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- Dec 25, 2011
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I made a new carriage stop to replace my old aluminum one with round bar on it.
Didn't have any steel in the size I needed but did have a chunk of 2 1/2" round , so cut a piece off it and started making chips.
I made the spindle 7/16x20 so I could mark the thimble at 50 index marks for .001 movement. Used a 10-24 set screw ground down to fit the 1/8" groove in the spindle. Grinding the set screw was a real pain, couldn't figure out how to hold it. Cut a piece of hex wrench and super glued the set screw to it and chucked it a drill and manually ground it with the grinder---kind of a hack, but it worked out
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Still need to figure out how to stamp the numbers on the spindle and make a clamp plate.Then clean it up.
Didn't have any steel in the size I needed but did have a chunk of 2 1/2" round , so cut a piece off it and started making chips.
I made the spindle 7/16x20 so I could mark the thimble at 50 index marks for .001 movement. Used a 10-24 set screw ground down to fit the 1/8" groove in the spindle. Grinding the set screw was a real pain, couldn't figure out how to hold it. Cut a piece of hex wrench and super glued the set screw to it and chucked it a drill and manually ground it with the grinder---kind of a hack, but it worked out
.Still need to figure out how to stamp the numbers on the spindle and make a clamp plate.Then clean it up.