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[Scotsgun]

That thing looks heavy and ROBUST! Don't drop it on your toes.

I'd leave it in the 'white.'

[ovenpaa]

It is heavy so no chance of it tipping over. It will have an exit stage where the cases drop out, it will also have a feed system so you can load a cassette up with 50 cases and walk away and it will feed them to the table and round to the annealing stage. I could have built it as a three stage system so one in, one anneal and one eject but that would have meant getting my fingers near a hot flame if I wanted to feed manually so this way I can load both ways safely.

Knowing me it it will be left in white, I just wish I could get the top platen in my lathe so I could give it a nice facing cut, I might be able to get it into my wood lathe and improvise.......

[Scotsgun]

I might be able to get it into my wood lathe and improvise.......

Don't even think about it. The bearings on a wood lathe are nowhere as fine or smooth. I'm talking from experience.

[ovenpaa]

Hmm... Good point, I may have to go for the satin DA finish then....

The bearings arrived today, it took me all of 5 seconds to realise I had forgotten to order the top thrust bearing.. BLAST! With luck it will be here tomorrow and I can start putting it together, I need to fit the bearing blocks, tap the legs M8 and shorten the torch bracket slightly, also machine the eject port and check the rotating station alignment so a few things to do yet. Plus I still have not built the motor fixing block for the main drive...

Here it is on it's feet, all of a sudden I am not so happy with the proportions of the unit, it seems a bit leggy to me.

[Michael Sproul]

Wow, now this is some shed project!!! Sadly nothing makes me feel like more of a boy when guys like you talk about man rooms and lathes etc etc :( Wish I had the skills, ain't even got a shed!

[ovenpaa]

The closest I had got to a Milling machine was walking past one years ago until a couple of months ago, a bot of common sense and a healthy regard for my fingers and it all seems to be OK so far.

[EagerNoSkill]

I reckon lower floor can be used to store the small propane bottles
:G
2 nd floor some fire eating knife making goblins

But seriously footprint is small high and sturdy is better than flat and wide on a workbench

[Scotsgun]

Here it is on it's feet, all of a sudden I am not so happy with the proportions of the unit, it seems a bit leggy to me.

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Don't alter anything until you've had a chance to test it in operation. Then you can make modifications at your leisure.

[ovenpaa]

Now it may not look very different but this time it is all bolted together, the shaft is machined and in place and the drive is timed to the turntable, the shaft has a register to align it and is milled to key in to the table, a 6mm caphead holds the table down in place. The torch bracket has been shortened back as it was too long and in this picture the bracket is being checked for position, about here is good I think (Check out the 7,62x51 case wedging in place!)

Tomorrow I will bore the ejector port which is just a hole the cases drop through and fit the case rotating station.

[Scotsgun]

Can you show us a close-up of the mechanism which rotates the brass case in-situ; how it rotates whilst in the flame?