Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Larry Hill]

Tail stock off by . 040” shame on me for not checking it in the beginning. As it stands no harm no foul.

[Frank Castros]

Larry works as hard as anyone in the game.

[Larry Hill]

Using a microscope and a drill index I can figure out what is the size of some of the small radius. If my modification to the parts cause them to break, I at least observed the radius.

[Larry Hill]

I’m really happy with the lathe. Once I got a few items of tooling done we knocked out the 18 parts in first operation quickly.

[Larry Hill]

Talk about no knowing that you need a tool until you get the tool, a microscope is a good example. Modifying the oh so popular Gen 3 Hemi valve train to get it to “fit”. I wanted to observe all of the radii of the parts that needed some trimming. So I find the radius gage set from our crankshaft grinding days and find a few popular Chevy size missing. I must have left them close to the grinding wheel radius dresser when we sold the crank grinder. I figured out what we need to observe and unwrap new tool bits that supposedly have the correct radius, not. The radius was not full it had a point in the middle. It may have been ok to use but if there is very little parts support it’s not good enough.
As i think Dennis Miller would sign off with “ And so it goes”

[Larry Hill]

The loner test fit head got here Friday but being a grandparent was way more important than working on the elephant this past weekend.

[Larry Hill]

Sometimes you stumble upon a deal. Case in point is the PRI show a few years ago. Pac had a show special on the spring height micrometers I bought all four they had and today I used the real small ones and they are very accurate. It was a case of nothing else would work besides snap gages. And I hate snap gages. Thank you PA C