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MidEngineering
United Kingdom
Приєднався 16 сер 2019
Making things, repairing things. Mostly metalwork - the varied work that goes on in a small engineering workshop. Machining (turning, milling, etc.), Fabrication (cutting, bending, welding, etc.), Finishing (polishing, grinding, etc.). Looking at the processes & the tools & equipment.
Machining out wrecked bearings - Hard turning.
"Can you fit new bearings in these rollers? You'll need to take the remains of the old ones out first."
"I don't know how we can do that. Looks a bit tricky..."
"Can't you just put them in a lathe & turn them out?"
"But they're ball races - really hard!"
"Oh!...See what you can do?"
"Well, O.K..."
Lathe used is a Colchester Triumph 2000 with a Burnerd Multisize collet chuck. "Standard" CCMT Tungsten Carbide inserts used in the boring bar.
"I don't know how we can do that. Looks a bit tricky..."
"Can't you just put them in a lathe & turn them out?"
"But they're ball races - really hard!"
"Oh!...See what you can do?"
"Well, O.K..."
Lathe used is a Colchester Triumph 2000 with a Burnerd Multisize collet chuck. "Standard" CCMT Tungsten Carbide inserts used in the boring bar.
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Machining/facing a Ducati Cylinder Head in a lathe, using a fixture plate in a 4 jaw chuck.
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This Ducati cylinder head needed re-machining on the recessed face that sits on the cylinder barrel, as a previous repair had left a slight dip in this surface. Although this could be done with a milling machine, it seemed that turning on a lathe would be a better option. In either case, holding the cylinder head on the machine would not be straightforward & I needed to make a fixture plate to ...
Repairing a Triumph Tiger Cub Frame - part 2. Welding, grinding, filing, cutting, drilling....
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Needed to build up the remains of the centre stand lugs & then grind & file them flat & level so that there was somewhere to weld on some new plates with holes pre-drilled for the centre stand pivot screws. Then those plates could be cut, ground & filed to shape...
Repairing a Triumph Tiger Cub Frame - restoring the centre stand pivot lugs. Part 1 - preliminaries.
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This Triumph Tiger cub frame had not only had the centre stand iremoved (which was possibly a common thing to do if the bike was going to be used for trials or trail riding) but had also had the pivot lugs on the frame cut off, and in a pretty crude fashion to boot! The repair needed a fair bit of welding plus cutting, milling, turning, drilling, grinding & filing!
Finishing the Digger Boss. More core drilling with annular cutters, internal parting, boring to size
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Part 2 of making a replacement boss for a digger/excavator, using annular cutters (or core drills), an internal parting off tool in a shop made boring bar, & some standard boring operations. The smaller core drill (43mm dia. x 53mm max. depth of cut) is an HSS cutter with 11 teeth & made by BDS. The larger core drill (65mm dia. x 30mm max depth of cut) is Tungsten Carbide tipped with 9 teeth & ...
Turning a Digger Boss, using annular cutters (or core drills) in the lathe.
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I needed to make an 80mm diameter hole in a 4 3/4" diameter piece of mild steel which was going to be replacing a worn out pivot boss in an excavator. The largest twist drill I have is only 1 inch dia. & using that would have left a lot of metal to be removed by boring so I thought a better option would be to use some core drills/annular cutters to make a much larger hole before needing to use ...
Fun with Fly Presses 6. Swaging Tubes - making larger ends for some intake tubes.
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I'd made the tools used in this video several years ago to make some Aluminium intake tubes for a Ford Cosworth. Simple taper turned Steel pieces - the internal taper to shrink the end of a 2 1/2" diameter tube & the external one to expand a 2" diameter tube. I only needed to close down some 2 1/2" tubes for the job shown here but thought I might as well show both tools being used.
Welding Problems - Cracks & Distortion! A how not to do it video...
