1hand said:What you think of this Idea...........Getting a 6" 4jaw and instead of the 4" get a 3" 5c 4jaw chuck. Being I have the 5c on the lathe now. Would the 3" be useless do to its size for most of the Elmer's engines? I thought it would be nice for them lathe to mill transfers. I already have a 5c Indexer for the mill. Wouldn't have to re chuck and would save me an additional back plate to make.
1hand said:Sorry to clutter your build page, but what I was getting at is.......say you got a square part and you need to turn a boss on one end. So you put it in the 4jaw on the lathe. now you go to drill and tap a circle bolt pattern on the boss you just turned, so you then take the 4jaw 5c collet chuck out of the lathe transfer it to your 5c mount on the mill. The piece stays mounted in the 4jaw that you carefully had all centered up while it was in the lathe. your 5c mount was all centered up in the mill a head of time, so you tighten the collet chuck down, move your off set and start drilling.
This is kinda what I was referring to.
Matt
see how I wear myself out!!
1hand said:Right, I have both the 5c indexer and the vertical/horz. mount also. I guess my biggest concern is trying to rotate odd shape pieces on the mill. I guess another avenue to go would be turn a plate with a spindle that matches my lathe to fit on my RT. That way I could use the 4jaws, 3jaws, and 5C chucks on both the lathe and mill just by spinning them off and spinning them back on. Then instead of having two of each chucks and separate back mounting plates every thing would be interchangeable with each other.
So my next Question issssssssss...............Will our lathes turn a M39x4 Thread?
1hand said:If you think I freak show yet..................
Here I need to rotate on both axis's using the same reference point. Where if I had a chuck I could remove from machine to machine staying spot on would of been easier.
Matt
1hand said:Some real progress today I see. Your getting me hooked on them 4 jaws. How many Thou. you take per pass on the crank opening when its mounted like that?
Nice work, Matt
1hand said:MB,
Are them 3" or 6" parallels? Your lever and Wooden base turned out perfect. Can't wait to hear it sing to us. Sounds like that isn't to far away.
Nice job as always, Matt
ksouers said:Moving right along there, MB!
How did you like using the 1/16 inch end mill? 2 or 4 flute?
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