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Locked HOW TO KILL A TOPIC Re: [7x12MiniLathe] ANSWER TO GUIDE RULE - OT 11
The title is clear. I'm fed off this useless topic. Thank you. _._,_._,_
Started by Pierre-Raymond Rondelle @ · Most recent @
Locked ANSWER TO GUIDE RULE 26
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Started by Jacques Savard @ · Most recent @
4Jaw on hand drill 5
Here is a 4 jaw chuck on a hand drill. Looks like fun and trip say to hospital staff .
Started by davesmith1800 @ · Most recent @
Stuart Score steam engine. 3
I scored a Score at a recent auction. The materials kit is complete. It is missing all the paperwork. I can get most of the information from the 10H kit. But, I need the section on the crank shaft and the main body. Every thing else is just 10H duplicates. Can someone please assist? Howard Garner Pickens, SC
Started by earlyrail @ · Most recent @
Mini 4 jaw chuck 5
Just a new 4 jaw chuck for rotary table 48mm dia. Nice size for small parts. It is not turning just light work on the 3" rotary table. Dave
Started by davesmith1800 @ · Most recent @
Used pricing 10
I've upgraded to dedicated CNC machines and was looking for suggestions on how to price mini-lathe (Grizzly G8688) and mini-mill (Harbor Freight) for sale. Used but well taken care of. Fully adjusted. Each has a fair amount of aftermarket accessories such as MT#2 chuck, A2Z QC toolpost, ER32 collet chuck/collets, 4-jaw chuck --- power feed, belt-drive, air spring, rotary table (plus all original parts. Stand/table for each. I was thinking of starting out at 60% of Grizzly/HF new price plus 50% of new cost for the accessories. Is this realistic? In the end it's whatever the local market (West Coast USA) will support. There is a bone stock G8688 on FB marketplace with no accessories and some minimal tooling (worse condition than mine) for $1000 which strikes me as "highly optimistic".
Started by Tony Jones @ · Most recent @
Clock Bulders and moon phase gear
I just purchased new rotary table and remembered that clock builders always what a 59 tooth gear made. This can be done on a mini lathe and a 36 worm gear 3" rotary table. Found a index chart use bs plates
Started by davesmith1800 @
OS Rotary Table 3
I purchased a 3" Rotary Table at Christmas and have diving chart. Now looking at indexing.
Started by davesmith1800 @ · Most recent @
Armoire's machine shop the new frontier 11
Any do this Machine shop in Armoire's? This probably the new frontier for hobby. 1) Low cost 2) Space saving 3) Easy to move 4) Low cost in materials [COLOR="#669900"] I first look at mini as just a ???? After for over year it is nice. I changed because needing to downsize. With a few upgrades like a good tool post made great lathe. [/COLOR] Then later talking to son lacking space. So then we look hobby Armoire. He looking at other hobbies. Has any one did this or seen done? Dave
Started by davesmith1800 @ · Most recent @
Porta Band stand 5
Hey folks , I have this old Milwaukee porta band that has ben hanging out since i retired . It's a lot heavier that I remember them being . Have any of you come up with a bench or even a free standing setup that will let ya use a porta band like a cut off saw . I'm looking for ideas, pics , things that didn't work . thanks animal
Started by mike allen @ · Most recent @
LED Machine Lighting Sale 7
Menards (in the USA) today had the flexible LED goose neck lights on sale (7W) for $3.99 each. I just ordered 20 of them for my shop equipment. They are selling fast so I thought I would pass it along in case come one here is looking for equipment lighting.. https://www.menards.com/main/lighting-ceiling-fans/indoor-lighting/lamps/table-lamps/flexible-gooseneck-led-lamp/68769g/p-1642874340851661-c-7497.htm
Started by ram50v8efi @ · Most recent @
Sieg C3 vs SC3 29
Contemplating buying a mini lathe for home use. Is it worth spending the extra money to buy a SC3 as opposed to a C3 ?.
