Camlock D1-4 Adapter plate

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DaveH:
John S and Dave,
Ok I'm with it - I just need to give it a go :D

Thanks for your input and guidance much appreciated :clap:
:beer:
DaveH

Pete.:
I'm planning to make a D1-3 adapter for my dividing head and another to mount chucks to my mill. What I plan to do is use a dial gauge to set the compound at the correct angle by clocking off the lathe spindle taper. Does anyone see any potential problem with that?

DaveH:
Pete,

--- Quote from: Pete. on June 12, 2011, 01:00:00 PM ---I'm planning to make a D1-3 adapter for my dividing head and another to mount chucks to my mill. What I plan to do is use a dial gauge to set the compound at the correct angle by clocking off the lathe spindle taper. Does anyone see any potential problem with that?

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No - it is a good away as any, :thumbup:

What I normally do to make sure the taper is spot on, use engineers blue and tiny adjustments of the compound slide untill it looks correct with the blue. Sometimes it come out fine to start with and no adjustment is neccesary. :D

DaveH

djc:

--- Quote from: Pete. on June 12, 2011, 01:00:00 PM ---...What I plan to do is use a dial gauge to set the compound at the correct angle by clocking off the lathe spindle taper. Does anyone see any potential problem with that?
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It's a very short taper that you are clocking off. The taper on D-series spindles is 3" in dia. over 12" length. This works out to 7 degrees, 7 minutes and 30 seconds (in decimal 7.125 degrees, sometimes written as 7 deg 7 1/2 min).

You can use an indicator in the toolpost against a parallel bar between centres. Remember that the compound travel you read off the dial is the hypoteneuse of the triangle! This way you use the full travel of the compund to set the taper.

Davo J:
Hi,
For mine, I just went off the spindle nose with a 0.0001 DTI as it's ground nice and strait on the taper. I have the taper function on the DRO, but for this I didn't think it was really needed and mine have all turned out fine.

Dave

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