Your smaller machined part ;)

This is mine: tyre's valvle.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/machining/CIMG6173.jpg

Would be cool post also the bigger one!!!

Beautiful work G. You've really got your head around that lathe. Are you making more than one of them?!:grinyes:

Not my work (I've stolen the picture from Thunder Valley F1) but check out those nut and bolt heads on the sidecases at the back of the photo!

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb224/cinqster-photo/287865788_d5aff45f55.jpg

I know that they're CNC'ed but how do they make large quantites of them at a time? I can't imagine working that small by hand!:banghead:

Cool Gio, how do you do that without it breaking off? This is one of the things I am struggling with at the moment. I find when I get under 1mm it breaks off.

Mike

Nice gio :smokin:

http://www.its-not-unusual.de/album/Parts/hex.JPG

http://www.its-not-unusual.de/album/Bracket%20Racer/brretmember-b.JPG

Aleks :)

http://www.its-not-unusual.de

(ALEKS: fantastic job)

Cool Gio, how do you do that without it breaking off? This is one of the things I am struggling with at the moment. I find when I get under 1mm it breaks off.

Mike

I got the same problem until now: I guess some helps would be:

- you see that the thiny bit has a "big foot" with bigger diameters, this I guess help to contain if not prevents vibrations, my thought is that the minor diam. collapse for vibrations, but react well at longitudinal forces

- a perfect tuning of the cutter tool heigh: it must be exactly at the rod's center/axis

- since a thini diam can't afford a big force I used a 45° tool's bit, so it touch the alu in 1 only point

later I'll post some job's step, I seen you'll cut very thin diam (0.2 mm?) but not so long... I'm working on those factor since I need 6-8mm long wires (turned, comples form) by 0.2 mm diam ;) to do....... :D wire spoked rims :D