{"id":3079,"date":"2015-02-16T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:29:33","slug":"tiny-but-mighty-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Tiny but Mighty Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mighty<\/a>

Mighty Mouse<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t posted here for some time. I have been busy doing a ton of work on other projects and the “machining of steel” part of my shop has been a bit idle. I have been machining wax so that counts for something.<\/p>\n

But I made up for the slack a very tiny bit last night by machining a small locating pin for my wife’s sewing machine from a steel rod. Hardly worth mentioning actually, but like I said, its been a long time and no posts here.<\/p>\n

What I started with was about a two inch length of 3\/16 (0.1875) inch steel rod. The pin finished out at about 5\/8 (0.625) inches long. The ends needed to be different diameters for half the length each. I took no measurements and just turned the pin to fit the existing holes. This was a repair\/replacement for an existing plastic pin that broke. I replace one several years ago that is along side of this current one. The pins are used for locating a removable platform or deck around the sewing head. The steel pins are of course much more durable than the original.<\/p>\n

The fat end of the pin is a press fit into the plastic platform base and the small end slides into a locating hole on the machine base.<\/p>\n

OK, so the point is — this pin is not something you can just go somewhere and purchase, and it is far better than the existing plastic part it replaces. It is a better invention. (That’s my favorite new word, invention<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

It was super easy to make. The lathe (I used the PD400) is always set up. Total time even with finding the steel rod, was about 30 minutes. I also used the cutoff saw to cut the initial rod to length and then a file to round over the edge on the small end of the pin to finish it nicely.<\/p>\n

The very best part is being the super hero<\/strong> (well, sort of) to my spouse by using my extreme skills as a machinist and using my workshop to fix a serious problem in her sewing avocation. Shush, don’t laugh how easy this was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted here for some time. I have been busy doing a ton of work on other projects and the “machining of steel” part of my shop has been a bit idle. I have been machining wax so that counts for something. But I made up for the slack a very tiny bit last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,10],"tags":[107,133],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metalwork","category-workshop","tag-lathe","tag-pd400"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}