Hi Gang:

In Model Engineer Magazine one guy use a Kitchen Colander as a divider, I think it had some odd prime spacing like 29.

Carl.

On 3/8/2020 7:28 PM, Keith S. Angus via Groups.Io wrote:

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 07:55 PM, Mehmood wrote:

I want to make a set of 10-spoke wheels

I saw someone doing this at a show long ago. He made a disc that fitted in the tyre, then cut the spokes (really the gaps)in the discs using the saw attachment. After cleaning up he then put the spokes into the tyre and soldered them together. These were loco drivers in 0 scale, so a bit bigger, but it worked. As for the ring having 180 teeth, well, why not? I often look at straight knurled and ribbed items that we throw away, bottle tops for example, that would serve as divisions for setting out. I would print out, or draw using school geometry, a disc of card to put behind the blanks. For the tyres, I have an H0 RP25 form tool you could try. I've never got around to using it, but somebody should - all I have to do is find it!

Keith

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 07:55 PM, Mehmood wrote:

I want to make a set of 10-spoke wheels

I saw someone doing this at a show long ago. He made a disc that fitted in the tyre, then cut the spokes (really the gaps)in the discs using the saw attachment. After cleaning up he then put the spokes into the tyre and soldered them together. These were loco drivers in 0 scale, so a bit bigger, but it worked. As for the ring having 180 teeth, well, why not? I often look at straight knurled and ribbed items that we throw away, bottle tops for example, that would serve as divisions for setting out. I would print out, or draw using school geometry, a disc of card to put behind the blanks. For the tyres, I have an H0 RP25 form tool you could try. I've never got around to using it, but somebody should - all I have to do is find it!

Keith

I don't have a dividing head but I want to make a set of 10-spoke wheels (outside diameter 11mm plus flange).? The spokes only require visual, cosmetic precision, not mechanical precision (the crankpin locations do require mechanical precision but that's not an issue).? I counted the knurling notches around my Emco 3-jaw chuck and there are 180.? Not sure if this is a coincidence, but it therefore occurred to me to cut my wheel-blank in the 3 jaw chuck along with its axle hole, then use the chuck as a dividing head if I could concoct a simple and reasonably stable way of holding the chuck by locking the adjusting ring by its knurls such that I could unlock it, turn it through 18 notches and cut or just mark and start each spoke cutting into the blank.? Has anyone done anything similar??

I was thinking I would do it in the horizontal, lathe, position using a locking mechanism made up of a saddle that sits on the way bars, probably cut semi-circular or V groove to rest on them.? The saddle would embrace say the bottom quarter of the knurled ring of the 3-jaw chuck, and embedded in it would be one or maybe two movable teeth that would grip the knurled ring, wedged into place by e.g. a tapered rod through a hole tangential to the saddle and ring and pressing the foot of the locking tooth into the knurled ring.? It would not need to take much strain, it only serves to hold the chuck in an assured position while I mark or cut the work along the spindle axis.

Currently I am anticipating reusing wheel treads made commercially, that would fit tightly around the spokes when done and soldered into position, but if this is successful I'd try my hand at turning the tyres (wheel tread+flange) as well.

On Mar 6, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Martin P. via Groups.Io <mdupreno1@...> wrote:

I can only look at the first picture. same on site.



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From: Alfred Fickensher <alfickjr@...>
To: unimat <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 4:42 pm
Subject: [Unimat] Anybody remember this item?

Dummy me, I grabbed some screen shots of the bracket and post but no grab of the listing with the seller’s name. I’d kind of like to buy one if possible. I think I remember seeing mention of this on this group a year ago (almost) and then went to ebay to find the listing.

Thanks hopefully,
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alf
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On Mar 6, 2020, at 16:44, Jim Novack <jnwoofer@...> wrote:

?EBay item: 202251420815

Jim

On Mar 6, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Martin P. via Groups.Io <mdupreno1@...> wrote:

I can only look at the first picture. same on site.



-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Fickensher <alfickjr@...>
To: unimat <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 4:42 pm
Subject: [Unimat] Anybody remember this item?

Dummy me, I grabbed some screen shots of the bracket and post but no grab of the listing with the seller’s name. I’d kind of like to buy one if possible. I think I remember seeing mention of this on this group a year ago (almost) and then went to ebay to find the listing.

Thanks hopefully,
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alf
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Hello His:

It is easy. Turn the scroll until the jaws are free. They are numbered
1,2,3. Turn them around. Watch the scroll for the start of the thread
and put the jaws back in 3,2,1. Run the jaws to the center, if you did
right the jaws will all get there at the same time.

Carl.

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david@... wrote:

Want to flip the jaws around to receive a larger work piece but don't
want to tear anything up.? ?Tia.