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| mattinker:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on October 07, 2013, 09:13:33 AM ---Looking good Matt! :thumbup: --- End quote --- Thanks VT! It's good for the morale! Regards, Matthew |
| mattinker:
--- Quote from: mattinker on October 07, 2013, 08:28:18 PM --- --- Quote from: krv3000 on October 07, 2013, 03:11:22 PM ---thats cuming on nice a bit of topic have you got the travalnshons ofing stedy for your lathe if so can you do a diagram ofit so i can mack one for my lath --- End quote --- Thanks KRV. Sorry, I can't help with either kind of steady for your lathe. Regards, Matthew --- End quote --- Hi KRV, I came across the parts manual for the compact 8 pages 22 and 23 are traveling steady and fixed steady. I hope this is of some use! Regards, Matthew |
| mattinker:
Hi, to finish off the ends of the body casting, I turned the work round in the lathe to fly cut the other end. Set up. Finished. Now, both of the ends of the bore are square with the bore which will enable me to put it between centres on the Colchester to tun down the recess for the banjo, surface the banjo end face. I want to see how the casting for the banjo is. There are signs of slight pitting. Setting up to face one edge. Taking the top off. Having skimmed both sides, the work will sit nicely in the vices. My mill is slightly out of tram, not enough to be a problem here. As I'm going to rotate the head later, its not worth adjusting it now. Having skimmed the other side, I set up the work on a round bar and got it as straight as I could between the trued sides. A true face. Turned back over, on parallels to bring the first face into parallel with the second. In order to layout the position of the hole on the Banjo, I started by bluing it with marking fluid and measuring it with my height gauge. I missed a photo of drawing the line with the height gauge. The gauge was adjusted to half the height and I scribed a line with it along the centre. Using the dividers I scribed the largest circle I could get into the piece of work. Centring the the part to the middle of the future bore. The same old boring process. Centre drilling. A biggish pilot drill. More drilling! Again! 43mm! I'm roughly 2mm off final dimension. I wanted to see how deep the pitting was. I think it's superficial and a lot of it will go with the final bore. Between centres, I turned a shouldered piece of large round in the four-jaw and then turned a cone on it. As you can see, I tried it as it was , it worked, but a dog was in order. Dogged! The Colchester is bolted on to a concrete riser block, no movement or vibration! Squaring up the front edge of the base and beginning to turn down for the banjo seat. More of the same, I liked the photo! That's as far as I've got for the moment! To be continued. Regards, Matthew. |
| tom osselton:
Looking good mind you I would be standing out of the line of fire if those c clamps let go! |
| mattinker:
Tom, Thanks Tom. I was well out of the way! Regards, Matthew |
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