Springfield Flyer.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Mike, is the company named: Fusterclucks-R-Us!  I think we have all dealt with them more than we care to remember! 
At least South African miles are shorter - right? 

[tauruck]

Hey Woody, I don't even know why I was surprised!!!!
This happens all the time. Things have changed but
we have to fight on. Actually our miles are longer.
Kilometers! .

I'm also guilty of not delivering though. Geo sent me
a Jaguar dash all the way from the US for me to
copy in carbon and it's kicked my butt big time.
He probably hates me right now but we'll have
another go at it. Geo, I'm sorry man.

[wobblywalrus]

Mike, as per hole saw speed and feed, it can vary a lot.  The best source for that info is a call to the manufacturer.  Sometimes it is on their website.

Sometimes I drill in with the hole saw just enough to make a circular cut.  Then, a hole or two are drilled down through the cut and through the piece.  A 1/8-inch drill often is the right size.  Then I finish the hole with the hole saw.  I am not sure why this helps and often it does not.  In some situations, though, it makes it easier.

[tauruck]

Bo, you're right. I actually forgot about drilling the small holes to get the hole saw some purchase. Thanks man.
I dropped my wheels off today to have the centres welded in.

I did fit the one front 15" wheel I have onto the rear end just to check the offset. All Good. The axle wasn't all the way into the tube
as it is at present. It will go further in by about 2".

 Now we wait!.

[tauruck]

Just got a call from the wheel guy to quote me and ask for the go ahead!!!!!!.
You know what my answer was. .

NOW i'm excited.

[SPARKY]

 

[floydjer]

Mike, as per hole saw speed and feed, it can vary a lot.  The best source for that info is a call to the manufacturer.  Sometimes it is on their website.

Sometimes I drill in with the hole saw just enough to make a circular cut.  Then, a hole or two are drilled down through the cut and through the piece.  A 1/8-inch drill often is the right size.  Then I finish the hole with the hole saw.  I am not sure why this helps and often it does not.  In some situations, though, it makes it easier.

It gives the chips an escape route as opposed grinding them into a slurry of cutting oil/ tiny ball bearings for the cutter to ride on.....Learned that one from Lil` John Buttera

[Crackerman]

I ha e always had good results in heavy material using the slowest speed on drill press, moderate to heavy pressure and liberal use of soapy water in a squirt bottle. Even,stainless. It typically buzzes through like a hot knife in butter. And if you keep the coolant going, the cutter only barely gets warm.

[floydjer]

And for strange reason that perhaps one of our resident chemists can explain....Elmer`s glues  make a splendid lube/coolant when cutting stainless.

[floydjer]

Pre-emptive strike.... You put the glue on the cutter...Do not sniff it.....................

[tauruck]

We got glue sniffers here too!!!!


Thanks Crackerman.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Tangent:

Anybody else have a vague memory of airplane glue that smelled kinda like banana?  I don't think I got told not to sniff it too much -- in the 50s we didn't have all of those pesky warning labels.

[tauruck]

I was looking for some high quality steel tubing for the liner a while back a really cool guy called Peter from BSPE
helped me. I posted about what he did about a year ago.

Anyway last week I was having doubts about the material I was using for the rear end mounting tubes. I was just
about ready to start welding up the triangles but decided to give Peter a call and see if he had some good stuff first.

He called Friday and said I should go to his warehouse on Saturday morning and pick up a 6m length of heavy wall
tubing. He even had Arthur waiting there for me as a favour. Art cut the tube into 4 pieces and there was no charge again!!!.
Peter says my money is no good at BSPE. There are so many awesome people around. This guy is special.

He did say the tube has a high Moly content and I want to use NI99 tig rods. You guys know way more than I ever will so I
want to ask if my idea is OK?.

The tube has a bunch of stuff printed on it that doesn't mean much to me.
Benteler EN10216-2-16-M03-TC2.
It's 38,04mm OD and has 4mm wall.

[wobblywalrus]

Hi Mike, as a Ford guy, you will like these pix from the flugplatz today.

[wobblywalrus]

Another two.