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[njblignaut]

I have made an angle table for the mill

 

[LEEQ]

Toolpost keyless chuck, 1144 bar stock + $40 worth of chinesium.

 

[LEEQ]

The chicken scratches are taken from the C.ardboard A.ided D.esign process. The lids of many good pizza boxes have given they're lives for the cause. I was trying to figure out how to figure a final climb pass on both the bottom and side that landed me on size.

 

[LEEQ]

The design isn't mine, but my redesign allows for a much beefier connection of the chuck. It was my goal to keep the adjustable nature while adding strength wherever I could.

 

[LEEQ]

If this looks like your wheel, let me apologize. I don't think you will want it when I'm through.

 

[LEEQ]

As it turns out, wheels are nice iron. This plate is a donut that slips over my chuck on the rotary table, allowing for future division of 120, and127. My badass 4axis magnetic scale dro would not figure divisions that large for me. For every set of coordinates I had to go to my $260 Chinese dro on the lathe. When I asked it for 127 bolt holes it didn't bat an eye. Funny how life works, never quite how you think it will

 

[lordbeezer]

Made this few years back using a atlas headstock . 40:1. Was buying some Reamers from a guy. Told him what I just made. He dug out a brand new small Dayton dividing head new in box with foot. He bought it 30 years ago. Said would sell for what he paid. 75.00. Bought it quick.

 

[LEEQ]

That's a cool getter done tool, and a great deal too.

 

[LEEQ]

If you look real close at the drill chuck you might see that the washers are now hardened. As well as the washer in my new involute cutter arbor, also made of 1144. While I was at the bench I noticed everywhere I looked there was something else I had cobbled together like a t-nut and a collet to fit an end mill in a boring bar holder. I have definitely made way more tools, fixtures, and arbors than I have made things that don't go with the machines somehow. The backplate that fits the 3jaw to the rotary table was one of the first things I ever made. It's in one of those pictures. Someday when I grow up maybe I I'll get a grinder. Oh the things I will make then.

 

[Ultradog MN]

I call them donkey tools...