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Offline Stilldrillin

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Small M2 Running Centre.
« on: May 21, 2009, 01:08:58 PM »

After admiring Stew`s handiwork, today I made a small running centre for my 7x20 Mini Lathe.....  :wave:

Whatever I`ve missed here, please refer to Stew`s posting........  :thumbup:


The centre & MT2 blank to suit my smaller tailstock.





Blank mounted in MT3 sleeve in headstock. Remembering to insert a piece of 10mm screw into the blank`s thread, for stripdown.
Roughing began....... At .010" per pass.....  ::)





A little hard at the taper end.





Found a nice new "10mm" reamer.





A little swarfe clearing problem. (No problem).





This is not a good time to realise you do not own a drift.......  :bang:





I then realised the reamer is a few microns undersize, so I polished the centre shank to a lovely "pop" fit.

This caused an airlock with the loctite...... Had to file a flat to allow the air out!

Just needs the taper shortening for the little tailstock, after the loctite has cured.





The centre is 23mm o/d, the tailstock ram is 22mm........ Now that`s close enough for me!  :thumbup:





Thanks Stew! Yer a gem......  :headbang:

David D
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Re: Small M2 Running Centre.
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 01:32:56 PM »
Nicely done David

It makes a lovely neat centre, I see you ran up against some tuff stuff as well when turning blank down, its not to bad but it does make the old machine groan.

Cheers

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Re: Small M2 Running Centre.
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 06:19:05 PM »
You guys are making everything look soooooooooooooo easy  :headbang:   ............. plus adding greatly to my "To Do" List 

Ta chaps :beer:

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Re: Small M2 Running Centre.
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2009, 04:13:39 AM »
Don't forget to buy some of these.




Not worth messing about for a quid.

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/New-Products/Chucks-Backplates

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Re: Small M2 Running Centre.
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2009, 04:54:16 AM »
Those screw in tangs are great John.

I bought a handful of them when I modded my tailstock. They are worth it at double the price.



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Re: Small M2 Running Centre.
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2009, 07:41:50 AM »
Thanks John, one of those will tidy the job nicely.......  :thumbup:
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