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| tom osselton:
Yep watch them toes! |
| shipto:
I do wear steel toecap boots but I doubt they would have helped the rest of my foot. Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk |
| vtsteam:
Back for a visit, and a great project. I keep skipping over theory and advice posts, Dwayne, to settle on the best part of a build, the build itself! Keep on truckin' buddy, yer doin' great! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: |
| shipto:
Thanks Vtsteam This project is going to take a little detour now in terms of the column, up until I got my Harrison I was using a past its best Drummond round bed with a broken head casting, this has been stuck under the bench slowly getting covered in various bit and pieces. While sat in shed talking to my mate about the problems with the knee slide and how I was going to have to get something rigged up to sort them out properly it suddenly came to mind. So I dragged it out and we sat there some more making plans and it is going to be used for the time being, this way I will have a milling machine hopefully capable of allowing me to make the origional design much better. |
| shipto:
It almost feels like I should be showing this on a new thread but I guess I can get away with it. So a bit of 76X38 channel is a good size to sit across the round bed from the Drummond, the main thing about this detour is to not damage the Drummond bed as I have other plans for it. I welded four bolts to the sides of the channel and cut some bit to clamp the channel, on the bottom clamp is a piece which will make sure the bed will not break under stress and also ensure the head will not move. Next I bolted the head slide onto the 76X38 channel (which I didnt take a pic of) and fitted the head so as you can see I am still going to have both the head and the knee moveable. |
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