theBAZco: Baz's milling adventures on the road to plastic injection

Bought a small mill and a rotary table....pretty excited about it so let the fun begin and the mistakes as I go. First to centre the table I made a small round piece that i can use to centre the table but also the bits for milling.....picture time

Let's see if it works

Not perfect but not bad for a first go

So lets begin the project of plastic injection.

No idea what I am doing and if it will work but why hold back hahaha.

So I bought a hollow round tube of 50mm by 300mm long and a flat piece of aluminium also 300mm long.

eBay for now until I can find some local.

Picture time after all that blablabla.

Cut 2 pieces of the flat and put a hole down the middle with that round piece from before.

Main reason is that I don't have line up the bolt holes I am going drill and the round for finding centre later

And drop it in place in the rotary

Just like that

Bolt it down and make halve depth cut to hold the tube in place latter

Doing it for top and bottom plate

Let's see if the tube fits

So far so good.allready have cut some tap wired rod with a handsaw.... That is hard work....hhhmm maybe a new drop saw?? Nah not yet. Let's bolt it down for a test

Better try a piston next or all is for nothing

That bolt is going into a rod and a nut for support

Did another round piece a bit lower held in place with 2 nuts...this will be the guide bit inside the pipe.did a test and it works....well it does for now.

Time to make a nozzle and fixing plate and a fill piece as I am making it all from the same flat piece of aluminium