Member postings for mechman48

+1.. me too ! last Harrogate exhibition.

George

Why not attach it at the top of your mill head, then you have the readout directly in front of you & away from swarf/oil/ ingress, the magnets should hold it securely enough & the cable is long enough?.

George.

I have done the similar adaptation for my lathe tailstock & cross slide readings; work just fine for the cost of these, apart from buying Neodymininimuummmm magnets .

George.

Make sure you have the drill vice fastened securely as the modified drill bit WILL grab & try to throw your vice across the workshop due to no chisel point on the tip.

Phil, your link works fine. exactly what I was asking about.

George

I'm putting one of these LCD DRO's on my Xmas list, Has anyone fitted one of these & are they better/worse than digital readout. Looking on youtube these have a graphical display for its functions so you can see where the cutter/drill is rather than setting to zero & inputting digital figures.

George

Edited By JasonB on 12/03/2021 20:01:53

I normally wear slippers in the house but I use a pair of 'Crocs' to go to the garage/man cave then I swap them for a pair of safety trainers, I also put on a pair of cargo pants over my 'joggers' plus donning a warehouse / lab coat with the sleeves rolled up. as for the swarf issue my soluton was to use a piece of formed acrylic to use as a guard..

..Yes, I've already had the 'fish tank' comments, but it does the job.

George.

Started on my next project; Scotch yoke engine designed by Bob Middleton..

George.

Made a start on my next project; Scotch yoke engine designed by Bob Middleton..

George.

Hi Jim

What scale is your figure?

George.

I have a WM16 mill ( 2012 ) & use a ER25 collet set in it. I also have a MT4 collet holder for the headstock of my WM250 V-F lathe, I have both Stevenson square & hex collet blocks, I'm one of those 'nice to have it 'guys; & have the hex block semi permanently mounted in my 3 jaw chuck, does all I need it to.

George.

Dependent on dia' ensure that the ends have a suitable chamfer to enable good filling of joint, e.g. vee or 'J' joint, as in stick welding. In the past I've also used Duncans method, plus using epoxy resin, two part metal filler, whatever is to hand that will give a strong enoigh joint. Where needs must I s'pose.

George.

The simplest method works best, have a look at...

4mm Diameter Solid Delrin Polyoxymethylene (POM) / Celcon Plastic Balls Simply Bearings Ltd..

work on the acronym 'KISS' . Sometimes projects are over engineered where 'simples is as simples does' to closely paraphrase a line from a well known movie.

George.

It was made to the drawing supplied with kit & as I recall it was 7*. It may not look it on the pic but it was propped up at the rear so there's probably some parallax error in there... .

George.

I made mine from the Hemmingway kit; one side has an angled slot , but I found that this created too much overhang & altering it moved the centre height out of position so I used the horizontal slotted side with a different holder which allows me to alter the over hang without losing centre height..

Leaving the centre height as shown produces too much over hang..

George.

Yesterday & today. Have had a lot of back lash on my WM16 mill fine feed worm drive since day one ( 2012 ) but lived with it since. I decided to sort it as best with out removing the whole worm drive; it measured up at nearly 1.2 mm before the drive engaged ,yeah I know more than excessive. I made up a brass washer to take up as much slack as I figured .041" ~ 1 mm & fitted that, back lash is now down to ~ .4 mm so decided to leave it at that... for now!

Also decided to remake the cover for my X drive motor from a near colour match 3mm plastic sheet; heat gun bent to shape, replaced a PWM with a new unit that has a on-off-on switch & fitted a numbered dial, looks much better than the original stainless steel version, Original pics in album 'X' drive..

Fine feed washer...

Only small stuff but off the Tduit list.

George.

Stuart Models are ideal.

George

Do you mean plumbers hemp; usually used in conjunction with ' Boss white' sealant, IIRC more for cast iron or galvanized fittings.

Here's my solution..

Just a slot in shelf bracket screwed horizontally to the back shelf.

George.

Bo'sun...'Just wish they did one with larger stock holding capacity up to around 30mm dia'.

Could you possibly machine the 'V' to accommodate your larger size 24 - 30 mm is a 3 mm face cut ea. side of the vee ? looking at the Arc page it looks as though there's just enough material left on ea face to do it.

George.