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madjackghengis:
Hi Stot, for a few years, I used my lathe exclusively in milling, not having a milling machine, so the problem of things moving after clamping down was a problem I had to solve. Putting a piece of paper between your angle plate and the cross slide will greatly solidify your setup, and by a factor of about ten, with regard to friction between the table and the angle plate. Regular notebook paper, typing paper or even just brown paper, such as from bags are best, no paper that is shiny and has pictures, and preferably no printing unless the paper is obviously very porous. I think you will find it makes all the difference in the world. It did for me. :headbang: mad jack

Divided he ad:
:lol: Arrows or "aarus" as it's mostly pronounced are darts as was worked out :beer: Just what we (the lads) have called 'em for years :)

Fetish for putting holes in things.... Like your lathe!! Sounds kinda drastic :bugeye: But then again we all modify things to suit our needs I suppose.... Just remember :worthless: :thumbup:

Nice tip from Mad Jack :thumbup: I'll remember that :)

Eric,

--- Quote ---I gotta finish mine mine someday.
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Yup :poke: (Sounds like the guls out of finding Nemo!! :lol: )

Looking forward to the rest.

Ralph.

Stot:
Good tip on the paper, ill give it a shot before i deface my lathe (further). :thumbup:

Yesterday I recieved a 6" x 1" piece of steel from College Engineering that is to become my base.

I had to get a 6" piece as it was the smallest they had over 4.5" :bugeye: Lots of metal to be removed here. Anyway I started off chucking it up and facing it off. Then center drilled it and drilled a 12mm hole straight through to get me started.

Then to remove over 1" of diameter. :( Thank god for Carbide tooling!

So now I had to bore out a seat for the turret to sit in. I took a couple of measurements, got it close then used the turret as a go/no go after each pass with my make shift boring tool. :borg:

Ive got to say an old slot mill makes and excellent boring tool if you have some spare or damaged. You can grind down the shorter flute tip and sharpen up the other one and use it for internal facing too. :borg: :dremel:

So anyway then I have my finished top surface. Tested with the turret and when seated it turns smoothly with no play. :clap:

I did turn it over to make a start on the base of the base. But its still not done... a LOT of metal to remove.. :lol:

Cheers
Stot

madjackghengis:
Hi Stot, kind of makes you wish for the laser cut off tool, that only uses twenty or thirty thousandths of metal for the cut, doesn't it? It looks like you're coming along fine, looking to see the finished project, and what it can do. :thumbup: mad jack

Stot:

--- Quote from: madjackghengis on May 20, 2010, 10:02:40 AM ---Hi Stot, kind of makes you wish for the laser cut off tool, that only uses twenty or thirty thousandths of metal for the cut, doesn't it?

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Ill keep an eye on ebay. :lol:

I did finish turning the base tonight.

Turned the base with a locating stub around the bolt hole so that it will fit right on my cross slide in place of the compound. I also used the tool tip to mark out the center points of my bolt holes while it was still chucked up. :dremel:

Worked a treat. :thumbup:

Now all thats left is millin' and drillin' :scratch: :bang:

Cheers
Stot

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