Member postings for Mark Elen 1

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the welcome. 👍

I've been undecided how to approach this riser casting, as the sides are not square, in that they slope towards the bottom, it makes holding them in the vice a no go. I've formulated the plan to make a plate and thread it and use the plate to clamp in the vice. Now that I've skimmed the bottom, I've made the countersinks 1mm too deep, I'm planning to fly cut the top then I can machine out the underside for the vice nuts to slide along, using the same plate.

We will see how this pans out. I'm enjoying the learning process.

Cheers

Mark

Hello all,

I'm new to the forum, but have been watching for quite a while whilst deciding if to take the plunge and tool up for a while.

What caught my interest was the 'clickspring' series of videos on YouTube, and whilst I'm not really interested in clocks much, I found the making of your own tools fascinating.

Having decided to have a go, I've bought myself a mill first. One of the reasons is because this is the bit of kit that I've never used (used a lathe at school back in the 80s) the other reason is because I want to get some practice with it, before purchasing a lathe.

Having purchased the mill, and a DRO kit, the first project was a set of brackets for the DRO. I've done the X and Y axis, but I got held up over Christmas waiting for some m4 X 60 screws for the Z axis.

As I'd bought the Hemingway kit before Christmas, I thought I would make a start on the milling tasks, starting with the vice.

A few photos of progress so far:

I also made up some clamp plates to mount the vice riser to the table, so I could skim off the bottom of the casting:

Cheers

Mark

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 07/01/2018 21:28:29