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| Rob.Wilson:
Looking great Darren :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Thanks for the mention Thats a good setup for drilling and reaming . Cheers Rob |
| Raggle:
--- Quote ---Another tick is to cut the slot deeper, by that I mean slot the other side of the hole if the saw can reach that far. Bernd --- End quote --- That is the best plan and I've needed to do it to the milling column adaptor on my cast iron Unimat SL (and it still needs to go deeper) An alternative if the saw won't reach would be to shave the block on the face opposite the slit or mill a slot down the middle of that side, just enough to weaken it. Old BMC Minis had a pair of ball and socket transfer levers for the gearshift. Mine stripped one Sunday (work next day) - took 2 hacksaw blades in the frame to get that to tighten, and they were splined shafts. Just too much metal opposite the slit. Ray |
| Darren:
Thanks for the suggestions, alas the slitting saw wouldn't go deep enough. What I did do was to machine the sides down somewhat and this seems to have done the trick :ddb: I also upped the screw threads to 6mm. I ground the wrong end of a blunt 6mm milling cutter to make a tip. Ground square it can be twisted in the bar to give some relief. I'm assuming as this was a milling cutter that once thrust its fine delicate teeth through steel then it will have no trouble acting as a shaping tip. All that's needed now is to weld the two bits together and shorten the milling cutter and we should be good to go ... hopefully :) |
| RichardShute:
Good evening Gents, Long-time lurker briefly de-lurking.... Whilst I can see some logic in cutting a slot on the return stroke as mentioned, there is no way to lock the clapper box on my Elliot10M and I have found no other reference or comment that cutting on the return stroke is _the_ correct way other than the comment in the related thread here. Are there any other references or information on how to lock the clapper box? I'd have expected a machine of that calibre to have a pin or other intended way to do it if that was an expected MO. Richard </delurk> |
| Bernd:
Hi Richard, welcome to the collective, as we like to call it. :borg: Ah Darren. Don't you think you should cut off the flutes on that milling cutter before you try to cut a slot? :lol: :lol: Sorry couldn't resist. Bernd |
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