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- Nov 11, 2013
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Lucky enough to have the M19 spindle orientation on the lathe. Even though ther are no spindle brake, the lathe main spindle is held in place by the motor.
I do quite a few bolt patterns, and this would just help in the fact that I do not need to go on a second set-up do drill the bolt pattern (The small mill and its DRO, will see less work for shure!)
This is not a milling set-up, but it could be looked into eventually, but the placing of the head will need to be adressed, because of the turret.
A few pictures to show how I installed a Sherline hi-torque headstock, on my CXA size QCTP. The headstock comes with a 3/4-16 OD thread, which is coupled to a 36B female threaded chuck. I would have prefered a ER collet interface, but Sherline only supply ER16, which is too small for my applications. I did run the power of the motor almost to its limits, but this will only be for very short duty cycles.
Drilled a few holes with a 10mm drill in aluminum yesterday, and it works great!
I do quite a few bolt patterns, and this would just help in the fact that I do not need to go on a second set-up do drill the bolt pattern (The small mill and its DRO, will see less work for shure!)
This is not a milling set-up, but it could be looked into eventually, but the placing of the head will need to be adressed, because of the turret.
A few pictures to show how I installed a Sherline hi-torque headstock, on my CXA size QCTP. The headstock comes with a 3/4-16 OD thread, which is coupled to a 36B female threaded chuck. I would have prefered a ER collet interface, but Sherline only supply ER16, which is too small for my applications. I did run the power of the motor almost to its limits, but this will only be for very short duty cycles.
Drilled a few holes with a 10mm drill in aluminum yesterday, and it works great!
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