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| John Rudd:
I'm just finishing off a small 3 inch (well it started out as a piece of 3in dia bar :doh: ) rotary table for machining raduissed ends on conrods and the like.... I've made some Tee nuts from 1/2 in bar tapped to take an M5 thread ( nothing like mixing units :clap: ) the job I'm left with is making sure they are all the same length....They are too small to be held in the vice, they cant be clamped to the mill table because they are too small again.... I need some lateral thinking gents... So any offers of advice on how to machine them so they are all the same? |
| Darren:
Screw them down to a flat sacrificial bar .... first drilled with a line of holes of course. |
| Jasonb:
Can't see why they are too small to fit in the vice? I was machining a 1/16" square onto a 3/4" length of 3/32 rod yesterday and that was easy enough to hold. Then I cross drilled some 3/8 long 3/32 pins to take 1/32 split pins again fitted in the vice OK Jason |
| John Rudd:
--- Quote from: Darren on March 08, 2010, 12:49:35 PM ---Screw them down to a flat sacrificial bar .... first drilled with a line of holes of course. --- End quote --- Yeah I thought of that, was hoping for an easier way out... (I'm getting lazy.... :borg: ) |
| AdeV:
Can you rest a whole bunch of them on a parallel in the vice, on their ends, then mill them all to the same height at the same time? The threaded portion may end up slightly off-centre, but is that particularly important on a T-nut? |
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