FILENAMES: Shaping_Ammco_cutting_link.jpg Shaping_Between centres_shoulder.jpg Shaping_between_centres.jpg Shaping_bewtween_centres_cutting_flat.jpg Shaping_Curve_cutter_outside.jpg Shaping_Curve_cutting_inside.jpg Shaping_Cutting_lump_of_steel.jpg Shaping_First_cut_on_launch_engine.jpg Shaping_lammas_cutting_side.jpg Shaping_lammas_cutting_slot.jpg Shaping_Truing_jaw.jpg Shaping_vice_jaw_cutting_slot.jpg Shaping_vice_jaw_roughing_out.jpg Shaping-vice_jaw_cutting_dovetail.jpg DESCRIPTION: These are pictures showing parts being made on a shaper. Posted by John Olsen . The following description was provided: ================================================================= Notes on Shaping Pictures These are being posted here at the request of some members of the Yahoo shaper group, I hope they will be of general interest to members of the metal working group too. Shapers are no longer in fashion for commercial use, but the low cost of tooling makes Ammco Cutting Link. A brass link for a Rider_Ericsson Hot air engine. The spots are blowholes. Note the small flats on each side to give the vice a smooth area to grip on. The ends were well over size so this gets filed down later using a button. Curve cutter outside. This magic arrangement allows cutting large radius curves on a shaper. The one shown will do from about 7.5 inches to infinity. The job is mounted on an extra table which pivots at one side, and is guided by the angled bar across the Curve cutter inside. Same as above but cutting the slot. By the way, that is gauge plate so it is quite tough. The finish is excellent. Cutting lump of steel. Just a plain cut, I can't even remember what this was for. Maybe it was a trial when I first got that machine about a year and a half back. First cut on launch engine. This was the first cut taken on any of the casting for my launch engine...by the time they arrived I had done quite a lot of small parts, including the link seen earlier. This was a big job for the Alba 1A, my new 4S would make Lammas cutting side. Making a Lammas toolpost for a Unimat lathe. The post is a triangle with the corners cut off at right angles to one side. The Lammas toolpost is a three sided variation on the usual four way, and the tools don't tend to get in the way Lammas cutting slot. Same as above, cutting the slot for the tool. Between centres shoulder. Shaping between centres lets you cut gears, but you can do other shapes as well. This is for the eccentric straps for my launch engine. It was cut to the outline then sliced into four. The shape includes a round part and the flat Shaping between centres. The basic apparatus, a Vertex dividing head and a slab of bar to mount it on the shaper. The bar now has a groove to align the dividing head. Shaping between centres cutting flat. Starting the work on the eccentric strap. Trueing jaw. One of my vice jaws was out by about three thou over the height, so I trued it like this. The important part was setting up the downfeed to be spot on since the degrees scale is not enough for a job like this. A square and a dial gauge were u Vice jaw cutting dovetail. I had a large base for a vice, just the slideways and the top part of the swivel base with a substantial screw. I made the rest. This is cutting the dovetail, the other two pictures show the preparations. One advantage of the sh Vice jaw cutting slot. A narrow slot has been cut with a parting blade and now it is being opened out with a roughing tool. Vice jaw roughing out.