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Which machine annoys you most?
garym:
The magnetic stand that is used to support a DTI. It takes me a ridiculous amount of time to get the DTI positioned where it's needed. I know I'm only a newbie but unlike most things I've learned since starting this model engineering lark, it doesn't seem to get any quicker each time I use it. :bang:
Gary
RodW:
--- Quote from: garym on May 06, 2013, 04:09:30 AM ---The magnetic stand that is used to support a DTI. It takes me a ridiculous amount of time to get the DTI positioned where it's needed. I know I'm only a newbie but unlike most things I've learned since starting this model engineering lark, it doesn't seem to get any quicker each time I use it. :bang:
Gary
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Gary, I am just a noob too and initially had trouble with this too but assuming you are using it on a lathe, I found the best way was to set it up with the stand on the compound at the back of the work and the top arm at right angles pointing towards the chuck. You just need to chuck a piece up and wind the compound towards you until it touches the work. For my new lathe, I made a tool holder for it but have yet to use the 4 jaw chuck as the bigger 3 jaw does all the stuff I could not do before.
vtsteam:
--- Quote from: garym on May 06, 2013, 04:09:30 AM ---The magnetic stand that is used to support a DTI. It takes me a ridiculous amount of time to get the DTI positioned where it's needed. I know I'm only a newbie but unlike most things I've learned since starting this model engineering lark, it doesn't seem to get any quicker each time I use it. :bang:
Gary
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Oh yes, forgot about that one. Mine seems to have magnetized everything I own somehow, as well. Swarf sticks to whatever I don't want it on -- chuck keys, Allen wrenches, tapered centers, etc. It's the only thing magnetic in my shop, (or was) so I know what to blame!
I'm going to make a squared bar adapter to set a DTI in the tool holder, as shown in the post above, and banish magnets from the shop.
garym:
Hi Rod,
I was meaning more like truing a bore in a 4-jaw chuck something like this
http://www.mini-lathe.com/Measurement/Dial_indicators/DTI_centering_bolt_y.jpg
I hope links are allowed. Apologies if I've broken any rules.
Gary
matthew_g:
--- Quote from: dickda1 on April 29, 2011, 07:54:30 PM ---I painfully remember a machine that was fun to repair, but a pain in neck to use. :bang:
My shaper - although I should say my former shaper (7" Atlas) since I made repairs to it and sold it some years ago.
The mechanism that moved the ram and moved the table was fun to watch. Sort of like a Victorian magic box. But getting the slop out of the ram and the table required removing shims and re-scraping several cast iron surfaces. I re-machined the crank lever and made a new crank block out of wearite (aluminum bronze). Cutting keyways and dovetails worked, but setup was way too fussy. It was just overly complex compared to the modern milling machine and broach set that replaced this machine.
I was offered a Cincinnati Shaper (hydraulic drive) sitting in a field outside a machine shop about 25 years ago - free if I wanted to cart it off. In one of the few moments of clarity that I have had in this hobby, I respectfully declined.
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Your Mad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love both my shapers an 11" and a 24".
I use the pair of them on an almost daily basis, I have a horizontal and a turret mill as well. But there are so many things that shapers are much better suited to.
Matt
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