I have a dividing head inherited from my late machinist friend, it uses gears to index the head, I have found it easy to make new gears on a 3d printer, I can make plates with just the number of detents that I need for a job, so if I need 3 spaces, then I just print a new 'gear' of the same diameter, with just the 3 detents, the gears print out fairly quickly so I build up new indexes every time I need one.
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Date 17/11/2024 04:11:00
Subject Re: [Unimat] DB/SL Dividing Attachment
They also had a 24 tooth wheel, so they had 4 different wheel.
?Jeff
Hi Dick:
Perhaps you
could add a protractor between the chuck and the indexer. Then
if you know the angle you are shooting for you will know you are
close to right.
Carl.
On 11/16/2024 7:27 PM, OldToolmaker via
groups.io wrote:
I have the original DBSL dividing attachment with 3 dividing
wheels or gears. There is no good way of knowing what space or
notch I am in as I can¡¯t see the notch. I think this makes it
very hard to know where I am. This is a short coming of this
dividing system. I have considered making a stand alone dividing
head.
Has anyone in this group had a similars experience with this
system? If so I would appreciate it if you could share how you
work around this short coming.
Thanks
Dick
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