Started by Old Boilermaker @ · Most recent @
Grizzly G4003 - modifications to RideTheGearTrain software to accommodate this lathe #lead-screw #threading
Grizzly G4003 Lathe-modifications to RideTheGearTrain (free online to calculate the change gears needed to cut a thread. I had quite a busy time in the days leading up to Christmas. I had contacts from a couple of people who needed their lathe gearboxes added to the program (RideTheGearTrain). One lathe had crazy features I had not heard of before. It was a Chinese-made Grizzly G4003 (2005) model sold by the American Grizzly company. The spindle shaft is 16mm and the leadscrew shaft is 19mm, so they have two sets of change gears. This meant that I had to modify the program to handle it. It would have been a huge job to re-write the whole program, but not long ago I added a filter system. The user enters ALL their change gears initially, but they also click the button, currently labeled "Exclude Large gears", and here the user can enter a separate list of gears permitted for each position (or stud) in the gear train. If the program produces results with gears that are NOT permitted in any position, those results are deleted (filtered out) and only the reduced list of results is displayed. I added this filtering system a few months ago to prevent the display of results where a gear is too large to fit on the machine. A user had this problem. So the user enters a size limit (by number of teeth) for any position they want restricted. For example on some lathes there is a casting near the stud gear that prevents large gears from being fitted. If the size limit for the stud gear is 60 teeth, then the user enters 60 as the maximum size for the stud gear. Results using larger gears are filtered out. An advancement on this idea was to actually measure the distance between studs on the banjo, and from the DP (Diametral Pitch of the gears) the size of gears can be calculated. When there are gears on two 'studs' (or shafts) on the banjo, the radius of each gear is proportional to the number of teeth on that gear. The space required is the sum of the two radii. We can use the sum of the teeth on the two gears and from that calculate whether the two gears will fit between the two studs. If they don't fit, the filter program will remove the results from the list of results to be displayed. This method is rather complicated and I doubt whether anyone uses it. I haven't had any feedback about it. I did not have my Boxford in Tennessee when I wrote this. Now I am in New Zealand I could measure my lathe and see if it works. It probably isn't foolproof because fitting one pair of large gears on the banjo will limit how much room is available for the next pair. We could add up the teeth of ALL the gears on the gear train, but that would only work if the gears are arranged in s straight line, which they are not. Some more thought may be required. Going back to the weird Grizzly lathe, it has another quirk. It is fitted with a 91/86 compound pair for imperial to metric conversion. It is designed in such a way that this gear cannot be flipped over. RideTheGearTrain automatically tries flipping over compound pairs and it is quite surprising to me that it produces nearly as many results with the conversion gear flipped. A conversion gear with a ratio approximating 1.27 is fairly close to 1.25 which happens to be quite handy! So, how can we prevent RideTheGearTrain from displaying results with this gear flipped? Easy. Just use the filter system to tell the program to filter out any results where the gear in position Compound 2 (comp2) is larger than 87. Now with this filter system we can accommodate this peculiar lathe. Now I understand better why it is done this way. The gears designed to go on the leadscrew shaft have a long extended boss on one side - like a built-in spacer. If you put it with the spaced to the right, the gear engages with the metric conversion gear. If you flip the leadscrew gear over, so that the spacer is on the left, it now meshes with the gear on the compound pair which acts as an idler. This is used for cutting imperial threads. These leadscrew gears with the extensions cannot be used as stud gears. So, this lathe comes w
Started by Evan @
Damage to electronic devices as raised about Digital Electronic Vernier Calipers. 9
