attention to detail

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