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Milling Plate for a Sherline

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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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