Confession time


Our lathe at work is pretty ropey and to turn the stub axles would have taken an age, so I got a guy up the road to turn them on a CNC lathe for a bit of cash in hand.


Results of the cheating are back.





I now need to cut the splines using a dividing head on a milling machine, problem being our best dividing head is too small to hold the flange on the stub axle.


Round the back of the big surface grinder was a bigger one that has been left there for at east 20 years untouched !


Dragged it out for a look.





After a fair bit of time cleaning and oiling.





Not got any further than that with stub axles as was skimming the rust off drive shafts on lathe at the same time.








Also got my bits back from anodisers, unfortunately the weld shows on the diff cover and I'm going to try and find an oil fill sticker to hide it up.





Anyone know where I can get custom high temperature stickers made ?


I want one that follows the curve of the radius on the oil fill hole...