MadModder
The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: NeoTech on April 08, 2013, 07:56:59 AM
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Ever thought of buying these? they are kinda neat.. Looks good in picture.. what does not come out of these pictures is their size. :)
The are sitting in the palm of my hand.. :thumbup:
(http://www.roughedge.se/blogg/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130408-135429.jpg)
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I have the one that is a 6 mm bar in the chuck, with a level that rests on the tool tip. It works fine and I use it, but a 6" ruler trapped between the tool tip and a bar works just as well (adjust for vertical ruler)
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yeah i thought of getting that first.. but im a cheapskate.. ;)
And i have never got that ruler trapped between work and tip to work.. ever.. i usuall eyeball the tip against a center point or something or just.. well eyeball it.. is usually on center.. Its the damn parting bits i have trouble with.. and they are scary as hell to use off center in 700rpm pushing through a 80mm steel bar ;D
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I made a fixed height gauge that sits on the cross-slide, top of the upright is at centre height and offset on top of that a piece of gauge plate, so I can bring tools to meet it either right way up or flipped over if I want to turn the far side of the work. The upright threads into the base with a locking ring, so there's a bit of adjustment that I used to get it dead on centre height before locking it up for good. Works for me, quick to use and doesn't ding up my 6" rule :)
Dave H. (the other one)
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Ah well i have a chinese crap lathe.. doesnt have tslots in the cross slide..cant really attach anything there. ;/
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I made up my own stop which works with material down to 1/16" thick in the vice. I'm not normally one for making tools but they are so easy to make.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/jasonballamy/Engineering/EastonandAnderson/IMAG1217.jpg)
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hehe yeah its a neat solution.. but these are pretty.. :lol:
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but these are pretty.. :lol:
They sure are :thumbup: , I have there tram tool :dremel:
Rob
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[Quote Neotech;]
Ah well i have a chinese crap lathe.. doesnt have tslots in the cross slide..cant really attach anything there. ;/
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My T slots are plugged unless I'm bolting something down, otherwise they fill up with swarf and I can't get the T nuts in!
If your cross-slide has a flat top you can just sit the base on it, like I do - worth putting a dti in the spindle to check it really is flat though...
Dave H. (the other one)