Dear All, I know this is partially off the original topic. But the possibility that certain workshop equipment may affect or even damage everyday equipment, viz a flat screen TV etc., seems very important. So I hope you will understand my request, as I have no knowledge of such matters. Thus may I have some detailed advice. I am not into Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding, (as mentioned, it’s technically called Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, GTAW - thank you for the info.) I only undertake a very limited amount of Metal Inert Gas (MIG) and Gas, plus I did do some ‘old style’ Arc welding some years ago. So, presumably as it says (TIG) has a non eroding electrode. (Plus an inert consumable rod.) Then the TIG Arc causes/releases a large amount of unrefined/uncontolled Radio Frequency (RF) signals. This then swamps and damages any electronics in the vicinity. Am I correct? A simple Y or N will be more than OK, thankyou. The power of the TIG arc (welder) and the distance to the piece of electronic equipment, increases or decreases the risk of damage. Again correct? (Presumably the inverse square law applies. So the manufacturer could(?) give guidance about the risks?) Does that mean MIG is not so bad, as it has a sacrificial electrode? Again, I have no idea. Anyone know? Plus - Thanks for the info on the solar storms. Very interesting. (Everyday is a day at school, even when you have seen a lot of Summers.) Thanks in anticipation, David Williams (From across the Pond. Nr Oxford.) On 9 Dec 2024, at 20:59, mike allen <animal@...> wrote: ? Welders & flat screen TV's too . I had a bud that spent many thousand $$ on a Lincoln water cooled TIG welder . First time he used it took out his fairly new flatscreen TV . Good thing he was between wife's when that happened . animal On 12/9/24 11:24 AM, Bruce J via groups.io wrote: Well it’s not just welders and LED lights… "SOLAR STORMS ARE DRIVING FARMERS CRAZY: Planting season is a hectic time for farmers. For many, it means working through the night using GPS-guided tractors to plant thousands of acres in a short period of time. The season was in full swing on May 10, 2024, when the biggest solar storm in decades struck Earth. "Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed," says Elaine Ramstad, a Spaceweather.com reader and aurora chaser who helps out on a family farm in Northern Minnesota. "All my cousins called me during the May 10th storm to tell me that 'my auroras' were driving them crazy while they were planting.” SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids spaceweather.com <favicon1.ico> Probably not Johannes’ problem, though…:-) My shop is lit by LED bulbs or fixtures I got at Costco 4 or 5 years back to replace the old flickering fluorescent ones; but I haven’t noticed any issues in use with my calipers until the batteries get low, which produces just those kinds of weird issues. On Dec 9, 2024, at 4:40 AM, flyfishingdude9 via groups.io <flyfishingdude9@...> wrote: When I GTAW the HF start really messes with all of my DRO's, and digital calipers/micrometers. ? It turns them on, turns them off, the displays show erroneous readings. I thought they were possessed until I figured out it was the TIG's HF start that was causing the problem. ? -- Bruce Johnson The less a man knows about how sausages and laws are made, the easier it is to steal his vote and give him botulism.
Started by DAVID WILLIAMS @ · Most recent @
Digital Electronic Vernier Caliper 23
I can not work without many "Digital Electronic Vernier Caliper" in my workshop. However, they are always hiding them self when I am doing my job. Lately I have discovered that they are missing the numbers on the display. Both old and new ones. Suddenly the numbers are being negative or shutting down. I am blaming a Comunicacion tower not far from the building. Someone's that has a good advice for me? Best from Johannes
Started by Johannes @ · Most recent @
Three Jaw Chuck / Spindle Bore Opening 15
Recently have started to use my little ole lathe. My machining background stems from “repair” as opposed to “fabricating” and so one of the first things I did was acquire a 4-jaw chuck. After having the lathe for near 5 years now, I discovered the bore of the 3-jaw chuck is smaller than the lathe spindle opening. I did not have a reason to notice this discrepancy before because I hardly ever used the 3-jaw chuck until lately for some repetitive work. Is this something we just have to accept as an attribute of the machine, or is there a three jaw chuck available with a bore opening as large as the spindle opening? John
Started by atkinson.railroad@... @ · Most recent @
Headstock indexer 7
Catching up on my electronic subscriptions the Oct 2024 issue of Model Engineers Workshop has a pretty interesting diy indexer for the mini lathe . This is a English Magazine , but it's available at most book stores that have a fair sized magazine dept . I subscribe to this & read online . It seems they have more projects in one month than the other 2 mags do in half a year . They should be having their black Friday subscription drive going on about now . https://www.classicmagazines.co.uk/issues/MEW?source=Digital22
Started by mike allen @ · Most recent @
BlackFriday hobby mag sale
