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Milling on a mini lathe
stirling lad:
:mmmm? 500mg Naproxens,,,??
I'll need to get some of them so I can get Quixoticalled too!!! :med:
..Mike.
Fergus OMore:
Ah yes, Stirling Lad. Stirling? Got a date to see the Kelpies in Falkirk . Saw them from the road. Fantastic welding!
Heading for the Bhutt and Bhein a bit north of you. Pain killers and those new constant speed cameras on the A9 permitting!
Slange
Fergus OMore:
I'm trying to sort my library out. Really it is a rather large USB stick.
Came across a comment by someone who was born like me in 1930. Guy called Rex Tingey and he did construction notes on how to build a vertical slide - on a Unimat. Only needs scaling up a bit. It's still on the 'net as a freebie on the Unimat site.
Again, I was looking at my very dog eared copy of the Amateurs Lathe and there were construction notes for a fabricated 4 way tool holder. Can't be bad- it was from Lawrence Sparey! Again, I was recalling making a Stent in the Dark Ages. It's got a quite exotic vertical vertical slide but the feed screw is a bit of 3/8th BSF studding with 20 TPI and most people can do their 5 times table. Or could.
I made mine from a bit of marking out table- which cost 3 quid.
stirling lad:
the Kelpies are well worth a detour, but drive carefully its getting slippery up here now
Ian I found I could fasten down the minilathe vertical slide really quite solidly,, but i did,nt have much faith in the jaws as you dont have anything like the screw on a vice to apply pressure,, you just hold them against the work piece and tighten then back against the slide not the piece, so its only your hand pressure squeezing the jaws together against the work piece thats holding it there ,,, no doubt theres some other mystical dark force involved in holding it there too,, but you know what i mean,,,
...mike..
Fergus OMore:
Mike - Aberfoyle but not until Easter
cheers :beer::beer:
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