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First off, a special thanks to Aaron for his post on metric threading. It prompted me to work on my partially finished
similar project. My gear train was made by machining steel blanks to size and using 16 diametral pitch
involute gear cutters. Making the gear blanks is quite easy on the lathe with the help of information
found in Machinery's Handbook. Gear cutting was done on my vertical mill using a 90-1 rotary table.
I use my Springfield lathe with 5c collets most of the time which will be really handy for making metric
bolts and nuts. The orange piece on the back of the lathe is used to tighten the collet chuck and has four
tabs on it to tension the collet body, a home made system that I have been pretty happy with. It's orange
to remind be of the hazards involved at that end of the lathe.
This is a photo of my setup used for cutting the gears.
Above is a photo of the completed project mounted on the lathe and working well. It makes the common 1.0mm, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.75mm threads.
It was a fun but rather long project and took several days to complete. It could use a coat of paint and maybe a couple holes in the frame to drip
oil the gearing.
similar project. My gear train was made by machining steel blanks to size and using 16 diametral pitch
involute gear cutters. Making the gear blanks is quite easy on the lathe with the help of information
found in Machinery's Handbook. Gear cutting was done on my vertical mill using a 90-1 rotary table.
I use my Springfield lathe with 5c collets most of the time which will be really handy for making metric
bolts and nuts. The orange piece on the back of the lathe is used to tighten the collet chuck and has four
tabs on it to tension the collet body, a home made system that I have been pretty happy with. It's orange
to remind be of the hazards involved at that end of the lathe.
This is a photo of my setup used for cutting the gears.
Above is a photo of the completed project mounted on the lathe and working well. It makes the common 1.0mm, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.75mm threads.
It was a fun but rather long project and took several days to complete. It could use a coat of paint and maybe a couple holes in the frame to drip
oil the gearing.
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