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| websterz:
--- Quote from: chuck foster on January 17, 2010, 07:51:56 PM ---great looking QCTP :thumbup: :thumbup: i have thought about making one but thought it would be next to impossible........................but you have give me the incentive to give it a try :dremel: so i might be bugging you with some questions :) :) chuck :wave: --- End quote --- Chuck, this thing was easy as can be. Really, there's NO reason why you can't build it! I just placed an order for all the stuff I need to do hot bluing in my shop. I can't wait to start finishing everything in the shop a glossy black!! :dremel: Fire away with the questions...I'm ready! |
| ksor:
Hi Really nice peace of work ! |
| websterz:
--- Quote from: ksor on January 18, 2010, 04:09:11 AM ---Hi Really nice peace of work ! --- End quote --- Thanks ksor! Here's a pic of my morning project. Making toolholders is addictive! :dremel: I would have kept going but I ran out of 3/4" brass for the height adjusting nuts and had to order some more. I have 3 more feet of material set aside for making holders. That will give me a total of 21 assorted tool holders that fit this post. I plan to cut the dovetail and drill/tap the adjusting screw hole and leave them like that for future use. It will be nice to have blanks on hand for those odd jobs that need a special tool. |
| Bernd:
I was going to send you my address and ask if you'd donate the un-used ones to me but I guess not, huh? :lol: Nice job. Bernd |
| websterz:
I finally got out to the shop today and made the new pistons for my QCTP. The 1/2" round ones didn't have enough surface area and the toolholders tended to cant to one side or the other depending on how high the holder sat on the post. Here is a new piston next to the old one: The rectangular ones are 1" x 1/2" and contact the full height of the toolholder preventing tilt. I will get pics of the post in situ tomorrow (if I get any shop time in). The biggest advantage to making the post and holders, aside from the cost of commercially made ones, is that I can tailor each holder to sit halfway down the side of the toolpost when the cutter is on center. This way I can maintain full contact with the pistons at all times which makes things much more rigid. I also took my old 2 piece plinth off and replaced it with a shorter, solid steel version. That got the toolpost down to a more workable height and reduced chatter considerably. A couple of packages arrived in the mail today. One was a handful of 2 inch long 3/8-16 cap screws, one of which now secures the post to the lathe. The other was a foot long piece of 3/4" brass. Now I can make more height adjusters and finish cutting my spare toolholders. :dremel: |
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