Greetings all; I am being attacked by UPS and USPS today. I got the metal I'd ordered today, a 1/4", 12x48 sheet of 6061t6, a 14" piece of 1/2x1 brass for steady rest shoes, and a pair of 1/2" hex brass bars to make cathead & spider bolts out of. Measuring the barrel, I'll need to round up some 2" ID pipe about 11" long with 1/4" walls to make that cat head.
I did get the end of the action squared up, and shaved a couple thou off the face of the bolt to square that up. And with the 6061 plate I can make the dro mount for the tailstock. Would have made more progress but it was 107F in the shop when I pulled the door open with the hex brass in my hand, but I believe it will be easier and faster to make those screws in the bigger lathe with its 3 jaw chuck than fool with TLM putting the 3 jaw back on it, thats a pita trying to get those 6mm nuts re-started on the studs sticking thru the flange on TLM's spindle. Got about a dozen of those screws to make. 4 ea, 3 different lengths. I got a universal arbor 2 or 3 days back, and a 5" diameter, 6000 grit diamond disk that should serve as a tool sharpener came in today too. Results TBD. Still waiting on the new live center. Anybody with some 75F weather to spare, I sure could use a train load of it here in WV. My icemaker is being overworked. I do have one problem with the r-pi 3b and LCNC. The arrow keys, left-right, work every place else but in the MDI cmdline box. So editing a line called back has to be done by clicking after the recalled line, then backspacing to where the change needs to be, and retyping the rest of the line erased by the backspace key. This has been a problem for the last 7 or 8 updates. Works normally on the rest of the x86 machines. Swapping keyboards has no effect. BTDT. 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
