Post a picture and description of anything you are working on this month at the 'Space here!
It can be anything from a small craft project to a large CNC router project to building a table to 3D printing to a science experiment and so much more. There are lots of people doing cool things at DMS all the time, but most of us don’t get to see it. Post it here and share the interesting things you are doing at Dallas Makerspace this month!
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I had to make a tensioner for our Honda Accord since my oldest appears to have lost the OEM one. Took a piece of 3/4” cold rolled, faced both ends and chamfered. I then drilled & tapped it for 8mm 1.25. I welded a cut off bolt to act as the tensioning element. I wish I had time to Tig weld it but mig will have to do.
Made a couple of game accessories for a new official format in Magic The Gathering.
Tried coloring the Birch wood with food coloring, as I had seen online. Everything was cut and engraved with the Thunder laser cutters.
A couple months ago I asked about cutting a small blade for a Kerf knife.
This is the results of my venture. I cut 3 blades from a .033 thick card scraper using a Dremel. In blacksmithing, @coloneldan showed me the KMG grinder, and I took them down to .025. Took the sheet metal class @Mrholthaus and formed the backs. Turned the handles from Cocobolo and Rosewood. Epoxied blade into handle.
Process was:
Bandsaw off some stock
Square/face stock in mill
Drill/tap/chamfer center hole
Drill/ream gauge holes
Drill/tap clamp holes
Slitting saw clamp holes
Drill out one side of clamp holes
More Chamfers
Vapor Hone (mainly to see how much machining marks it would erase)
Install shoulder bolt and remove head
Rough turned freshly cut (I think) Red Elm, it’s just under 16" across. Jane and I got a shower. I could see the water flying and I had a stream running down my bowl gouge flute.
Final weight was still almost 8.5lbs. Now we play the waiting game as it dries.
My 6’2" youngest daughter (whose spirit animal is a giraffe) chose Gigi for her name when her granddaughter arrived a year ago. Now that the little one is walking and running, Gigi needed a place to put all the toys she must buy!
A little 5/4 Spanish cedar, lid-stay torsion hinges, a 3D model by my Greek model making goddess Elina Panagakou, some CNC time, nifty character painting by Erika Bauer Thornton of Artist Till Death, and here we are. Interior is 18"x18"x36".
I made another part for my bead roller project last night. It’s a knob for the height adjustment. I used the Tormach profile mode and kinda winged it with the shape.
A few larger pieces last month.
36” diameter walnut and matte black resin tabletop. Still trying to decide what to do for the base so it’s hanging on the wall until then.
24” diameter walnut burl and white pigmented resin with two clear top coats. For more porous woods, the two top coats are necessary to get rid of resin dimpling.
And lastly, a bunch of crosses made with real dried flowers and almost entirely made of excess resin. When I do larger pours it’s common I pour a little too much and resin is $$$$ so I use leftovers in these cross molds and always have a few in progress to catch the drips
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