Tailstock camlock....should have done it sooner.

Suzuki4evr

Suzuki4evr

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Hallo members.

There is a lot of things about this site that I like and one of them is opportunities. What I mean about that is this sit provides opportunities to help yourself by seeing and looking at projects of other members. So thank you H-M for being greate. No I will stop blabbing and get to the project I did.

My big lathes tailstock still had to be fastened by not one but two clamp down nuts and that was getting very old and time waisting. So I made a camlock for it. At first I did not think it was possible because of the design of the tailstock, but as I started looking for possibilities, I found one that could work for me. I had my own design but looking back it was too complicated.

I got the design on google and help from the members on H-M with the camlock offset. So thanks boys.

Here is a few pics of the parts. I did not post them in order,but you will get the idea. 20200713_163450.jpg
The old method of clamping
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The main parts
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Everything assembled 20200727_154337.jpg20200727_113201.jpg20200723_153313.jpg20200723_132723.jpg20200723_132705.jpg20200722_160252.jpg20200722_160241.jpg20200721_143656.jpg20200721_143850.jpg20200721_144444.jpg
I made an aluminium block to get a straight angle and fitted a bush in that for the cam to ride in.20200721_144454.jpg20200713_163450.jpg20200721_143641.jpg
Thanks for viewing.

Michael.
 
Wow! Thanks for posting.. I am TOTALLY DOING THIS.

Bernie
 
wow, that's some impressively accurate work to get everything lined up just so! Did you figure out the "clocking" of the cammed shaft before you drilled the hole for the handle? Or was that figured out ahead of time?
 
Thanks. I assembled the parts and moved the cam to the 3 o' clock position and lightly clamp a vice grip to the shaft and started moving the vice grip to the 12 o' clock position until it started tightening the tailstock. I then made a mark on the shaft and handle bushing, leave room for more tightening. I then removed the shaft and drilled the hole and inserted the pin. I then reassembled the parts and lifted the handle towards the 12 o' clock position again and setting the clamping bolt at the bottom little by little until I was satisfied with the clamp down of the tailstock.
 
Suzuki4evr said:
Please take pics and post your progress. I would like to see the outcome.
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I'm a little behind, but now I have two machines to do this on, my SB 10L, and now a Leblond Squarehead, so I better get to it!
 
itsme_Bernie said:
I'm a little behind, but now I have two machines to do this on, my SB 10L, and now a Leblond Squarehead, so I better get to it!
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Now you have twice as much fun to have. Don't forget to post your progress and PICS.
 
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