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Bernd:
Very nice John.  :thumbup:

Some time in the future I'll have to make one for the Bridgeport mill. I've got the head tramed in pretty good on it now using, like you said, a long bar and sung it back and forth to get the head "0". I might never move it but then again you never know.

BTW, that tool sure would look nice in a wooden box.  :poke:

But knowing how you don't like wood work I guess not.  :lol:

Bernd

HS93:
That looks magic  :ddb:   :ddb: and I have Just the Padded box for it, and a little mill to use it on.
The only problem is that I will now have to up my game a lot so it will be worth all the effort you have put in to it. :bow:

thanks

peter

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Divided he ad:
Job done  :thumbup: 

Nice bit of tooling there John  :)





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Now if that were the case then Peter's post would be the cast of "Water ship down"!!!!  :lol:




Ralph.

Stilldrillin:
Thank you John.  :thumbup:

That`s a crackin` job, well explained......  :clap:

David.

bogstandard:
Thanks lads for the comments, glad to have entertained you for a while. As usual, I have enjoyed doing it as well.

Peter & David,

When I can get the boss to take me out to the post office, your little packages will be on their way, but not today, I have a special cruising visitor calling this afternoon. More goodies from the US.

My next backlog project will be making some model engine flywheels for a project in the future, for myself and a good mate of mine, who will need one very soon.

Showing how I do these has been done before on other sites, but if anyone is interested, I will catalogue it and post as usual. If not, I will just get on with it.

Just a quick note on the tramming tool.

Although I go on about extolling it's virtues, I will just tell you what I think about it.

I have been doing the process of tramming for more years than I want to remember, using all of the old school methods. Struggling to get perfection, and no matter what anyone tells you, unless you are very experience in doing it the 'old way', it can become a chore that you detest doing.
Not so much of an issue on the larger and more rigid machines, but just by doing some heavy cutting can easily knock your head out of tram. It is not an issue normally when cutting in the X axis, you just get a little back cut, and that can be an advantage at times. But when you do a cut in the Y axis with the head out of wack in the X, you will never get a truly square cut, it will be tilted one way or the other.

This little tool, in all honesty, makes the job of tramming a joy to do, taking out all the inherent errors normally associated with the job, and it speeds up the process to usually a couple of minutes, rather than the normal half hour or so.

John

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