Hello all:
I have a Micromark 7x16. There have been a few times where I've needed to cut a very shallow angle (say 15* or less - such as the chamfer on a bolt head)
I overcame one issue - the fact that the protractor is only graduated to 45*, by using a separate adjustable protractor.
The second issue is that at these angles the cross slide and compound dials crash into each other - you cannot feed the compound direction w/o hitting the cross slide dial.
Is there anyway to overcome this? Am I missing a simple solution? One way I suppose it so grind a tool bit to this angle, but I've found pretty quickly the lathe runs out of rigidity and you get a lot of chatter.
Thanks,
Matt.
I have a Micromark 7x16. There have been a few times where I've needed to cut a very shallow angle (say 15* or less - such as the chamfer on a bolt head)
I overcame one issue - the fact that the protractor is only graduated to 45*, by using a separate adjustable protractor.
The second issue is that at these angles the cross slide and compound dials crash into each other - you cannot feed the compound direction w/o hitting the cross slide dial.
Is there anyway to overcome this? Am I missing a simple solution? One way I suppose it so grind a tool bit to this angle, but I've found pretty quickly the lathe runs out of rigidity and you get a lot of chatter.
Thanks,
Matt.