This kind of my thing, so I'll take it.
I probably have 15 or 20 screw drivers laying around, both powered and manual. Same for pliers, several kinds. Hand operated saws? oh yea, all kinds. And then there are the power tools.
That's where it gets pricey. The lathe cost $800 with extras, about 10 years ago. Lucky on the drill press, salvaged from a factory where I once worked. I have two compressors. One says Sears on it, but the one I use most, says Briggs & Stratten on it. (Instructions on request)
I have enough stuff to make most of the other machine tools I may want/need. I have about 2 tons of various sizes of steel/iron. Electric motors, form 1/4hp to 2hp.. Nearly countless ball bearings. I think you get the point.
I collected this stuff for years. I built the work shop to store it all in. It didn't happen over night. Nor will it in your case. One tool a week is how it starts. Quickly followed by finding a way/place to store it.
Justified by...But I need this to fix something. Hey, it worked for me.
On the bench at the moment is, a band saw. Design is pertty much done. Now I'm cutting angle iron and working on the motor base. Plans? That is what I have the TurboCad for. Great for doing layouts by the way.
If enough find this useful, I'll continue this. Otherwise....sigh, so much to make/so little time.
GaryR
So what do you plan on making?? Train wise that is, with all of that stuff.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Pertty much everything having to do with a G scale (or nearly so) train and layout. Tween the band saw and a few other things, I'm making the wheels for the rolling stock now. I need the band saw cause it's real pain hack sawing the wheels from the 1 1/4" bar stock once the outboard side of the wheel is turned. Pic of the wheel posted in the general forum earlyer, and on my flickr pages. The rails, I'll probably buy. I do have limits....of a sort.
This may seem like a monumental undertaking, but after 20 years in r/c model aircraft, and a "few" other things, it's not that big of a deal.
The crimper is moving forward. Here you see the turning of the end of the gear stock in ready ness for the bearing. It's for 1/2" bearings but is actually .5005" very slightly over sized. This provides for "run in" with the roller needle bearing.
The lathe is a 7X12 mini lathe from Micro Mark I bought some years ago. Camera used is a Nikon D40x w/ 18-55 wide angle zoom, 1/200 F29, popup flash.
If anybody cares. Here's the crimper.
There is some small advantage to annealing the pop can metal. It will do roof flashing "IF" it's annealed.
Best results come from running the metal back and forth through the crimper a few times. I found it very easy to put the metal back into the crimper later. The sheet in the crimper is annealed. The sheet laying in front of it isn't.
Was it worth the cost and time? It was to me anyway. The image of it on my flickr page is a lot bigger. Hey, I love that visegrip handle....
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