Big machines to make little things

[Nefarious]

I made DJ's little chair pieces today. I had planned to cut them out with my mate's plasma cutter, but as I had to go to his factory to collect it, and he wasn't there, I figured why not make use of the big machines...

Here are the finished pieces with a pound coin for scale


Here are the various bits of kit used in the process:
To punch out the centre holes -


Giant guillotine to cut the blanks -


Tilt press to cut out the shapes (amazing bit of kit BTW) -


Giant fly press to flatten everything after grinding -


And finally, the pillar drill for the bolt holes -


Ain't no kill like overkill

[NotoriousREV]

Images aren’t showing (for me at least)

[Nefarious]

Better?

[Swervin_Mervin]

[NotoriousREV]

Better?

Looks like you had a fun day

[mik]

I don’t even know what a tilt-press is!

Fabricating things from scratch is CAF.

[Nefarious]

I don’t even know what a tilt-press is!

Fabricating things from scratch is CAF.

It's like a giant 80 tonne punch with a big right angled die. The trick is that the table is tilt-able in 3 dimensions (and has pop-up bits for more complicated shapes). It has capabilities way beyond my skill and experience. Oh, and even second hand, it's about £40k.

[Zonda_]

I can only see the last pic.

[V8Granite]

The last time I was at A and P Tyne about 10 years ago they still had a lathe about 20 metres long for tailshafts

In China they had huge vertical mills making massive flanges which was an impressive hit of kit. The table was about 1 metre high and the rest of the base and bed about 5 metres down!!

This video is fascinating and shows how old technology is still very important, the clever Germans doing what they do best.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk

Dave!

[DeskJockey]

I am very grateful for your help and also glad that you got to play with some proper toys!

[McSwede]

The last time I was at A and P Tyne about 10 years ago they still had a lathe about 20 metres long for tailshafts

In China they had huge vertical mills making massive flanges which was an impressive hit of kit. The table was about 1 metre high and the rest of the base and bed about 5 metres down!!

This video is fascinating and shows how old technology is still very important, the clever Germans doing what they do best.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk

Dave!

Thanks for sharing

[nuttinnew]

Nef
V8Granite cool vid, very interesting, ta

[Nefarious]

The last time I was at A and P Tyne about 10 years ago they still had a lathe about 20 metres long for tailshafts

In China they had huge vertical mills making massive flanges which was an impressive hit of kit. The table was about 1 metre high and the rest of the base and bed about 5 metres down!!

This video is fascinating and shows how old technology is still very important, the clever Germans doing what they do best.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk

Dave!

Nice vid, thanks Dave. I feel suitably small again

[RobYob]

Very cool video and bits, making and machining stuff is a skill I wish I had, a semester of it at uni showed me it was a bit too much like hard work though.

[duncs500]

After uni I worked for a stainless steel fabrication place (mainly for boats). They had a CNC tube bender which was pretty mesmerising to watch. Probably old tech now, but at the time it was one of only a few in Europe IIRC.

[duncs500]

Looked exactly like this:

[RobYob]

Cool, Ariel should be able to make a one piece chassis with one of those!

For whatever reason only the first and last of Nef's pictures are visible to me on both PC and Android phone. Very odd.

[Simon]

Same.

[Nefarious]

Is that better?

[Simon]

Nope.