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[Mayhem]

(08-19-2015, 08:58 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: ...All my tools look like heck.

Mine too - that is why I have so few pictures of them!

[Sunset Machine]

Wanna see my table clamps?

[Shawn]

That slotting attachment is amazing Rob, I would love to try my hand at aluminum casting one day. Here is the slotting attachment I started last Spring, once fire season is over I will finish it. Was planning to add a 4 position stop. It mounts on my SB9" along with my rotary table. 

[RobWilson]

(08-19-2015, 10:11 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Wanna see my table clamps?

Sure do 


Hi Shawn , 

Thats a very nice looking slotter , the parts are well finished .  

You say your planning on making a four position stop for it .  I would not bother mate , make a four position carriage stop instead (something that I need to do )  ,then the stop can be used for other jobs . 

 are you using your RT on the lathe ? 


Cheers Lads , Rob

[DaveH]

(08-19-2015, 10:11 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Wanna see my table clamps?

Yep

DaveH

[Shawn]

Thanks Rob, I am planning to use the slotter on my lathe in conjunction with the rotary table. I'm planning to make a bracket to mount the table on the bed ways. I could have made an indexing attachment for the lathe (I want to be able to cut division marks onto dials as well as slot) but figured I already had the rotary table.

Cheers
Shawn

[RobWilson]

Hi Shawn , 

Why not make an indexing attachment   ,,,,,,,,,,, I have nearly two for my Myford lathe , 

A direct indexing attachment the uses the 60 T back gear bull wheel , this dose about 80 percent of what I need .





The other unfinished project uses the bull gear in a worm and wheel arrangement .



 









Which reminds me looking at above I used a spring tool /swan neck to do the screw cutting and worm on the spindle . Easy to make in an hour or so of work and uses old /bust centre drills re sharpened for cutters .





 Spindle some grade of SS


CUB Lathe cross slide screw EN24 (just because the bars was the right size for the job).




Cheers Rob 

[EdK]

I made this vise work stop some time ago. I still need to make larger thumbs screws so it's easier to tighten the clamps. The bolts are 1/2-13 to fit my Kurt vise and they're tapped M8 which my small import vise uses for attaching the work stop.

Ed

   

   

   

   

[RobWilson]

Nice going Ed   ,  I STILL! need to sort out some vice stops , every time I jerry rig something . 


Next tool , my copy of a Zero set DTI mount . 










The square mounting bar is so the tool can be mounted in the shaper tool holder , very handy  . 




Cheers Rob

[RobWilson]

NEXT ! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, My hydraulic gear    all built from scrap that I had salvaged , 30 ton press ,,,,,,,but I operate it a 20 as there is a wee bit flex in the tool table , I ran out of the heavier channel .one day I will get round to beefing it up .




Being a lazy git I cant be doing with this hand pumping LOL , so I knocked up a hydraulic power pack , the motor /pump unit is from a railway crossing barrier I scrounged from the 
lads working on the level crossings in the village , they were fitting new barriers. Welded up a tank , valve block is from a FLT .

 




My 6.5 ton G clamp    ,,,,,,,,,,,, well its a rivet closer .






I still have a few hydraulic doodads to make , rolls and bender . 


Cheers Rob