Martin Cargill | 28/03/2023 19:33:26 |
203 forum posts | I have a Tiplap grinder. These machines are (or so I thought) just for dressing lathe tools. I have modified mine by mounting the motor further back and making square and hexagonal blocks housing a MT3 sleeve inside to allow me to hold and grind mills and drills. The MT3 sleeve also allows me to hold a drill chuck and my ER32 chuck to hold parallel shank tooling up to 20mm thus allowing me to sharpen most of my tooling. Browsing the web today (because I have Covid and I'm bored) I found some pictures of the same grinding machines but they were being used for dressing the end of milling cutters using a simple indexing pin/disc setup. This setup uses the hole through the head of the machine to hold a simple spindle/chuck arrangement. I would like to make something similar for my machine but before I do does anyone have a Tiplap with this same feature. I can obviously simply design and build one myself from scratch, but its got to be worth looking at what the manufacturer built first. One of the tools I would like to be able to sharpen is a seven flute Rotabroach cutter and an indexing disc would make this possible.
Martin
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bernard towers | 28/03/2023 23:19:32 |
1221 forum posts 161 photos | For your indexing could you not use a finger a la clarkson? |
Howard Lewis | 29/03/2023 21:46:02 |
7227 forum posts 21 photos | Some ti long time ago, there was an article on modifying a Tiplap into a cutter grinder. Might be worth looking for it? howard |
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