Hi all
I finally took the plunge today and overcame my fear and made a start, as the camshaft seemed the most daunting I decided to have a go at that first, I only have Sherline machines and I wanted to use Steve Huck offset turning method but the lathe is so small I don't think it would fit, I ended up turning the blank then forming the lobes with the mill and rotary table, I have metric machines so first had to do some converting, it all seemed to go OK thanks to Steve's excellent spread sheet, it was far easier than I thought infact it gets rather boring, it took me about four hours to set up and cut the cam blank, then about five hours on the mill to form the lobes
I finally took the plunge today and overcame my fear and made a start, as the camshaft seemed the most daunting I decided to have a go at that first, I only have Sherline machines and I wanted to use Steve Huck offset turning method but the lathe is so small I don't think it would fit, I ended up turning the blank then forming the lobes with the mill and rotary table, I have metric machines so first had to do some converting, it all seemed to go OK thanks to Steve's excellent spread sheet, it was far easier than I thought infact it gets rather boring, it took me about four hours to set up and cut the cam blank, then about five hours on the mill to form the lobes