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Did you look at the link I posted at 9:47 on the 8th? (Mod edit the 4th)

Edited By JasonB on 11/08/2021 18:10:13

How about a jeweller's piercing saw?

Fascinating, thanks Michael.

These were done with my clamp-type tool. Examples in aluminium, brass, MS, SS. and silver steel.

Edited By Gary Wooding on 07/08/2021 14:44:29

I reckon that the purpose of the angle-iron is to securely clamp the workpiece, but you are using it as a bend stop. I suggest to reverse the angle-iron and machine a bevel on the edge close to the bending point. Then make a separate stop to limit the bend amount.

THIS is a link to a PDF of one I designed and made many years ago. I also designed and 3D printed a storage box for it and some additional knurls.

d/1HPVUl_xO_bRdRcHFAGKrxybH_YvmMAm3/view?usp=sharing >**LINK**

I would think that you've overfilled the quill if there's a leak around the dome nut. The quill is the oil reservoir, or have I miss-understood it or all these years? .

I fitted a 3-axis DRO to my 2B and then added a DRO scale for the quill, which is surprisingly useful. As per SOD, I use an edge finder and work from an edge or a centre point (easy to find with a DRO). All my drawings are dimensioned accordingly - I never have use scribe lines or a centre-punch.

For the Mk3 VH there is a small grub screw, just behind the quill lock handle, that pokes into a slot that limits the quill vertical movement. The nut on the front of the VH does nothing on my VH.

The gib locking screws are 1/4 BSF

The half-nut may be worn so that small side pressure pops it open. I notice that you still have the rapid return spider, so you probably want to use the half-nut properly. I removed mine and keep the half-nut permanently closed.

A slight mod I made to my Centec was to the Y-axis gib-locking screw. It's a long Imperial threaded socket head screw which I found tedious to use. The Allen key kept falling out and I didn't have the wherewith all to make a custom version, so I made an extension from a piece of aluminium that's a press-fit into the socket head.

It works for me and encourages me to lock the Y-axis more often.

On my VH the nut screws onto a pin which is inserted from inside the VH, so don't push it in unless you want to dismantle it. It's not connected to anything inside and doesn't act as a stop for the quill. I used it as a convenient method of attaching an external stop block when I made an adjustable quill stop.

I've been using F360 for about 3 years now and I'm reasonably satisfied with the performance on my elderly Win10 Home system using a Core i5-4460 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 705, 12GB RAM, and an SSD. But when I watch videos by people like Brad Tallis etc, their systems seem rather smoother than mine, especially when demonstrating things like moving sketch items etc. I'm considering an upgrade to my system, but have limited funds. Any recommendations please?

In that case - problem solved. I've learnt something.

Thanks for letting me know.

PS. I don't know why it should take a long time to download, it's only 85KB.

I think I've cracked it. When I created the original post I inserted the link into the popup window when I clicked the Link (Ctl+K) icon. That was it - nothing else. After the reported failures I sent the link in an email to my wife. When I inserted it into the email, a window popped up asking who should be allowed to share the link - I clicked the 'Anyone with the link' option. My wife then opened link with no problem. When I copied the link into the Ctl+K window, no such window popped up. I reckon it should work now - am I right?

I don't know why it's not working. It says that anyone with the link can read the file, and I can't see any other controls I could use.

Any ideas?

Is it working now?

Sorry folks, I tried it again, here's the evidence....

Sorry Bill,

I thought I'd granted access to everyone, but clearly hadn't. It should be OK now.

THIS is a PDF of a chart I constructed years ago. I printed and laminated it on A4 sheet. It's my go-to source for drills/taps and conversions.