On Monday 08 August 2016 23:08:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 08 August 2016 20:57:04 Cecil Thomas wrote: > > Gene, > > You don't have to use Phase II. All AXA or 100 series holders are > > interchangeable. You can get the the holders here for $10 or $11 if > > you want the groove in the bottom so it will hold a boring bar > > securely. > > > > http://cdcotools.com/ > > > > I'm pretty sure the holders you got were AXA or 100 series but check > > to be sure. > > > > Cecil > > I believe they are 100 series. Site is bookmarked for when I am ready > to make real swarf. That will be half a year down the log at my > present rate of progress, too much stuff to carve from scratch and too > many other things to manage around the house. > > OTOH, progress is being made, I found a pair of 1 horse 3 phase motors > for a 60 dollar bill that my fake inverter runs fairly well, so it > will be a lot rarer that I need to use the noisy backgears. They > appear to be happy at 20 hz, or 180hz. I ordered up 2 sets of > bearings and replaced them in the noisier of the two, sweet & quiet > now. > > Thanks Cecil, take care now. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Continueing on the leadup to the Sheldon conversion, I needed to find and kill a loose saddle that wasn't, and proceeded to make up the tapered gib kit that Rick Kruger published several yonks ago. But miss-judged the thickness of the taper gib by about 10 or 12 thou, so rather than warp it by carving it anew, I took 15 thou off the top of the gib clamp. Quite a bit too much but trial assembly and exercise showed the major contact was at the big end, and there was enough play in the small end to let the saddle tilt up and down about 9 thou on the left side depending on which way the z screw was pushing it.
So I've been filing it with the file laying flat, with the huge majority of the pressure against the big end as it was pushed the length of a 14" mill bastard. So yesterday afternoon and this day after both the weed eater and my legs were about done. my filing has now reduced that jumping around to about .0005", pretty good for the little monster. So now, repeat on the rear one over the next day or so, but all it has to do is contain the up and down from cutting forces. FWIW, this also lets me see there is some way wear near the headstock. OTOH I've had this beast since in the later 90's, so I shan't bitch too loud. Stuff thats worked way beyond its designed work envelope tends to do that. And this thing has been rode hard and put away wet lots of times. :) With that slop under control, I may be able to carve better threads, so I'll be able to get back to work on my G33 wrapper. Gotta do that just to make the clamping nut for the extension from the ball screw to the front of the saddle handle. Then of course build a rear of saddle motor mount for the X motor, which will also be the thrust barrier for the x screw. Thats where it is now, anchored to the taper jig, which is coming off since the computer can do that with considerably more artistry. Yet to be considered is some sort of a telescoping cover for the X screw in a probably vain attempt to keep swarf out of it. And thats the news from Weston on a Wednesday about dinner time. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