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested https://pocketmags.com/us/magazine-offers/blackfriday-scale-modelling?utm_campaign=1667169_7-pkmg-black-friday-scale-modelling-25112024-us&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotmailer&dm_i=4Q80,ZQE9,5GIPSW,4MGQ9,1
Started by mike allen @
I MADE IT TO 70 off subject 11
Yesterday I turned 70 Off subject sorry this has no off subject thread Here what happen just this month & a little background I have not told any here 2 weeks ago I was in the emergency with 103.1° temperature. I had blood infection. Most that would be no big deal. Most would be no big deal. But in 2009 I was diagnosed with stage 4 colan cancer I was told to go the emergency over 100.5°. I want to diet to live longer so, had few of all green diet. So ask oncologist how long do people live with my diagnose she said no makes pass 10 years. I did ask two doctors and said samething, I also ask American Cancer twice they said ther stop hearing after 9 years. Now it is over 15 years hard for me real know how to feel or how to plan anything. I post the diet om America Cancer Please post I hope helps others [URL]https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/327889/what-to-eat-to-live-longer#latest[/URL] [/QUOTE]
Started by davesmith1800 @ · Most recent @
Lipstick on a pig? 18
Some time back I started working on a DRO scheme for my lathe cross slide. There's not a lot of room on top so many of the approaches I saw had one disadvantage or another. As a result I came up with a scheme to put the DRO underneath the lathe and used a "C" shaped piece to transfer the cross slide motion beneath the lathe. I had an iGaging DRO for the purpose because I bought two when I was working on my Z axis DRO setup, so I already had what I needed. Or so I thought. Unfortunately, the iGaging design uses a sliding contact with a fairly strong spring, which required a fair amount of force to overcome. DRO mounting schemes that put the mounting system inline with the sensor aren't affected by this, but my C shaped piece would deflect under the force enough to cause about a .005" error. I tried several ways to stiffen up the system but that was about the best I could manage. So I decided to modify my DRO to reduce the amount of force needed to move the rule through the sensor. This involved making a replacement base out of aluminum and replacing the sliding contact with bearings. I used aluminum because the rule MUST be connected to the sensor's internal ground in order to work correctly. My first iteration used flanged bearings because the rule needed to be constrained on two of its axes, but the flanges rubbed on the rule too much, which caused erratic variations in the force needed to slide the rule back and forth. So I replaced the flanged bearings with conventional ones -- but then had to add bearings to the bottom and top assemblies to constrain the rule on its vertical axis. At this point I debated on whether it really was worthwhile to continue my attempt to use an iGaging DRO, but since I already had a fair amount of time invested in this thing I forged on. This is known as the "sunk cost" syndrome, and I admit to falling victim to it. So after buying more bearings and spending more machining time on the base (and 3D printing a cover, also with bearing pockets) I got this: The top photo shows the scale, sensor, aluminum base and printed cover. The side bearings are 3x10mm and the top/bottom are 3x6. And here are photos of the mounting scheme: I used a "T" extrusion in an attempt to stiffen up my "C" assembly but it didn't improve things much. The 3D printed stuff was done with an older Ender 3 I bought from a friend. This is the first project I've used it for. The pieces were designed using openSCAD. Not shown: all the pieces that had something wrong with them :). The scale passes through a slot I milled in the vertical piece. At first the (re) assembled DRO had a terrible EMI problem. I added some shielding on the back of the sensor board, which helped a teensy bit. It turns out that the main problem was the spacing between the bottom of the sensor board and scale. I had used some 3mm brass washers to make sure the board didn't rub against the scale, but that turned out to be a mistake. I removed them and suddenly the noise problem disappeared. The board still isn't rubbing so that was a solution without a problem. I was sure that the DRO would misbehave once it was installed and the motor controller was turned on, but so far so good. I checked the DRO vs the dial and they are very close. That was a big unknown, since I wasn't sure if the spacing between the scale and sensor board would affect the readings. Lipstick on a pig? Well, probably. If I had known what I was going to encounter along the way I think I would have just bit the bullet and found myself a DRO that would work right out of the box....
Started by Mark Kimball @ · Most recent @
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