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Design and build of a cutting and grinding centre. It can use carbide tipped saws, slitting saws and diamond grit stone for tools.

Well today I manage to finish tapping both top and bottom sets of securing bolts before making a fixture to cut the 16 or so bolts to same size. Once this was done it was over to the milling machine to firstly cut three slots before switching to the cutter to make the ‘T’ Slots. [...]

How one model engineer made a saw table that can use two different sized Carbide tipped blades. It can also hold a diamond grindstone wheel for tool sharpening and slitting saws.

The design and build of a saw table progresses and this session covers the safety guard

Saw table project is improved by the addition of an adaptor which will allow the fitting of slitting saws to the project.

Over the last couple of sessions I have made some progress on the saw table project. Today I completed the quadrant for the saw height adjustment and assembled all the parts to date. I decided that the next job would be to give the back plate a little ‘clean up’ and used a wire brush [...]

Today was another short session but at least it was a session! I continued to work on the handle assembly for the belt tensioning system.
After turning down the brass for the main part (it’s the nicest cutting brass I have ever used) the centre was centre drilled, drilled and tapped to suit the studding. [...]

Self designed carbide tipped blade table saw tensioner system worked on and uses threaded studding to vary the tension pulley.

How welding aluminium worked well using Durafix but the normally successful silver soldering for steel didn’t work so well for a model engineer