06-20-2016, 03:43 AM
I had a nice little win on this one this afternoon, the bloke who I bought it from messaged me saying he had found the centre for it if I wanted to come by and pick it up. I thought that's nice, it takes a 3mt centre and would be handy to have.
I swung past on my way to work tonight and what he actually had was the tailstock for this dividing head.
Much better find than a 3mt centre would have been.
I did manage to get the chuck plate off it the other day, some gentle application of th propane torch around the hub and it came off pretty easily. There's a keyway that locates the direct-dividing plate behind the chuck, the key was missing from this and I suspect that had allowed the chuck to get over-tightened on the spindle. Now I can flip it around to swap between the 16-slot and 36-slot sides of the direct-dividing plate, nice and easy to make a hex etc off the 36-slot side.
I swung past on my way to work tonight and what he actually had was the tailstock for this dividing head.
Much better find than a 3mt centre would have been.
I did manage to get the chuck plate off it the other day, some gentle application of th propane torch around the hub and it came off pretty easily. There's a keyway that locates the direct-dividing plate behind the chuck, the key was missing from this and I suspect that had allowed the chuck to get over-tightened on the spindle. Now I can flip it around to swap between the 16-slot and 36-slot sides of the direct-dividing plate, nice and easy to make a hex etc off the 36-slot side.
Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.