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| yourdaddyjoe |
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Carrie is the greatest! She knows what Daddy likes! TOOOOOOLS!
I swear she takes mental notes. I've been looking at this spin index for months as an alternative of using the rotary table to speed up production.
She asked what was the most common size bar stock I use awhile back while doing the books and making a spread sheet for materials.
She got all the collets I will use in the shop up to the 1" bore of the index, plus a adjustable stop that goes in the collets to take the guess work out of setting the depth on the material.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:06 pm |
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| ZipSnipe |
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| Aah man I am jealous!!!!!! Spin indexer I always wanted one!!! |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:36 pm |
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| yourdaddyjoe |
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Grizzly Tools... About $100 with the collets.
I just ordered one more Collet for one of the parts I make.
It's all mounted up on the mill and DAMN! Much more stable then the Rotary Table ever was.
No more 9 turns just to go 45*.
Super easy to find TDC. The spring loaded depth stop works awesome!
I drilled two 3/8" holes 1.1" from center to line up perfectly with the T-Slots in the mini-mill to eliminate the need for other hold downs.
Squared the base to the T-slots
Locked her down
Centered my edge finder to the mark on the dial.
I put a 10" piece of bar stock in a collet and ran my edge finder right down the middle the full length and it's dead on.
Turned it 180* and still dead on.
How the Eff did I do this before? I'm sold and the whole thing cost less than the rotary table set up with chuck.
It's very friendly with my 16mm Drill Chuck. You can snake right up to the clamped edge without running into chuck jaws...
I think it's time for a DRO kit since I am doing more precision work these days. I'm tired of counting turns! |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:28 pm |
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| Mark5043 |
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Such a nice set up!...Tool porn..  |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:42 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:59 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:29 pm |
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| ZipSnipe |
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| I sooo want a a DRO but man they are expensive!! But makes manual milling sooo much easier. Keep us posted on the shop upgrades!!!! |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:20 am |
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| Alstone |
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Thats a nice tool Joe you should get many hours of fun out of that.
Keep up the good work!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:46 am |
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| yourdaddyjoe |
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Thanks Al,
It's on deck for some production work this week. I'm just waiting on a 5/8" Collet to arrive so I can do the Stock Adapter mounts for the 13xx models.
Funny how a mechanical mind works. I had a hard time sleeping last night.
Too many different ways to use this puppy in production rolling around in my head...
I have a feeling that I'm going to get more use out of my mill than I expected. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:13 pm |
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| SMP |
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Joe that's an awesome production gadget. I'm of course using ye ol rotary and chuck...which likes to occupy half of my 22" table.
How would you index tube in that I wonder???? bushing inside tube and collet? |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:26 pm |
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| yourdaddyjoe |
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I stuck a 2250 tube in it and locked it down. No dimension change or deformation.
I was checking out some YouTube vids on tips. Some guys mount a vice inline and also clamp the longer work for a even more stable work piece.
Pffft! who needs formal training when you got YouTube? Real guys in the real world not a class room teaching theory...
Ya can send a boy to college but you can't make him think...  Public Education
Okayyyy I'll step off my soap box now... |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:34 pm |
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| yourdaddyjoe |
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| FYI, I had Greg make me some longer T-Nuts that are threaded on one end so I can use the whole bed length... pretty slick when you can mount a fixture on the very end of the table. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:04 pm |
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You mean long as in 2" of slot length?
Sounds intriguing...gotta pic? |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:12 pm |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:25 pm |
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