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A few things to take from this video. First, tack EVERYTHING in place before doing any "proper" welds. On this piece I should have tacked the centre tube & all the ribs in position. Second, trying to run a fused weld between 2 pieces of 5mm thick mild steel will have hardly any penetration... Third, MIG welding mild steel is much quicker & puts less heat into the job than TIG. Fourth, don't ove...
Skimming Studebaker Brake Drums. Setting up & chatter issues. Plus a TIG welded hub repair.
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Sometimes basically simple jobs are not as straightforward as you'd hope! Getting parts held in the right place can be fiddly & the actual machining doesn't always go smoothly. Chatter, caused by vibration in the tool and/or the work can be a major bugbear... Lathe used here is our Colchester Triumph 2000 with the work held in a 12" 4-jaw chuck. Turning tools used on the Cast Iron drum were a 1...
Repairing a damaged Stainless Steel Ice cream cone.
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We do get some odd things brought in to be fixed/repaired. I've worked on parts for ice cream making machines before - Rossi's up the road from us had some pretty old equipment & I think the part in this video was brought in by their successors. So another old part, probably long out of production - maybe not, maybe just hard to get hold of - likely made in Italy originally. How on earth it got...
Center Line Wheels - Shiny!
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These classic Center Line wheels were brought in to us to be polished & I thought it was interesting to look at how they were made. Rather different from modern alloy wheels. Center Line are still in business but their wheels are not made in quite the same way now. Still not cast, but 2 pieces riveted together rather than 3.
When a friend drops by to see what I'm doing...(still drilling out broken bolts, plus Helicoiling).
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Part 2 of drilling out broken bolts in an exhaust manifold. More of the problems that can occur with these jobs. Ended up putting Helicoils in 2 of the holes & with hindsight, it would have been quicker to have drilled out & Helicoiled all 4 holes rather than trying to preserve the original threads...
Drilling out broken bolts in an exhaust manifold. Trials & tribulations!
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It's always a bit of a challenge to remove broken screws/studs/bolts And when they are properly rusted in you know they will have to be drilled out. Often not straightforward & on this job it would have been quicker if I'd gone straight to drilling the bolts out completely & tapped the holes to take Helicoils... Job done on our old Beaver VPRP turret mill.
Making & using a guide bush for a broach.
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Someone wanted us to drill out & thread the bore of a motorcycle alternator rotor, & then broach a "keyway" slot in it. They supplied the broach but didn't realise that a guide bush was needed... Machinery used in this video - Steinel SH4 horizontal milling machine, Marlco arbor press.
Repairing a Camshaft Bearing Cap.
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A broken bolt to remove & a broken casting to weld up. Getting the remains of the bolt out was pretty routine. Made easier by being a through hole so it could be drilled from the reverse side. Hoped that the drill might bite in, grip the bolt & screw it out the front side & that's exactly what happened. The broken part of the Aluminium casting needed to be AC TIG welded.
Sharpening a Milling Cutter on a surface grinder.
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Sharpening a Milling Cutter on a surface grinder.
A bit of turning & TIG welding to restore a clutch release bearing guide spigot.
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A bit of turning & TIG welding to restore a clutch release bearing guide spigot.
Fun with Fly presses 5. Fitting Denbigh weights on an Edwards arm. Backyard casting.
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Fun with Fly presses 5. Fitting Denbigh weights on an Edwards arm. Backyard casting.
Screw cutting an internal Acme thread.
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Screw cutting an internal Acme thread.
Can TIG welding fix this Alloy Engine Block?
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Can TIG welding fix this Alloy Engine Block?
Machining thin steel - making some Folding blades on a milling machine.
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Machining thin steel - making some Folding blades on a milling machine.
Moving machinery with an Engine Hoist or Floor Crane.
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Moving machinery with an Engine Hoist or Floor Crane.
Oh No, we've got to move! (Current) Workshop Tour...
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Oh No, we've got to move! (Current) Workshop Tour...
How to properly put a cutter in a Clarkson Autolock Collet Chuck.
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How to properly put a cutter in a Clarkson Autolock Collet Chuck.
