Portable Workbench Build Process
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Posted 18th March 2021
The part then came off the lathe and I scribbled over it in pen and marked the intended length of the flange. I then clamped it in the bandsaw vice and sawed off the excess:
Then it was back in the chuck for facing and turning the outside diameter of the flange down to 50 mm.
Finally I used my very small chamfering tool to chamfer both outside corners of the flange and again used a hand-held deburring tool to chamfer the corner of the bore.
Et voila!
Test fit in the fixed jaw with the tube inserted.
My next job is to make another one exactly the same. After that I've got a few more parts to make, but none of them are anywhere near as critical. There are a couple with critical bores, but the actual dimension isn't important, just the fact that they're parallel. I'll (later) make the steel bits that slide in the bore and I'll size them to suit the sizes of the bores in the brass parts - it's much easier to measure the OD repeatedly during turning, so I'd rather do it that way round given the choice.
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