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Although this post is slightly lathe, sorry late,. it is posted to show the expertise one of our forum friends with one of his new garage toys.
the requirement was to achieve three sprockets in the same plane,one of them, on the pump was fairly fixed so that was our datum. This was so that a chain drive could be taken from the bottom pulley to drive a hydraulic pump with an idler for tension.
The idler, which can be seen needed spacing forward but the main job was to make a spacer to be able to attach a sprocket to the bottom pulley in the correct plane so we started with this:-
A few passes later and it looked like this:-
The next stage was to drill the holes through which the bolts would pass to hold the bottom sprocket to the bottom pulley.
Installed to try it for size it looked like this:-
This was the major part of the work done, the idler needed moving forward to line the idler sprocket with the other two. This was achieved with two machined tubes and two modified bolts (not pictured )
However all this took place a couple of weeks ago at, you've all guessed right! Chris's machine shop Chesterfield.
I must thank Chris for the machining and Clare for the snacks and teas on that rainy afternoon.
If anyone needs this type of machining doing I would recommend asking Chris if he is interested. His expertise and enthusiasm are second to none but if I hear the expression " machining porn" again I'll bloody well scream.
Cheers again Chris
Andy
the requirement was to achieve three sprockets in the same plane,one of them, on the pump was fairly fixed so that was our datum. This was so that a chain drive could be taken from the bottom pulley to drive a hydraulic pump with an idler for tension.
The idler, which can be seen needed spacing forward but the main job was to make a spacer to be able to attach a sprocket to the bottom pulley in the correct plane so we started with this:-
A few passes later and it looked like this:-
The next stage was to drill the holes through which the bolts would pass to hold the bottom sprocket to the bottom pulley.
Installed to try it for size it looked like this:-
This was the major part of the work done, the idler needed moving forward to line the idler sprocket with the other two. This was achieved with two machined tubes and two modified bolts (not pictured )
However all this took place a couple of weeks ago at, you've all guessed right! Chris's machine shop Chesterfield.
I must thank Chris for the machining and Clare for the snacks and teas on that rainy afternoon.
If anyone needs this type of machining doing I would recommend asking Chris if he is interested. His expertise and enthusiasm are second to none but if I hear the expression " machining porn" again I'll bloody well scream.
Cheers again Chris
Andy
