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Lathe Ways Form
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Raw materials
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I used some polymorph (black) to
capture the shape of the SIEG
7xN mini-lathe ways, then oiled
it ...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2008
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Here are the raw materials for
the lathe carriage stop (as
currently designed). From the
top, ...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2008
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Optical Punch
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Optical Punch
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One of my first home projects,
whilst I was getting familiar
with the lathe and mill, was
this ...
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Uploaded on Aug 15, 2008
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Another view of the punch,under
a flash.
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Uploaded on Aug 15, 2008
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Optical Punch
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Optical Punch
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Here you can see how the punch
works. One of the optics has a
cross-hair, and the other has ...
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Uploaded on Aug 15, 2008
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The bottom of the punch. As you
can see, only one hole
completely penetrates. After
taking this ...
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Uploaded on Aug 14, 2008
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Optical Punch
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Optical Punch
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Another view of the punch with
all the parts seated for
storage.
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Uploaded on Aug 14, 2008
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Another view of the three
business parts of the punch.
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Uploaded on Aug 14, 2008
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Electric crucible?
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Radius cutter
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This was in a box of random
electro-mechanical bits and
pieces I picked up from a
surplus place. I ...
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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2008
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I'm making an optical punch for
practice (see John Moran's
page), but I don't -- yet --
have a ...
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Uploaded on Jul 7, 2008
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Lathe axis reference
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Lathe axis reference
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This shows the travel nut for
the alignment fixture, as well
as the top and bottom locking
nuts for ...
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Uploaded on Jul 2, 2008
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This is a tool for the lathe,
but was mostly made on the mill.
I don't know why, but I kinda
went ...
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Uploaded on Jul 2, 2008
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Lathe axis reference
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Boring bar adapter
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Here you can see the brass knob
locking the rider in place on
the base, the stand locked to
the ...
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Uploaded on Jul 2, 2008
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Boring bar adapter. 0.5"
O.D., 0.375" I.D. Mates my
3/8" boring bars with ...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2008
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Arbor and slitting saw
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0.5" arbor
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Here's the arbor with a 3"
diameter 0.0625" slitting
saw mounted.
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2008
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I needed something to let me
mount a diamond saw with a
0.5" shank hole, and it
seemed like a ...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2008
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Apron chip guard
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Mini-mill DRO problems
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As have so many others before
me, I machined a chip guard to
keep swarf out of the ...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2008
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Showing the narrowing
left-to-right gap between the
table and the scale. The
encoder would bind ...
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Uploaded on May 28, 2008
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