Greetings all; I have rx'd a 6" scale with a remote readout, made by Shars, or at least resold by Shars, with the intention of putting it on my Sheldon's tailstock. But this looks like it needs a flat surface, which I can make on the milling machine, to mount the anchored end of it, and of course a collar clamped on the end of the plunger to move the other end.
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. To complicate that, someone back in the mists of time put a collar with calibrated markings in front of the handwheel, whose graduation markings do not fit any known measurement standard I know about, making it worthless to keep track of how far it has been cranked out. But the locking thumbscrew of this collar will have to go as its way too long to clear the beam. NBD, but... I've considered shortening the beam to match the expected travel, probably by using a 1/8" tool in the mill as a saw blade. How likely is that to wreck it? So, I'm looking for inspiration in the form of some pix of how you folks have solved this problem. URL's, or the pix in my inbox is fine. Thanks everybody. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
