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| Stot:
Hi, Well the waiting for most of my materials is over so I set about the first part of making my ball turner. Its based on the Steve Bedair site design and resized to work on my Warco BH600 with an overall center height from the cross slide of 86.6mm. First up was the turret, then ill make the base to fit. Started off with a 2" piece of ~80mm steel round bar. I chucked it up with the squarest face to the chuck and faced off the other face, which was about 1-2 degrees out of square. Took a while at at 420fps... :lol: I decided to maching the entire base first, and then flip it over and clean up the top and sides. I drilled and tapped the base before flipping it over too to keep it all central to the base. Its basic turning really but I ended up with a base I was happy with. I flipped it round in the chuck holding it by the turned outer part and faced then center drilled the other end. Then re-chucked it on the larger base step with a live center in the tailstock and turned the full sides and face to dimention. So the turret Is ready for some milling. I still need to get a nice rigid milling slide set up on my lathe before I do that part, but hopefully I will be able to machine the base in the next few days. :thumbup: Cheers Stot |
| madjackghengis:
Hi Stot, looks like you've got a good start, looking forward to seeing you mill on your lathe, haven't seen that much lately, but having done lots of it when I didn't have a mill, I really appreciate being able to. :thumbup: :clap: mad jack |
| Divided he ad:
Looking good Stot :thumbup: I like the way the curls of swarf spring off in the vid' . I see you also like arrows and air hockey :) Reflective surface with evenly spaced holes and a centre dot :borg: :lol: Looking forward to the vertical slide bit, I couldn't do it on the one I had at all :bang: Ralph. |
| Brass_Machine:
Nice start Stot! :thumbup: I gotta finish mine mine someday. I see what Ralph is on about... took me a minute with the arrows comment. :scratch: Eric |
| Stot:
Cheers guys, Sharp eyes spotting the dart board. :lol: I also shoot my rifles and pistols from there too. Never really thought about my fetish about putting holes in things. :bugeye: I have a couple of angle plates for the cross slide on my lathe, but one problem is my T slots run along the Z axis of the lathe, so getting it tight enough not to move during a milling operation is tricky. :scratch: Im 1/2 contemplating drilling through the angle plate base into the cross slide and taping it accept it. Would be the best fitting option if I can get it square... :zap: Cheers Stot |
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