Removing the internal weld seam & boring out a Scaffold Tube.
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Removing the internal weld seam & boring out a Scaffold Tube.
Hi! Have you considered making an adapter to use it also as a follower/travelling rest?
I haven't. I don't have a travelling steady for this lathe. I think if I needed one I would be more inclined to adapt a travelling steady from another lathe if I couldn't get the correct one, rather than try & adapt the fixed steady.
handy job
If they were off a lawn mower, it is very common for them to get that bad. It was good that you could use the lathe to get the remains of the bearing out
Yes they WERE off a lawn mower. A 3 deck array? I did some later work on the wheels...
These flat drive are a waste of time there nothing but trouble
They can be a right PITA!
It is great to see how you made the fixture plate for the head. That was a lot of work but it looked like it turned out great
You should tighten the four "dowel" screws one at a time instead of loosening them all and tightening them all each time you are trying to position them. The way you did it ensured you introduced the maximum number of variables each time - not the way to arrive at a result in the quickest manner.
21:09 - Camera excursion when the lathe isn't rotating the chuck. 24:49 - A lot of eccentricity between rim of the chamber and the cylinder socket. 25:54 - 1) Who is responsible for the geometric relationship between the piston dome and the chamber? 2) If this is a twin, are you modifying the other head for consistent C/R?
Yes, the picture wobble must have been just from the motor vibration, I guess. The eccentricity of the combustion chamber wasn't at all noticeable until the head was spun in the lathe - must have come out of the Ducati factory like that! Deliberately? or due to Production tolerances? Ducati must have allowed plenty of clearance between the piston dome & combustion chamber. This is just a single.
@@MidEngineering Having many years of experience in the activity (lawn mowers to Mouse moters to Porsche 4 and 6 cylinders to 250 Ferraris and DFVs), I can say you have no business doing what you propose doing. Give it back to the owner to save them money.
@@SettledBatches Huh?
@@MidEngineering It is not my intent to offend, and your tool design suggests you are very talented as a machinist ('engineer' in Brit? Me too), but 'allowing plenty of clearance' is fine for lawn mower engines. High performance engines require very controlled quench clearance at the periphery of the chamber to allow high compression at low ignition lead numbers. If you and the owner have not agreed upon that number, there will be difficulties. Again, I have been building no-performance lawn mowers to Cozzy DFVs since the '60s and do have considerable (dyno-tested) knowledge regarding the issues involved.
@@SettledBatches I just did what I was asked to do. The owner had a cylinder head that wouldn't seal on the barrel. Now he has a properly working motorcycle. He installed an appropriate shim/gasket to compensate for the small amount of metal we machined off the head & keep the standard compression ratio. I think he knows his Ducati singles & I guess the bike is pretty much to the spec. it left the factory 50-60 years ago as a production road going bike.
Is there a sealing joint that fits there or is it metal to metal facing .
Metal to metal.
@@MidEngineering Thanks .
Did this increase the compression? Did it reduce valve - piston clearance? Don't know much about Ducati except desmodromic valve train.
The owner added a thin aluminium gasket to keep the original compression ratio & valve to piston clearances.
Did you check the runout of the outer face when setting up on the lathe? If that wasn't affected by the weld repair it would be your best surface to dial the inner face that needed to be machihed square to the axis as they were probably machined on the same setup in the factory. That face has to be dead nuts square to the axis of the cylinder given that this is a bevel head and and any deviation would negatively affect the meshing of the camshaft bevel gears. From other comments I understand it worked out fine but I had to point out the above detail about the gear mesh. The fixture was brilliant by the way.
Life of a jobber. 98% set-up 2% task....... Nice work.
My dear old Dad used to bore out the JAP 350/500 inlet ports on a fixture when I was a lad.
love that fixture.. great work..
Quite a lot of work to save the head, but probably worth it. Did you skim the other face to keep the depth within tolerance?
