Angle Plate

[Andre]

Made a 90* angle plate from a piece of thick heavy duty angle iron. Found the piece in a friends to the scrapper box.
Started milling on it last night and finished it this afternoon, it ended up very square off the mill, no light between it and a square while on a surface plate, but I'm going to hand scrape it anyway just for kicks.

I won't do into detail about how i made it, as I followed Tom Liptons blog article on him making one.

http://oxtool.blogspot.com/2012/09/squaring-techinques-on-milling-machine.html









Sorry no pics of milling the main faces, but Tom's article explains it and shows how he did it.

Happy machining!

 

[Bill C.]

Made a 90* angle plate from a piece of thick heavy duty angle iron. Found the piece in a friends to the scrapper box.
Started milling on it last night and finished it this afternoon, it ended up very square off the mill, no light between it and a square while on a surface plate, but I'm going to hand scrape it anyway just for kicks.

I won't do into detail about how i made it, as I followed Tom Liptons blog article on him making one.

http://oxtool.blogspot.com/2012/09/squaring-techinques-on-milling-machine.html

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Sorry no pics of milling the main faces, but Tom's article explains it and shows how he did it.

Happy machining!

Very nice. Glad to see a piece of rough stock turned into a nice tool.

 

[Andre]

Very nice. Glad to see a piece of rough stock turned into a nice tool.

Thank you, Bill! It's gonna look even better scraped.

 

[Andre]

Okay, I've started scraping in the first main face. Have a few more passes to do, moreso to even out the finish than get it flatter. It's at 10 or so PPI, fine for a clamping fixture as it will get warped with use eventually anyhow.

I push scraped for the first 10 or so passes than switched to a pull scraper with a flat (no radius) edge to hopefully get a checkerboard finish. Pictures soon.

 

[drs23]

Okay, I've started scraping in the first main face. Have a few more passes to do, moreso to even out the finish than get it flatter. It's at 10 or so PPI, fine for a clamping fixture as it will get warped with use eventually anyhow.

I push scraped for the first 10 or so passes than switched to a pull scraper with a flat (no radius) edge to hopefully get a checkerboard finish. Pictures soon.

Standing by. Can't wait to see the pics!

 

[Andre]

Standing by. Can't wait to see the pics!

Thanks! The two main faces are rough scraped in, and it will get finish scraped now that I can measure squareness. In the meantime it's been on the shelf.....umm....seasoning :biggrin:

 

[Shadowdog500]

That looks great!!! I can't wait to see the rest.

Chris

 

[Andre]

That looks great!!! I can't wait to see the rest.

Chris

Thank you! I should have the side I'm working on scraped in today. Two main faces are done, doing the ends now. (all machines surfaces will be scraped to .0005" in squareness)

 

[Andre]

Scraped in both ends today, will check my work real well once my new plate arrives Thursday..



It's all a half decent checkerboard. Roughed in with the push scraper and finished with the pull scraper.

Scraping this thing is not as easy as I thought, not just scraping flat surfaces, I learned a lot about step scraping and tilting planes will everything is square. So far as best I can measure it's +- .0005. Till I drop it :biggrin:

When the better plate arrives I will redo the two faces, I've gotten better with the pull scraper since I did those a few months ago.

 

[Torbo]

Nice work! You can get my address, come over the Atlantic-ocean and learn me something about scraping!?