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MadNick:
Whaddya mean?!

You *made* me make the parts rather than splashing out my hard earned ;)

Nick

Fergus OMore:
Hi Nick, I hadn't realised that you had the spindle casting- hence my note about getting a 6"DE grinder.

Couple up that damned motor with a bit of round belting and let's see it- perform.

All that seems to be bugging the issue is the casting for the end mills etc- which I have-- and the odds and ends to do the saw sharpening.

Now for some smaller disks- eh?

Cheers

N

Tak tha'ha't off, tha't int Yorkshire! ( Private joke) :lol:

MadNick:
Afternoon,

Ive been busy.

The first thing to make was the sliding clamp for the table support. I came up with this -

And to give an idea of where it goes -

And then with the table support pillar that I made previously -

After that I made the lower part of the clamp thus -

Interesting I found the handle for this clamp was thread to an M6 whilst it should be a BSF as should all the other threads - more of that later.

With the sliding clamp fitted -

And then with the pillar put in place temporarily -

So, once young Fergus can tell me what the height of the original casting is I can fix mine to the slide.

Back to the threads. This collection of castings was the remnants of a Kennet someone had made previously. Needless to say there is plenty of room for improvement. Having nipped down to the toolshop and purchased some BSW taps and dies especially for this to clean up some of the threads I find out they dont match - when will I ever stop making assumptions. I whipped the thread gauge out which tells me that at least one of these is are a Whitworth 22G and the one on the sliding clamp handle is M6.

For the meantime Ill work with what I have as I want to get up and running plus there are more important things to make - holder for sharpening milling cutters.

I hope this post is of interest.

Nick

doubleboost:
Hi
Hick
Very interesting post :clap: :clap: :clap:
I will be a very handy machine when you get it sorted :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
John

MadNick:
Ok,

Onto another piece of the jigsaw and another opportunity to turn rust into shiny steel.

I need to fab up a holder for collets so I can sharpen endmills. Thanks to Norman I have a good idea of what is needed. This attachment is similar to the holder for lathe tools so, just to get an idea of sizing, I turned this -

Into this -

I have to say the flycutter on the vertical mill is really good at this. It does need constant sharpening but really can level quite a large area in a short amount of time. Obviously once the grinder is up and running Ill be able to grind my own tool to the correct angles for the flycutter.

I just need to start sketching out some lines on the unformed block of steel and then putting some shape into it.

Nick

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