Lots of it, in fact. I’ve been lathing away following Dan‘s suggestion on my post yesterday about how to resolve the issue about welding the super-thin sleeve into the bearing housing on the wishbone. His suggestion, which is pretty obvious in retrospect, like all the best ideas, is to leave a flange on the end of the sleeve that’s sturdy enough to be able to weld it to the housing. The only issue with this that I can think of is that machining the sleeve to exactly the right length is going to need lots of assembling and disassembling, but that’s no great deal really.
So, I’ve been carrying on with the lathe turning down the components I made yesterday. So far I’ve got what’s in the photo above which are two bearing housings (on the left of the photo, one with a spherical bearing in it) to weld in one end of the bearing housing and, on the right, a sleeve to butt up against the circlip with a flange left on the end for welding. That’s the part that will need machining down in a while. I now need to make another one of the parts on the right, which will involve taking another lump of solid steel and turning it into a pile of swarf, like the one shown in the next photograph. It took up a lot less space when it was all a solid lump…