From the Workshop

April 8, 2019

Workshop blog no 22 – No 985

I wish this stainless stuff would cut as easy as the plastic. The plastic is very useful for setting up.

This is quite a heavy cut for my machine and she it is getting quite old. So it always nice to put these jobs behind me.

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With the recesses now cut I am still not out of the woods as the drilling for the custom made screws makes me worried about tool breakage – set up is critical. The drilling stage is three different tools.

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The tapping is the most dangerous part of this stage and I always take a sigh of relief if I finish without incident. One tap breakage means I am minus a plane – that is a lot of work gone down the toilet! It is not like a production line and every plane is relied on to show a profit.

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Every stage of this work has to be a well planned operation to avoid any casualties.

2 Comments »

  1. Thanks for sharing these pics. Voyeuristic as we may feel, for many of us this is as close as we will ever get to a Holtey plane. If you broke a tap could you not bore it out and refill the hole to re-drill and tap? I suspect that would be a breach of your atmospherically high quality standards?

    David

    Comment by jimjam66 — April 12, 2019 @ 4:01 pm

  2. Thanks David, you answered it for me!

    More blog to come soon

    Karl

    Comment by admin — May 8, 2019 @ 9:41 am

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