Kampai Custom
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:08 am
I've been loitering around the forums for a while and am slowly getting my gear sorted so thought I would join the ranks on here with a Journal.
I haven't decided 100% on a name for the boards yet but Kampai is the current leader, I love Japan pow and love beer so seems a pretty good name.
I finally finished modifying my press so it is how I want it.
I think it was Goz who once said "you don't know what you want in a press until you have built one" wow that was 100% accurate. I started with this press being loaded from the end. But that didn't work out the way I really wanted, so the mods started then. Then a big heavy table frame came available at work so the press got a nice working height added to it. If I ever build another one it will probably take me less than half the time and be twice as good
I've made a fully ball bearing raced profile table with vacuum hold down.
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I also made a slide through flame treatment set up. I did quite a few test pieces while I adjusted the burner heights and making different gas jets until I got the best results. It is very promising so far but obviously it is going to need a few boards getting used and abused to prove it I guess. It makes flame treatment a damn quick exercise though, takes me about 15 seconds to light the torches and pass a base through it, but the main thing I'm hoping for is repeatability, now the burners and gas jets are all set hopefully every time I light it I get the same result.
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I have also turned up on the lathe a set of rollers for bending edges.
I have made the grooves to suit two edges back to back so both the left and right edge is bent in one go. I also did grooves the opposite way (deep grooves on the two far rollers) so I can do the sidecut radius too.
It's a nice big solid vice and all the rollers have bearings top and bottom so there is near to zero deflection.[/img]
The handle was something I quickly just bolted down to try it out but I haven't gotten around to making anything fancy yet, the one on it works just fine for now anyway.
I haven't decided 100% on a name for the boards yet but Kampai is the current leader, I love Japan pow and love beer so seems a pretty good name.
I finally finished modifying my press so it is how I want it.
I think it was Goz who once said "you don't know what you want in a press until you have built one" wow that was 100% accurate. I started with this press being loaded from the end. But that didn't work out the way I really wanted, so the mods started then. Then a big heavy table frame came available at work so the press got a nice working height added to it. If I ever build another one it will probably take me less than half the time and be twice as good
I've made a fully ball bearing raced profile table with vacuum hold down.
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I also made a slide through flame treatment set up. I did quite a few test pieces while I adjusted the burner heights and making different gas jets until I got the best results. It is very promising so far but obviously it is going to need a few boards getting used and abused to prove it I guess. It makes flame treatment a damn quick exercise though, takes me about 15 seconds to light the torches and pass a base through it, but the main thing I'm hoping for is repeatability, now the burners and gas jets are all set hopefully every time I light it I get the same result.
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I have also turned up on the lathe a set of rollers for bending edges.
I have made the grooves to suit two edges back to back so both the left and right edge is bent in one go. I also did grooves the opposite way (deep grooves on the two far rollers) so I can do the sidecut radius too.
It's a nice big solid vice and all the rollers have bearings top and bottom so there is near to zero deflection.[/img]
The handle was something I quickly just bolted down to try it out but I haven't gotten around to making anything fancy yet, the one on it works just fine for now anyway.