I don't think I did! This was actually a couple of years ago (!) so I'm not sure of the details but I think there was plenty of clearance there. @colinmartin2921 would know...
@@MidEngineering if it didn't come back as a reject then it must have been fine. Some bikes seal on inner and some seal on the main one and the inner bore is purely for location. If they sit on the inner, the depth can be important, either to seal or prevent distortion when torqued down.
I fashioned an aluminium gasket to replace the metal that was skimmed off, as I didn't want to affect any other variables. So far everything is working fine!
Very clever solution.
I trust you remember this Colin! Can you shed some light on the question raised in Chris Stephen's comment?
A far display of savageness and inaptitude.
Haha. Well you can't be an expert on something if you've never done it before!
thats really good welding ive sent your facebook a pm
Dont give up your day job.
Cheek! Why ever not?
Part 1 sets the story of why & what we're doing here - ua-cam.com/video/v4v6m-aj9JM/v-deo.htmlsi=41dG0JEEeOIKKeDM
Those frames are very strong. Many years ago my uncle had a Fiesta pull out in front of him on his Triumph Tiger Cub. It causes some minor damage to the forks of the bike which was easily repaired but the Fiesta was written off. That was a lot of work but it came out great
I need to remove the needle to get the number plate off to put back into the inner ring on my brown & sharp dial indicator. I have seen some pry off the needle then press it back on, are they all that way?
I really don't know but I suspect that might be the norm. Removal looks a lot easier with the right tools - ua-cam.com/video/nsv37S5exuw/v-deo.htmlsi=ElQGXLoLbJYkyoNB
Another factor here is that these frames were not made with precision originally, plus, God knows how often they would have been involved in accidents of one kind or another in the last 60 or 70 years, so any brackets may have been bent and re-bent many times.
With your boring bar - I think the chatter issue is due to boring bar deflection lowering your tool height below centre which messes up the insert cutting angle. Because boring bars protrude a lot by necessity and are not well supported by the tool post as a result, they tend to deflect downwards slightly under cutting pressure. Normally if you raise your tool height a fraction above centre height, once you start cutting, and it deflects downwards slightly, it brings your insert back to centre height so that the rake angle on the insert is correct & it can cut (plastic deformation) as designed at the correct speeds & feeds. Just a suggestion to try next time. Sorry if you already know this. 👍
Yes, boring bar deflection is the root cause of chatter. Not sure though if it is variations in cutting angle or variations in depth of cut that sets it off. The way that carbide inserts cut doesn't seem to help. The ones meant for steel don't have a proper sharp cutting edge so there is always some rubbing going on. I sometimes find the high rake inserts intended for Aluminium work better & in a boring bar they sit at an angle which makes the rake angle closer to what you might have used on an HSS cutter ground for mild steel...
You made a right dogs dinner of that one!! Wonky handle and too small surely!!
Wonky? Don't remember noticing when I used it, so I had to go & check it out. You're right - it's a bit crooked ! - Really doesn't matter though. A larger pilot hole in a larger handle would have suited the tang on the chaser better, but I've got a bunch of these little handles & in use it worked fine.
I can't imagine why anyone thought it was a good idea to cut off the mounts for the centre stand but at least the frame is in the right hands now. We need to make a part to hold a spring for a starter/generator on one of our projects and I was pleased to see you made your pin in the same way we were thinking of making ours. This is a very interesting project and I am looking forward to following along
You have all the most "interesting" jobs😉 One has to wonder at the childish behaviour of the owner to butcher a frame for a miniscule bit of extra ground clearance.
I wonder if the spring retaining pin wore & broke & rather than try & fix it they thought they could live without a centre stand. Then found the bolts were seized, so...Who knows?!
Very good. I have a channel too and I am restoring a Harrison mil. I had to make a housing from continous cast for a new knee lead nut that I made. I wish I could have cored it like this, would have saved time and material. Didn't have suitable cutters. I have subbed to you. I am Carl by the way.
What is the minimum diameter?
