Mills

[TerrydParticipant @terryd72465]

Well said Chris. No comments or personal insults about infantilism, nappies or incompetence from this end.

 

Terry

Edited By Terryd on 08/12/2010 21:47:26

Edited By Terryd on 08/12/2010 21:51:58

[TerrydParticipant @terryd72465]

Hi Wolfie,

 

Did you manage to do your milling? If so did you manage to overcome the milling cutter being drawn out of the chuck?  Don’t keep us in suspense, let us know how you got on with it.  You succeeded I hope

 

Terry

[WolfieParticipant @wolfie]

Things are a bit on hold at the moment mainly because its been uniformly -10 degrees in my garage and the little fan heater I have isn’t coping lol. Also I am well on with the Xmas builds on the truck modelling front.

 

Apart from that I have had a go yes and the cutter didn’t move at all. Its in the 3 jaw chuck, not the tailstock chuck.  Thing is, I bought a small vertical slide and the two holes in the bottom don’t line up with the slots in my cross slide grr. So it was the vertical slide that moved. I need to bolt down a bit of bar both sides of it to hold it rigid, but I don’t have enough T pieces. So thats where its stood at the moment.

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

If you can bear it, do what I did and drill and tap two holes in the cross-slide for the vertical slide mounting screws. Also. a sheet of paper under the slide may also help stop it moving.

 

Neil

[John OlsenParticipant @johnolsen79199]

Neil is very right with his suggestion of a piece of paper to stop things moving….For those who may not have come across this idea before it is an excellent thing to do when metal surfaces have to grip together. Ordinary paper as supplied for printing and photocopying works fine, I have also used dockets from purchases at engineering suppliers since they tend to lie around in the workshop sometimes. Just cut or tear a suitable sized piece and put it in between the two surfaces to be gripped. Paper is generally uniform enough in thickness and thin enough that you don’t need to worry about any resulting error. It is really good when holding parts in a smooth jawed milling vice.

 

regards

John

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Paper at this level is quite abrasive and so helps to hold things still. In addition is allows those liitle peaks on the surface of your metal things to have somewhere to go (into the paper)

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