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| Brass_Machine:
Good reading. Even I am able to understand what your are explaining. Thanks! Eric |
| Bogstandard:
I'm glad you lads are able to understand it as I go along. I was hoping for that to happen, as it will mean I won't need as many pictures. I can just describe it in a few words and you will remember what was done from before. Another evening only post maybe today, if at all. John |
| shoey51:
Thanks John that was very informative i think im beginning to understand :scratch: cheers Graham |
| NickG:
John, your preperation and the DRO made short work of that base! I guess it just takes a bit more concentration if you've got manual dials but I know my dials aren't accurate so I'd have to mess on marking things up some how. NIck |
| Bogstandard:
Nick, It is a shame that everyone doesn't have DRO's, I am lucky on that score. But even so, I used to do a lot of my casting work on a basic imperial mill/drill with real 'iffy' backlash problems (almost a full half turn), before I fitted scales to it, and I used to use the same methods then, purely by zeroing up the handles when the datum was hit, and working from them. I found that it was accurate enough to get all the holes in the correct relationship to each other, as long as you crept up on the setting and hit it spot on. If you went past, you would then have to start from the datum again, just to make sure the backlash was taken out. Been there, got the t-shirt AND the baseball cap. You have to work with what you have, and make the very best of it. John |
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