4-8-0 Camelback Details

Lead Wheels, 3rd operation

It is going to be four operations to finish these wheels. Since I machined the radius on the back of the flange, there was not enough material to safely clamp on using the six jaw chuck, so I will have to finish the front on a face plate.

Clamped on the flange, start of operation no. 3

The front diameter started at 4.435 inches. I took it down to 3.800 in this operation. The wheels will finish at 3.750 inches. It looks like it would take forever to take off that much material, but with a sharp brazed carbide tool, I could take off .040 per pass. It only took about 15 minutes per wheel to make a big pile of chips!

Rough turned to 3.800 inches.

I drilled the center out to 5/8 inch.

Rough drilling the center.

Finally, I used a single point boring bar to finish the center hole at 0.6875 inches.

Boring the center hole.

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