On 01/05/2012 08:39 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> Love the "clamp" mod on your cutting head!<VBSEG> >> >> Mark >> > Chuckle. BTDT, but needed something just a hair more substantial for > milling mortis and tennon joints with my micromill on steroids: > > <http://http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene/emc/17.html> > > The 4 bolts on the right are tapped into holes drilled in the front face of > the Z sled casting, and once the HF die grinder was fitted, it looks like > this: > > <http://http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene/emc/18.html> > > Which almost hides the mill from that angle, and also shows the white ash > jig that holds the stick the tenon will be carved on. I used it that way, > but it really needs another skyhook& screen door spring to hold up the > additional weight, the off-center loading on the sleds ways tends to make > the sled want to move in 2 thou increments unless I drown it with Vactra. > > Also faintly visible to the left is my custom made boring bar mounted on > the 7x10 that carved the saddles in the clamp around the die grinder, after > the ridges on the die grinder nose housing were laid back flat with a 14" > mill bastard file. That boring bar is actually a groove cut in the end of > a piece of 5/8" cold roll, with a Glanz brand 1/4" indexable boring bar > driven into the groove with a 3 pounder, and superglued to be sure. > Unforch, the saddle on that 7x10 is about tapped out, literally as I had to > replace the compound slider when I stripped out the threads in the top of > it while boring a previous project, the coupling housing& motor mount for > my A/B/C axis rotary table. I was boring a nearly 2" diameter hole well > over 3" deep. The 7x10 complained, a lot! The end result of that is at: > > <http://http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene/emc/4.html> > > I think they would call that shade tree engineering, but the mortis's& > tenons it cut fit better than any I had cut by hand before. Don't like the > fit? Tweak the code! > > Cheers, Gene >
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