On 12.07.17 20:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > However at 6" of travel (and closer to 9" overall by the time the beam > mounting brackets are added) for its overall length, thats about 4.5" > too long w/o quite a bit of it sticking out past the plunger. Because > that puts part of it well past a live center, I'm a bit spooky about it > being easily damaged should something give way at speed.
Rather than risk ruining the scale, what about making a short flat on the back of the tailstock, affixing an Alu offset block wide enough to generously clear the handwheel radius, then extending the handwheel hub to bring your knuckles clear of the skinning device? By the time beam mounting brackets are added to the Alu block, you're probably out past the handwheel radius pretty quickly. What I've usually seen on tailstocks is a digital caliper with the movable jaw clamped to the tailstock, and the fixed one clamped to the spindle. If a 6" caliper is used, that's the finished length, as all clamping is on the jaws. It's also quick to replace if there's only one clamp screw on each jaw. Mind you, there's nothing active in the scale, AIUI. If the one you have is like the calipers, then it should be quite feasible to put a cutoff wheel through it without loss of function on the rest of the length. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
