11-16-2012, 07:52 AM
Greg, thanks for the pic, boy! they ARE worth a thousand words.
I knew it couldn't be a simple cotter pin so I Googled split cotter and that's where I got the pic of the cotter pin and, actually, they are split.
I went back to Google this morning and found a website just a bit down from the one I got the cotter pin pic from and low and behold
, there it was.
It's something I would have described as "a clamp like the spindle lock on some drill presses or tailstock rams" which is rather clumsy compared to "split cotter"
Now I can take it easy for the rest of the day, having learned something already.
I knew it couldn't be a simple cotter pin so I Googled split cotter and that's where I got the pic of the cotter pin and, actually, they are split.
I went back to Google this morning and found a website just a bit down from the one I got the cotter pin pic from and low and behold
, there it was.It's something I would have described as "a clamp like the spindle lock on some drill presses or tailstock rams" which is rather clumsy compared to "split cotter"
Now I can take it easy for the rest of the day, having learned something already.
Busy Bee 12-36 lathe, Busy Bee Mill drill, Busy Bee 4x6 bandsaw, Homemade 9x17 bandsaw, Ad infinitum.