On Thursday 11 August 2016 13:29:13 andy pugh wrote: > On 11 August 2016 at 17:52, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Andy. The smaller one, at 13.5mm, still seems big for my > > table, but we'll check. > > Smaller ones exist, but you would need to find them. Mine are 12mm > http://www.vertex-tw.com.tw/products/products_list.php?cid=52 > > > They look handier than bottled beer. Have you > > experienced any workpiece warpage ( up in the center ) due to the > > pressure of the edge grip? > > I think that any part thin enough to be warped by the pressure would > not be stiff enough to grip. > > > I also see others for sale where the steel and brass have been > > interchanged for brass bases and steel rockers. Advantage, one or > > the other? > > No idea. Mine are steel all-over, but with black-oxide clamps and > TiN{?} finish bases. > > > This would I'd think, leave an oil holding pattern in the surface > > that duplicates the scraped pattern. That would sure beat the near > > optically flat surfaces the front one now has and would likely be > > faster in accomplishing that task. Worth the effort? > > For a lathe you intend to use for one more job then replace with the > Sheldon? No.
It will no doubt have several jobs to do before I put wheels under the electronics to use them to drive the Sheldon for good. I suspect they will get carried back and forth several times however. Which means that at some point I'll have to figure out not only where to put them out of swarfs way, but to build/buy an arm suitable for carrying the keyboard, mouse and monitor, probably anchored to the chip pan, one corner or the other. Ideally something with several degrees of freedom so I can position it close for setups, then far away for running the job. Trying to keep swarf out of the keyboard is frustration enough I should have just stuck with wood carving. I have a metallic roof over the little monsters keyboard and mouse area, but it doesn't help enough. I bought some custom skins for the keyboards, but they cause stuck keys too. Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. Sigh, now I could use a cooler day or 6. I hurt both me and the weed eater yesterday in 96F heat. Both have recovered now I think, at least the weed eater still has normal compression now, and coffee is going on thru like it should again. ;-) Fortunately the garage as AC'd. So the work on the clamp can proceed once I find a round tuit. I need a smaller 4x.7mm tap, by the time I've threaded that hole deep enough, the thread acts bell mouthed. Or the head isn't trammed well enough. I'll recheck that first, before I drill & tap this hole. 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
