Bernd
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I needed to clean up a number 4 Morse taper on a drill arbor. Since my 9" X 19" Grizzley dosen't have a taper attachment I had to come up with a way to be able to clean it up. The compound slide only travels about 3" on this small lathe. I needed about 4.5" inches of travel. So I built one all out of aluminum to try out my concept. I hope to build a much better one latter when time permits. The following description and pics might give you an idea of your own.
First a bit of history as to why I would even attempt this. I make motor plates for a guy that builds drag race cars. The motor plate gets bolted between the motor and transmission so it can be tied soildly to the frame rail. With rubber mounts and the horsepower these engines produce, it would just rip the motor right out of the chassi. Here's what one of those plate looks like.
The holes are laid out to a master template, center punched and then 3/8" pilot holes are drilled. Two .500" dia dowel holes are drill one each side of the big hole. This lines up the engine, plate and transmission. There are six 3/8" holes for bolts to bolt the whole mess together. The 3" hole on the right is for the starter, the smaller one, lower and left of the starter hole, is for bolting the converter to the flywheel and the large hole is for clearnce when everything is bolted together. The two cutouts on the bottom corners is for the frame rails where the plate sets on. The plates are about 18" tall by 22" wide by 1/4" thick. All the holes are done on my Grizzly bench drill. The two smaller holes are done with a hole saw while the large center hole is done with a treepan tool I made. I had no problems making the plates with the equipment I have.
But... now an engineering change came along. The plates are to be 24" wide and 20" high and the large center hole is now to be 14.5" in dia. Fine and dandy, but I can't cut the center hole because I only have 7" from center of the drill chuck to the column on my drill press. So I'll do them on the Buffalo drill press since I have 10.5" from chuck center to column. Only thing is I don't have a #4 Morse taper of anything. A couple of freinds helped out by giving me some beat up old arbors. They needed some bad TLC and that's how the idea of making a taper attachment for the lathe came about. It's crude but proves that it will work. I hope to refine it later.
Here's two pics of one of the beat up arbors I started to turn.
I made a taper plate so I could line up the attachment on the lathe cross slide.
This model lathe has a nice flat table to mount things on so I made a flat plate to hold the movable slide. I first bolted an angle plate I made using a 5" sine plate set to the (what I had figured to be the proper height) proper height. In the picture of the angle plate and sine plate you can see the angle the way the holes are lined up.
I zeroed in the straight side of the angle plate and then pushed the attachment up next to the angled portion and bolted it down nice and tight. I was pretty close after taking a skim cut. I took one more heaveir cut and measured the angle. I was off by about .020" in the 4.5" length. After checking my figures I found I was off on those also. But I managed to save the second arbor and that will get used for making the next part of this adventure in motor plate manufacturing. ;D So stayed tuned. I'll make another fixture that will use this arbor in the Buffalo drill press with my Sherline headstock attached to it.
Bernd
First a bit of history as to why I would even attempt this. I make motor plates for a guy that builds drag race cars. The motor plate gets bolted between the motor and transmission so it can be tied soildly to the frame rail. With rubber mounts and the horsepower these engines produce, it would just rip the motor right out of the chassi. Here's what one of those plate looks like.
The holes are laid out to a master template, center punched and then 3/8" pilot holes are drilled. Two .500" dia dowel holes are drill one each side of the big hole. This lines up the engine, plate and transmission. There are six 3/8" holes for bolts to bolt the whole mess together. The 3" hole on the right is for the starter, the smaller one, lower and left of the starter hole, is for bolting the converter to the flywheel and the large hole is for clearnce when everything is bolted together. The two cutouts on the bottom corners is for the frame rails where the plate sets on. The plates are about 18" tall by 22" wide by 1/4" thick. All the holes are done on my Grizzly bench drill. The two smaller holes are done with a hole saw while the large center hole is done with a treepan tool I made. I had no problems making the plates with the equipment I have.
But... now an engineering change came along. The plates are to be 24" wide and 20" high and the large center hole is now to be 14.5" in dia. Fine and dandy, but I can't cut the center hole because I only have 7" from center of the drill chuck to the column on my drill press. So I'll do them on the Buffalo drill press since I have 10.5" from chuck center to column. Only thing is I don't have a #4 Morse taper of anything. A couple of freinds helped out by giving me some beat up old arbors. They needed some bad TLC and that's how the idea of making a taper attachment for the lathe came about. It's crude but proves that it will work. I hope to refine it later.
Here's two pics of one of the beat up arbors I started to turn.
I made a taper plate so I could line up the attachment on the lathe cross slide.
This model lathe has a nice flat table to mount things on so I made a flat plate to hold the movable slide. I first bolted an angle plate I made using a 5" sine plate set to the (what I had figured to be the proper height) proper height. In the picture of the angle plate and sine plate you can see the angle the way the holes are lined up.
I zeroed in the straight side of the angle plate and then pushed the attachment up next to the angled portion and bolted it down nice and tight. I was pretty close after taking a skim cut. I took one more heaveir cut and measured the angle. I was off by about .020" in the 4.5" length. After checking my figures I found I was off on those also. But I managed to save the second arbor and that will get used for making the next part of this adventure in motor plate manufacturing. ;D So stayed tuned. I'll make another fixture that will use this arbor in the Buffalo drill press with my Sherline headstock attached to it.
Bernd