Lathe Face Plate

[sbwhart]

The face plate that came with my lathe is a huge 11" diameter, which is way too big for my needs, and the clampimg slots are to my mind not in a very convenient position.

Dave Bluechip gave us some 7" dia steel discs just the job for a face plate.

In my big for jaw chuck, face up, then bore for a nice neat fit on 72mm dia chuck register and a 20mm register for my rotary tabe, and tap the centre M10



Over onto the mill and using the PCD function drill and tap M8 for clamp screws.
No pics

But this is a pic of the back showing the registers along with a M2 morse taper with a 20mm dia at the end this will fit in the RT with the 20mm protruding out the face plate will fit on this and be clamped to the table with three m6 cap screws that will fit through the M8 threads drilled into the face plate.

Hope that made sence




Then back onto the lathe for facing up and skiming the OD and putting guide rings every 10mm I also took the oportunity to put a nice 60deg chamfer into the mouth of the centre thread so that I can use a centre in the mill to get it onto the quill centre line.

 

This is it on my RT, it converts My RT from a 5" to a 7" and I can now transfer the face plate from the lathe with the job still in place over to my RT without losing concentricity and having the pain of clocking things up




I can alos put it on my RT using my chuck Rt adaptor plate.



OR indexer



This is it with my big plate



I Havn't drilled the clamp holes in it yet as I want to get a Keats angle plate and a Myford style angle plate, and a want to get the holes positioned in the most convenient place.

Her it is with a small vice I want to be able to use on it and a small angle plate.





Have fun

Stew

[andyf]

Nice, Stew 
There was an article in MEW 157 (last November) showing a poor man's alternative to a Keats angle plate, but it would need slots in the faceplate to set it up.

I suppose you still need to use the big one on the lathe to drive a dog when turning between centres, so you can get fit a centre trough the hole - unless of course you drive the dog from a catchplate, or direct from the spindle flange.

Andy

[sbwhart]

Hi Andy

I drive the carrier from a dog bolted to the spindle flange like this.





Cheers

Stew

[Bernd]

Nice faceplate Stew.

I was going to ask how you are going to hold things down on it but you answered that question further down in your post.

Bernd

[trevoratxtal]

What a great topic with such good photos.
Yet another link for me to keep checking.
Many thanks
Trevor
 

[Stilldrillin]

Crisp, clear, well described, Stew...... 

Thank you! 

David D

[sbwhart]

Bernd/Trevor/David

Thanks for the positive feed back   

I'll finish off the clamping holes in the face plate in a few weeks time when I settle on the hole spacings when I get the kets angle plate.

Cheers and have fun

Stew