How to start

[TomG]

(05-25-2018, 10:29 AM)Nikon1975 Wrote: It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem: if you have a set of parallel, it's easy to make other parallels. If you have a 45 degree reference plate, it's easy to make another one. But I did not have a reference to flip the part 45 degrees in the vice. Additionally, I was loosely  following a Youtube video in doing the vee-block and he was tilting the head.

But this is one of the things I have in mind: should I buy a set of parallels and angle plates ?

Thanks,

D.

A set of parallels is mandatory, you will use them all the time.

Tilting the head will definitely work, but then it needs to be trammed in so it's perpendicular with the table. There are lots of other ways to achieve the 45º angle without messing with the head, but it does involve other tools for reference; a protractor, sine bar, angle plates or blocks, another V-block, etc. The machine is only the beginning. :)

Tom