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| Brass_Machine:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on November 15, 2008, 12:38:30 AM ---... The other way is to see if one of our colonial cousins will purchase and send you a piece. It seems to be very cheap in the US (as is almost everything). The exchange rate isn't in our favour at the moment, but it just might be a much cheaper and easier option. John --- End quote --- Darren, I have done favors like that in the past for a few people in England and Australia. If you need the assistance, let me know. Eric |
| Darren:
Thanks Eric, I'll post any results here and let you know how I get on. Apreciate the offer, Darren |
| Divided he ad:
Erm.... I don't know if anyone told you this early in your life Darren.... But it's kinda hard work to "generate a Ralph!!!!" ;D 8) ;) Oh well it made me laugh!! :thumbup: So, a jenny ehh! How's that going to come from 2 interlocking discs then?? I will watch intently ;D Ralph. |
| Darren:
I'm teasing you Ralph, It's, or going to be, a ball generator ;D ;D ;D |
| Darren:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on November 14, 2008, 07:41:15 AM ---Darren, Usually the topslide and crosslide use left hand threads, so you would need to take them out to check. Also you would need to find the pitch, otherwise your handle scales wouldn't tally to the movement obtained. John --- End quote --- I've been thinking about this John. If the thread is 10TPI that's one 10 turns to the inch, one turn 10th of an inch, The handle scales are divided into 100 so 1thou per div. But with 100 divs on the scale this could leave us with a good option to convert to metric could it not? Say a screw pitch of 2mm, one turn would be 2mm, each div would be 100th of 2mm or 0.002mm. Um maybe not so clever. 1mm pitch would work out well, but prob not enough meat on the threads. I'll think some more Darren Edit, the mini lathe uses 1mm pitch, Am I off track here or could this be done? I'm also wondering if this could also be cut on the mini lathe. Another little project for me maybe. |
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