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Hard to hold.....
efrench:
I'd just 3d print a new one :)
vtsteam:
--- Quote from: RussellT on December 23, 2020, 05:43:41 AM ---Clamp it to a faceplate?
Russell
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Brass_Machine:
You could even 3D print the spacers for between the jaws and pulley....
AdeV:
--- Quote from: Muzzerboy on December 23, 2020, 04:31:41 AM ---Sounds as if you need to get yourself 3 and 4 jaw chucks - what more excuse do you need!!
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Haha - I do have a 3-jaw and a 4-jaw. The 4-jaw is OK, but the 3-jaw is knackered... Next year, I'll buy a new Chinesium one, I think. I literally just got the 6 jaw fitted to the lathe a couple of weeks ago, I have no intention of removing it yet! Mainly because, on my lathe, changing chucks is (to quote lathes.co.uk) a "slow and tedious business". They're not wrong!
--- Quote from: Muzzerboy on December 23, 2020, 04:31:41 AM ---As it sounds as if you are not bothered about getting it dialled in deadly accurate, it would take no time at all to fling this in a chuck with 3 slugs of strip or bar and let rip. You don't even need 6 pieces with a 6 jaw chuck - 3 would do. Presumably you'd have to bugger about with clamps and packing to get the pulley set up on your mill. Six, two threes and half a dozen!
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Indeed - "dead nuts" is not a requirement, the belt will simply be driving a mechanism that has to go round & round, it's not like it has to be super-mega-absolutely-accurate... That said...
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on December 23, 2020, 11:37:10 PM ---You could even 3D print the spacers for between the jaws and pulley....
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Dang it, why didn't I think of that!? I've even got 2 3D printers right here at the workshop....
However, as I've promised I'd do it today, and the "good" printer is already doing a long job that won't finish until late o'clock tonight.... futz it, I'm going with the mill option.
--- Quote from: efrench on December 23, 2020, 09:49:29 PM ---I'd just 3d print a new one :)
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An interesting proposal, but it'd take me longer to CAD it, than to machine the existing one. Of course, if I balls it up.... different matter!
vtsteam:
Just one more side note. A faceplate doesn't have to be an "official" faceplate. It can just be a disk held in a chuck. Either indicate the face true, or face it true. Drill holes where needed for bolts or toe clamps as needed. Tap if helpful. Sacrificial after a bunch of uses. Handy to have around. Doesn't even have to be round if you have a 4-jaw.
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