I use it everytime I put something in the lathe since I keep a 4 jaw on the spindle
when I cut the center out I plunge cut most of it out, then used a boring bar to clean the bottom and sidewall to the final dimension.
The first one I made was out of a hunk of 1018 coldroll, sorry its been too long to remember what I did to cut the indicator pocket on that one.
if a guy had a CNC setup even a small one it wouldn't be hard to write the code to let the machine do the cut probably take a while to cut it thou.
Sure is nice to set it on the post and lock the wedge and not have to worry about it falling off, I still need to drill an tap a couple holes in it for DTI's and such
when I cut the center out I plunge cut most of it out, then used a boring bar to clean the bottom and sidewall to the final dimension.
The first one I made was out of a hunk of 1018 coldroll, sorry its been too long to remember what I did to cut the indicator pocket on that one.
if a guy had a CNC setup even a small one it wouldn't be hard to write the code to let the machine do the cut probably take a while to cut it thou.
Sure is nice to set it on the post and lock the wedge and not have to worry about it falling off, I still need to drill an tap a couple holes in it for DTI's and such
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