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| saw:
I have to ask you Keats angle plate what is that??? :zap: |
| klank:
Benni A Keats angle plate is a sort of cross between a V block and angle plate. The "angle plate" part, can mount to the face plate through slots in its flange, but instead of a straight edge across the bottom, it has a deeply machined ninety degree V cut out at ninety degrees to the plane of the face plate. Another ninety degree V machined plate bolts up to this leaving a sort of adjustable "square" shaped hole as a variable clamp - its pretty well shown in the third photo of this post. The flange and bolts holding the angle plate to the lathe face plate are hidden behind the bigger V and cylinder casting. The lower V plate and its securing bolts are quite clear. I think Boggy did a write up of how to build one on MM a while ago? I hope this explains. Peter |
| sbwhart:
Nice bit of maching their Peter. :headbang: Those blow holes are nothing to worry about, they look to be well away from anything inportant. Benni This is Bogs write up on the Keats http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=1271.0 And this is how I made my own not the best looker in the tool box but it does the job. http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=3428.0 Cheers Strew |
| klank:
Thats some nice tooling Stew, Thanks for showing how it should be done! Peter |
| NickG:
Peter, I was maybe a bit hasty in my judgement sorry if I came across in a bad way and I don't have much experience working with castings, you probably have more. I was just the close up pics of the bearings that got me, I just thought what use is that shape ... then I scrolled down and saw you had machined it all over, which I think looks great but possibly defeats the point of having a casting slightly? I know what you mean by the temptation to make it all shiny though! As you say though, as long as you can get the required dimensions out of them and they are reasonably true / free from blow holes then maybe that's a more important measure of the quality. I see you've found a few on the cylinder but as Stew says, at least those ones won't be affecting anything. Great work. Nick |
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