I picked quite a tidy 3 ft Geith digging bucket awhile back for a very sensible amount, but that needed a little work to make it usable on my 'Drema.
The original hangers were too narrow and it only had 50mm pins on 380mm centres, plus one cheek plate had a slight bend in it.
Finally got around to giving it some attention two weeks ago.
Whipped the angle out the middle first, ........
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.........then flipped it on its side and gave it some with the 'axe'!!
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quick tap and oops!!
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quick flip again and ditto t'other side............
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set it up, the right way up for a 'bit of grinding'!!
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and a while later ended up with this .........
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Ready for some new cheeks to get planted on.
The originals were, as I say, too close together, wrong centres and only 50mm pins, which was pretty small, considering the size of this bucket and had that bend in the front end of one cheek!!
Having had a good look at this, it's going to want a bottom at some point in the future, but'll stick a bit of action first.
Found a 2 footer, virtually identical to this one on Fleabay last night, for not a huge amount ........ but in need of/will need cheeks, as can only be expected - 'Drema does not seem to have what one could call 'std' dimensions!!
knocked out a couple of 20mm profiles for some cheeks to replace the 25mm ones that came off the 3 footer ..........
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......... to sit back on there
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Can see now why I left the front triangles on there !
Then set about 'em with the Ying Tong ......... More about this in a later post.
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Hole no 9 with it and still nice and sharp - the drive spigot however wasn't looking too hot half way through no 10 !!!!
So it looked like it may have to get a no. 3 morse sleeve welded to it in the near future, but is gonna leave me a bit short on travel!!
So I dug out a collet chuck set that was too good to not keep, when I was clearing out my old workshop, (glad I did) and spent an hour cleaning up a collet to take the No. 3 sleeve, which'd give me the required depth from the mandrel of the mag stand to hopefully finish off No. 10 hole, produce 11 & 12 and hopefully several more yet.
The Ying Tong has done remarkably well, considering I'm giving it some sort of testing, on what I'm asking of it!!
The drive left a lot to be desired, unfortunately and was succumbing to the grief of driving that gert hole saw attached to it
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No matter how frequently I check the chuck for tightness! It inevitably worked loose as it's as soft as the proverbial tish!!
So...... it got one of these welded to it this morning........
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A #2 to #3 morse taper sleeve and was going to use my Collet chuck assembly to drive it
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As it's a good solid bit of kit!! Tool room rigidity!
Hole #10 got finished off with a different drive to the Ying Tong, for reasons I can not for the life of me recall at this moment in time?????
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But 11 & 12, got the collet chuck treatment and good it was too!!
Both the alternate drives were too tall for conventional use of the mag, so had to improvise a bit and make sure nothing was gonna make a bid for freedom - or move a muscle.
Ying Tong will not stand for any flexing.
This plate leaves a lot to be desired in the quality control dept., even though its cert.ed and traceable (supposedly) , I reckon it's also a bit of Ying Tong's finest too - has hard nodules in it (where they don't smelt the scrap properly in the pot!!)
Gives the cutter hell and me palpitations when I hear it hit a hard spot!!!
Used to get it a lot in UBs and big flats - would take all the bloody teeth off the bandsaw blades!! At 60 quid a blade, a couple in a day used to make for a very depressed/pissed off Druid!!
Actually lost a TCT tooth on one bit that day, but it's still hanging in there!!
Patience is a virtue and one that is needed by the dumper load, to get away with what I'm asking of this lil' cutter.
I may need to invest a further 12 quid shortly, as it's getting a tad tired, but it's got four bosses to ream/bore tomorrow, then it can have a rest for a little while!!
Weather was been less than optimal here that day - ('kin freezing actually and 'damp'), but ploughed on and ended up with this, at close of play.
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As you can tell - 'twere dark-ish, by the time I'd persuaded said Ying Tong through both profiles (between other things, of course)!!
Plenty to plod on with though !!!