Using the bar in the video, I would think about 38mm.
This was an interesting project and it was good to see how you tackled this
Glad you got something from it.
I found this a very interesting and entertaining video; those annular cutters saved a lot of time!
Yes, if I had another one of these bosses to do, I would do it in the same way. If I had a few to do, I'd be looking for a larger diameter cutter with enough depth of cut to go halfway through from each end.
Very helpful. Where did you get your belt from?
store.lathes.co.uk/belts
The cutters seem to be working very well. This is an interesting project to follow, thanks
Hi . I'm thinking on buying a Colchester triumph lathe. How do you find them? Would you recommend one to someone one? Are they capable of doing some bigger jobs? Id like to be fit to make digger pins and bushes..
I've been pretty happy with mine. I went to an auction thinking about bidding on a turret mill & ended up buying this instead! Had it about 25 years now & it's been capable of dealing with pretty much anything that's come my way. Not quite big enough to do modern car wheels. I have done a few digger pins, bushes & bosses on it. Next video (when I get to finish editing it) will show some of that...
Can you cut metric and imperial threads on it? Doe it have the manual foot brake on it or is it electric?
Distortion is a bitch. Filler rod and beveling is important. After all, the end result looks great!
That was interesting - thanks. I saw the other comments but it's also the difficulty of doing one offs where you only get one shot at it. Cheers
Yes, although this wasn't strictly a one off, 6 years after the first one, it might just as well have been! You look at something & think "might be good to do..." & afterwards realise "O.K.,that wasn't a good idea..." Live & learn
Live and learn from your mistakes. A little too much heat and likely changing up your welding order would be helpful as well. Not adding any filler over a non beveled butt weld is a weak weld as you've discovered. You could butt the joints up, run a grinding wheel over the joint to include a slight bevel to allow more penetration and weld with filler metal. If the welds are ugly, you can grind them smooth and there will be adequate penetration because of the slight bevel prep from the grinder. Keep on Keeping on!
way way way too much heat, tac it way way way way way more if you don't know how to weld
Did u clean the metal? Prior ?
Yes. This was hot rolled flat steel bar so all the scale was cleaned off first.
Those longitudinal cracks are bizarre. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that in mild steel. I know you said they were autogenous welds, but does it still happen with er70-s6 filler rod? My instinct would be try try silicon bronze tig brazing. It would be plenty strong for a chair and it has really good elongation. Might also be very pretty. For the distortion I'd try tacking to the table.
No cracks after adding filler rod. I think the geometry of the base & the restraints on the parts were factors. No flexibility to allow for shrinkage in the welds. TIG brazing would be worth considering for fabrications like this. On the other hand, I had no issues with the first one I made years ago! I think I must have tacked the centre tube & all the ribs in place & then welded it with short MIG stitch welds. Far less heat input...
0.005" eccentricity is the outer limit for brake drums. Grit blast the thing and fit modern SAFTEK linings....
And I have a no4 with no arm
You're welcome to make an offer for ours - but it wouldn't come with the weights...🙂
@@MidEngineering Going to have a go at persuading a friend to sell me a flywheel from a Lister CS first, failing that I might need to go shopping
Shouldn't you align that to the bearing surfaces?
I guess, in theory, yes. But the drum would, obviously, have been machined true to the bearing surfaces when it was first made so we assumed it was still good, as the customer didn't want to take the bearings out of the hub...
Makes me glad i stopped machining when i see jobs like this.
Sounds like the Central Line on the underground!
The non-flux end of a 3mm welding electrode works just fine!
It was very interesting to see how you repaired this
Do you get a lifetime suppliy of 99's now?😂
Variety is the spice of life and you get plenty of variety.
That's true!
The wheels are very cool and they look fantastic polished. The rear wheels are huge
It must have been like polishing the inside of a barrel!
Probably! I didn't do them myself. I was watching this video earlier with the guy who actually polished them & he said it was very awkward getting inside the wide ones...