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Hallo members.
There is a lot of things about this site that I like and one of them is opportunities. What I mean about that is this sit provides opportunities to help yourself by seeing and looking at projects of other members. So thank you H-M for being greate. No I will stop blabbing and get to the project I did.
My big lathes tailstock still had to be fastened by not one but two clamp down nuts and that was getting very old and time waisting. So I made a camlock for it. At first I did not think it was possible because of the design of the tailstock, but as I started looking for possibilities, I found one that could work for me. I had my own design but looking back it was too complicated.
I got the design on google and help from the members on H-M with the camlock offset. So thanks boys.
Here is a few pics of the parts. I did not post them in order,but you will get the idea.
The old method of clamping
The main parts
Everything assembled
I made an aluminium block to get a straight angle and fitted a bush in that for the cam to ride in.
Thanks for viewing.
Michael.
There is a lot of things about this site that I like and one of them is opportunities. What I mean about that is this sit provides opportunities to help yourself by seeing and looking at projects of other members. So thank you H-M for being greate. No I will stop blabbing and get to the project I did.
My big lathes tailstock still had to be fastened by not one but two clamp down nuts and that was getting very old and time waisting. So I made a camlock for it. At first I did not think it was possible because of the design of the tailstock, but as I started looking for possibilities, I found one that could work for me. I had my own design but looking back it was too complicated.
I got the design on google and help from the members on H-M with the camlock offset. So thanks boys.
Here is a few pics of the parts. I did not post them in order,but you will get the idea.
The old method of clamping
The main parts
Everything assembled
I made an aluminium block to get a straight angle and fitted a bush in that for the cam to ride in.
Thanks for viewing.
Michael.