06-14-2014, 06:14 PM
I made some progress on the cross slide today. I got the plug pressed in and the three holes almost done. The middle of the three is supposed to be threaded for a set screw and I grabbed the wrong drill bit and drilled it for a clearance fit instead of a tap drill. Not a big deal, I'll just use a M6x1 instead of the 10-32 I was going to use. I still need to slot the screw shank hole in the left hole. I've got the screw head hole slotted but couldn't slot the shank hole in the same setup so I need to flip it over and mill that from the bottom side.
Ignore the far right hole. It's for a Gits oiler and not part of the cross slide fix.
Ed
EDIT: I guess I didn't screw up the hole for the set screw. I went to drill it out for a M6 tap size and realized I hadn't drilled it larger than a tap size for a 10-32 thread. So now the hole is tapped for the 10-32 set screw.
Ignore the far right hole. It's for a Gits oiler and not part of the cross slide fix.
Ed
EDIT: I guess I didn't screw up the hole for the set screw. I went to drill it out for a M6 tap size and realized I hadn't drilled it larger than a tap size for a 10-32 thread. So now the hole is tapped for the 10-32 set screw.