A Shop Built Adjustable Angle Plate

[astroracer]

Thanks for the compliments guys, much appreciated.
Rick, I do have a rotary table and that was part of the reason for building this plate. I also have some smaller 3 jaw chucks i plan to make adapters for so they can be bolted on also.
Brino, I have an old version of Unigraphics that runs on my home computer. It is very capable...
Mark

 

[astroracer]

I just ordered this Black Oxide Kit from Caswell.
http://www.caswellplating.com/metal...lack-oxide-kits/black-oxide-kit-1-25-gal.html
I'll post up results.

 

[astroracer]

I got the Black Oxide kit last nite and put it to use tonite. The first thing I refinished was this big ole wrench. I had blasted it earlier and it took the stain quite well.
After hitting it with a sanding pad on my mini air sander.

This is what it looked like after the oxide. Once the sealer drys I'll get more pics.

I then cleaned up the angle plate parts and dunked those.

The top plate. NOW... you can see around the tapped holes where the stain didn't take... That's on me. When Caswell says the "parts should be clean. Oil and grease free. I think they mean "squeaky"... I cleaned the parts after sanding off the mill scale BUT I didn't clean out all of the threaded holes... What you see is tapping fluid contamination keeping the oxide from working correctly.

The small parts. They turned out pretty good.

All back together and it doesn't look half bad. I may run the parts thru the sandblaster and redo them. They don't look terrible but I know they could look better...



They said to scrub the parts with comet... I will do that next time.
Mark

 

[brino]

Thanks for sharing your process and results.
I have never tried that finish, but could see it being useful.
-brino

 

[John Hasler]

Looks about like what I get with cold phosphoric acid and linseed oil.