08-12-2017, 06:43 PM
Great project, Jack, but 253 tapped holes ?????!!!
Holy cow, that's a lotta' work even with a tapping head, but definitely a useful fixture. I'd sure like to have one of those plates but lack of patience prevents it. Did you use jig plate ? I bought a 1 inch thick piece of jig plate and really liked the way it machined.
It was the first time I'd used that material and it seemed harder than 6061-T6 and definitely tapped better. Did you also get that impression ?
This is the piece, used as a baseplate for a tiny lathe. (To give a scale sense, that is a 1/4 inch drill chuck in the tailstock.) The material also routed well, I used a 1/4 radius corner rounding cutter.
Holy cow, that's a lotta' work even with a tapping head, but definitely a useful fixture. I'd sure like to have one of those plates but lack of patience prevents it. Did you use jig plate ? I bought a 1 inch thick piece of jig plate and really liked the way it machined.
It was the first time I'd used that material and it seemed harder than 6061-T6 and definitely tapped better. Did you also get that impression ?
This is the piece, used as a baseplate for a tiny lathe. (To give a scale sense, that is a 1/4 inch drill chuck in the tailstock.) The material also routed well, I used a 1/4 radius corner rounding cutter.