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| NickG:
Don't you need to slacken the nut to operate the cam or does the nut clamp the tool post down without affecting the cam? I know you always have the post clocked square due to the tooling you use. Nick |
| bogstandard:
Nick, The nut just locks the main block down solid, the handle still rotates allowing tool changes. I suppose if I used a lot more HSS that hadn't been ground up to quite the right angles, then slackening off to get them something like would be advantageous, but as you stated Nick, I always have my block square most of the time, as I grind up my own HSS tooling on the surface grinder, and the angles are correct. The same as tipped tooling, that is designed to be fed at the correct angle when the toolpost is set square. I think it is just quirky me, I like everything running perfectly parallel and square, unlike my own mentor, who swings the thing on all points of the compass, but he is rough a**sed, I have even seen him hand grind up an old HT bolt for doing a quickie boring bar on a piece of ali, and it worked a treat. If that was me, it would have bent like a banana on the first cut. I suppose it wouldn't be right if we all did things the same way. John |
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