Ognibs other deuce

[Twokidsnosleep]

I thought you were doing shots 

[10thumbs]

By the way, Ray that's a real smooth surface you're milling there, looks fantastic!

How is the cutting oil working out compared to past ventures? 

[Ognib]

It kinda has the right color for shots.

Cutting oil is working well.

Enjoying the process of doing.

Working on tightening up the concentricity of the piece.
Numbers for each of the jaws are stamped into the table. I'm reading the thickness of each of the 4 points & practicing at shifting the position of the piece on the table. I would like to see the tolerance at a couple of thousands max.
That's the excitement in all this...learning how to read & manipulate the machine so that it gives me what I want, when I spin tie knobs.

[Ognib]

A year ago, this corner was full of guitar cases holding my collection. Been accumulating them for 20 yrs...kinda like bringing stray dogs home when I was a kid. I've sold a few, given a few away to close friends who had taken a shine to a particular piece & after some rearranging in the git shop, moved the rest of them there.
Now, I've got 8' of new bench space.I knew earlier this summer that the corner wasn't going to cut it, space wise. Just took a while to accomplish the logistics necessary to arrive at this point.



Room for the nitro project on one end...



...and the coupe on the other.

 

Edited September 5, 2016 by Ognib

[Twokidsnosleep]

A man of many talents!

Really like the wheels you have chosen in the mock up

Did a bit of RC stuff myself....more so electric. Might get back into it again in my third childhood

[10thumbs]

Congrats on the new bench area.  Hey, I can smell the freshly cut new wood way over here!

Good stuff Ray.

[Ognib]

Thanks for stopping in, guys.

I wanted an accentuated big n little effect with the tires. Need a little tweak on the body set now. Want the horizontal body line to match the angle of the dangle between the tires.

[John Clutch]

Great eye for the body line angle. That makes a world of difference, plus deuces look killer with a lot of body rake.

[Ognib]

Ya, & it's the little things like that, when I don't...get it right, that really irk me! 

 

[10thumbs]

What John wrote is a good point of view, also Ray, your tire line is a great way to check things out.  Good method.

[Ognib]

I'm kinda up against the learning curve on my mill work. So while new information gestates in my mind that will help the quality of my work, I've spent the morning developing templates for cross members & mounts for the front control arms. They fit the frame nicely & I've got them level, front to back.

 

[Ognib]

 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Hoping all is well as you haven't posted in a while. 

[Ognib]

Hi Bob, thanks for checking on me.

Everything's good.

Getting ready to move.  Triple the size of my guitar shop & 4 or 5 times more room for my model bench & other projects.

Spending what free time I have practicing on tightening up my setup & execution skills on the mill.

 

[blunc]

great to see more happening on this.

I have a few 1/8 projects gestating on the "way back" burner, so I'm soaking up info on parts and design ideas. 

 

[Ognib]

Hey mike, what's in the 1:8 cache?

[blunc]

Hey mike, what's in the 1:8 cache?

hmmm, let's see...

85 Camaro (minus body, donated to a friend for RC use)

85 Corvette

32 ford, x2

Golden T

Street T (glue bomb)

Big T

Big T (glue bomb)

E-Type Jag, x2

Tall T

Most of these were acquired back in the '80's and '90's when sales were good and ebay wasn't stupid.

[Ognib]

Nice collection.  Plenty there to keep you busy for quite a while. 

[blunc]

yup, a few things to kitbash with, but they will wait till I finish a few in the other end of the scale spectrum.

got a few 1/32 scale projects to finish up first.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Any recent updates?

[Ognib]

Nothing recent.

Moved last weekend.

Getting the house & shops set up now.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Anymore progress on this. Very cool project.

[Ognib]

 

Hey Bob, thanks for checking on me.  Hope all is well with you!

I moved in Feb & between getting settled in, starting a new veg garden from scratch, building benches & shelves & setting up the shops...guitar shop in the basement & hobby shop in garage, I haven't got back on this project yet.

I did look through all the boxes where it is packed a couple of days ago & felt a bit of an emotional tug to get it moving again.  Maby this fall.

Part of the problem has also been my reaction to the extortion move pulled by photobucket...not sure how I would ever accurately replicate everything in the thread to make it viewable again.  Guess I should have been using the attachment feature on the forum all along.

Here's a few shots of the garage shop...I'm insulating a bit at a time so I can tap into the HVAC & hold some heat & cool out here...adding lights etc, etc.  A lot more room here than in the previous little cubby hole I was working in. 

 

 

Edited September 21, 2017 by Ognib

[Ognib]

I dug into the moving boxes where this project is stored, again.  Looked at everything.  Looked at most of the pics taken along the way & kept coming back to the engine as my current strongest interest for the project.

Recently did a simple mill job in brass for a friend & am focusing on building my skills & abilities on the mill.  So mill work on an engine block...right in line. 

First pic shows a previous pic of the engine with the plugs roughed in for the heads.

Decided the block should be the next piece.  Found an odd shaped piece of aluminum that's an off cut from something else & determined that it is big enough.

Squared up the ends with a couple of facing cuts, dyed the end & scratched the front shape of the plastic engine block to work to.

I've got the rotary table set at 90 deg.  A few magnetic welding jigs to help stabilize it & a clamp to help keep the table from rotating during machining.

Since it's a fairly large chunk hanging off the front, I fabbed a press fixture to support the front of the plug.  Make the setup as rigid as possible.

 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Cool.  Glad to see you are back working on this.