Project Mini Lathe Mods
#11
Ready for the bolt holes and this project will be done. I think I'll just use the DRO to dimension the bolt holes since the PLA model mated up with the steel riser block perfectly. Plus it'll be a good opportunity to try out the DRO bolt hole circle function.

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#12
Got'r done! After lunch I'm going to clean off the lathe and dismantle it and reassemble it with the new parts. I might have to shorten the screws so they're flush with the disk. I'll find out when I go to assemble it.

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#13
That would bug me no end, even if I never disassembled it ever again.

Chuck them up in the lathe and face them off to the same length.
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(06-04-2024, 03:11 PM)rleete Wrote: That would bug me no end, even if I never disassembled it ever again.

Chuck them up in the lathe and face them off to the same length.

Here you go Roger. I just removed them and  filed them down. Much quicker than installing the 4-jaw chuck.  Big Grin

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All done except for the bronze gib. That's a separate project in itself. That's going to take some thinking as to how to hold it to machine the angles.  Chin

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What? You don't have a surface grinder and a Herman-Shmidt angle vise? Your tool crib is lacking...
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(06-04-2024, 04:56 PM)rleete Wrote: What?  You don't have a surface grinder and a Herman-Shmidt angle vise?  ...

Not yet.  Rotfl

I do want to make a lantern chuck for shortening screws. I've been studying plans I found online to come up with my own design. I've wanted to make one of those for years.

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Well, post the plans. It's always been on my list for #6 and smaller screws.
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(06-05-2024, 09:48 AM)rleete Wrote: Well, post the plans.  It's always been on my list for #6 and smaller screws.

Will do. My plan is to make it useful for 1/4" and smaller screws.

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#20
Installing the AXA tool post reduced the diameter of work that I could machine in the lathe so I'm doing the extension mod. I bought the longer length cross slide feed screw from LMS. They wanted $40 for the spacer & I'm not willing to pay that amount for a simple spacer so I'll make my own.

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