POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

60+ and counting . Chucks , you never have enough . Only 3 large Vidmars left to go . :encourage: No shortage of arbors . :rolleyes:
Is this (red circle) one of those chucks you can change bits on while still running?
 

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Put some way covers on, super glued a couple of pieces to the underside where the T slots line up to keep most chips out. Also made a spacer to keep the fine feed handle from hitting the quill dro. Just a disc with a hole to accept the pin from the handwheel and a pin pressed in the other side of the disc to interface with the mill. The disc is .185 thick and the spacing of the pins is 0.500 from the center hole which is also 0.500, in case that helps someone.
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Adding a dro scale to the cross slide of the Monarch 12” CK lathe. I’ve had the Z axis scale on there for a couple years, this just kept getting put off since the cross slide at least has numbers on the dial. Any mods to an 80 year old lathe make me a bit nervous, but a dro really makes sense.
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Adding a Z axis power feed to the SHARP LMV mill, the jack shaft was really stuck in there, like press fit stuck. I have to take it out because I bought a Servo Dynamo power feed and you have to drill the end of the shaft, ideally in the lathe as they spec 0.002" or less run out. I didn't want to mar the end of the shaft and I didn't want to remove the table and saddle to tap it out of the other end. So I thought about it and came up with the idea to use a collet block and a slide hammer. There is a washer that fits through the front but not the back of the block to pull against. Worked great, Z shaft out.

I chose this particular powerfeed because I prefer the handwheel over reusing the manual crank handle as well as the jog function, love it so far.

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