Show us something that you MADE...

[kioti]

Originally Posted by GS Addict

If you did that the hard way - way cool!

Yep, all done on manual machines about 6-7 years ago, made 8 of them and sent to friends for Christmas presents, a few are still trying to figure it out.
I made a collet to hold them in a 3 jaw set true chuck to eliminate having to indicate each face, it worked pretty well as it held the cubes within .001 on each position change.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by kioti

Yep, all done on manual machines about 6-7 years ago, made 8 of them and sent to friends for Christmas presents, a few are still trying to figure it out.
I made a collet to hold them in a 3 jaw set true chuck to eliminate having to indicate each face, it worked pretty well as it held the cubes within .001 on each position change.

Making a collet for that project is smart, would save you a lot of time.

I've been working on a two-cage turner's cube right for a while, but it gets too little attention while I handle all the paying work. Someday, if it all comes together, I'll have something to show here.

[garandman]

Originally Posted by Tweaker

A 3D printer would have whipped that right out.

We printed a model of six nested spheres.

We've made all sort of models of multiple parts that are built assembled, an example being an automotive dash vent. That's why I sometimes joke that 3D printers help engineers "Design even more stuff that can't be made!"

[jerdog53]

Originally Posted by garandman

That's why I sometimes joke that 3D printers help engineers "Design even more stuff that can't be made!"

[Crisis management]

Originally Posted by garandman

"Design even more stuff that can't be made!"

Know what you mean, I have a vivid memory of large, grubby, foundry foreman stomping into the design office clutching the smoking result of an automotive piston "first off" die casting... he wanted to know how he was supposed to remove the casting from the internal die pieces, something about not enough angle on the die components to allow disassembly. Oooops!

Stuffing it in the waste basket and setting fire to half the office tended to take the focus off my stuff up for a while.

[Cumminsman76]

At school we did the ball in the box on a CNC mill and had jaws that held the ball on the last side when it broke lose. I would have done one but was too busy making parts for a chopper shop to pay my way through.

[Juanjo_NY]

I really want to improve my grouping. So I build that! ;)

[MiteyF]

^^ That's not even SHOOTING anymore. It's like building a computer... **yawn**

Give me some iron sights and a steady hand thanks.

[Juanjo_NY]

Originally Posted by MiteyF

^^ That's not even SHOOTING anymore. It's like building a computer... **yawn**

Give me some iron sights and a steady hand thanks.

oh,I forgot to mention, I'm going to use it for a 3 inches target @ 200 yards.
You hit that with iron sights, I'm going to use my gun rest. ;)

[MiteyF]

Didn't say I could hit anything, just that it's not really that much FUN when you the steady hand out of the equation. It's like... rolling a bowling ball down a ramp at pins. No thanks.

[Juanjo_NY]

Originally Posted by MiteyF

Didn't say I could hit anything, just that it's not really that much FUN when you the steady hand out of the equation. It's like... rolling a bowling ball down a ramp at pins. No thanks.

when you hit something that you can't even see with your eyes is always fun.. at least for me!

I also enjoy iron sights, but as long as I can make the target more than 50% of the time.. ;)

PS.
a gun rest is also a very helpful tool to sight a scope.

[AK Oldman]

Originally Posted by Juanjo_NY

oh,I forgot to mention, I'm going to use it for a 3 inches target @ 200 yards.
You hit that with iron sights, I'm going to use my gun rest. ;)

3 inches at 200 yards with iron sights is very easy for a decent shooter. In NRA High Power competition the range goes out to 600 yards. In the National Matches at Camp Perry the long distance shoot is 1,000 yards. This is all with iron sights.

[josjor]

Originally Posted by AK Oldman

3 inches at 200 yards with iron sights is very easy for a decent shooter. In NRA High Power competition the range goes out to 600 yards. In the National Matches at Camp Perry the long distance shoot is 1,000 yards. This is all with iron sights.

I was going to add something like this, but didn't want to sound like a braggard. My favorite shooting is done at 200 yards with open sights on my 10/22 at a 3" square steel we have set up. No rest. I'd love to say that I nail it all the time, but I'm better than 50% in standing position, about 85% in prone.

I call it my poor mans 45/70 buffalo shoot.

[Juanjo_NY]

Congrats to all the sharp shooters here!
I'm not one, so my rest is going to be very helpful.

[Beemer Bob]

I like your rest and your choice of guns. I have 2, one in 22-250 and the other is 243.