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| sportandmiah:
I'm making a tooling plate for my Sherline lathe with optional milling attachment. Is there a standard in regards to the tapped hole spacing? How far should they be spaced from each other? |
| Bernd:
Hi Sport Here's a pic of a tooling plate I made for my Sherline. It's 3" X 6" and has 1/4-20 holes spaced on 1/2" centers. You can make any hole spacing to fit your needs. There is no standard. A tooling plate is just that. You make holes in it to fit your needs. Hope this helped. :beer: Bernd |
| Dean W:
Bernd shows a good example of how to do it, Sport. You can start out with any spacing you find convenient and since it's a tooling plate, you can put more holes in whenever you like. I think you'll like having one of these plates. I have one on my Taig mill, and have found I don't want to be without it now. Nice bit of extra protection for your mill table, too. Be sure to pick a thread size for the holes that compliments your existing tooling. Have fun! Dean |
| Brass_Machine:
Here is a how to for a Chinese mini mill (x2). Not quite the same, but it can give you some ideas for building one for your machine. link HERE Eric |
| sportandmiah:
Thank you gentleman, great info! :thumbup: |
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