2013 POTD Thread Archive

[SE18]

nothing special, just made carbon arc torch for my Marquette stick welder. Not quite as good as my oxyacy but gives me new toy to play with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85PCW-M8fc

 

[awander]

nothing special, just made carbon arc torch for my Marquette stick welder. Not quite as good as my oxyacy but gives me new toy to play with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85PCW-M8fc

Se18, that's cool!

I got a carbon-arc torch when I bought my ancient Forney stick welder. I haven't tried it out yet. I will have to do so.

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Andy, that is one cool tool. This is a tool that should be in everyone's toolbox. It looks simple enough to make. Could you lay the tool beside a ruler so I can see the deminsions. I'm thinking that this would make a nice Christmas gift for the maechanical type men in my family. Thanks again for taking the time to post this.

Hiya Philco:

Yeah, it is a really neat tool! Won't be usable in tight spaces(like inside my washing machine) but I can think of plenty of places where it will work-and when hose clamps cost anywhere from 30 cents on up to mucho dollars, I think I will like it!

I made a CAD drawing of the tool I made, if that would help. I can post it as a dxf, dwg, or pdf.

 

[davidh]

andy, do post a drawing. it will help lots of guys. thanks for that.

 

[Charley Davidson]

Todays project was 2 fold in this post the first segment.
I made an indicator holder (Actually 2) for the ways on my lathe, 1 for forward of the carriage & one aft. First time I nodded the head or ran the ram out on my mill. I was kinda leery of doing so for a couple reasons, afraid I might twist off the locking bolts, or the ones that move the ram or head and worried I might not get the head back true (I didn't) but will work on that tomorrow.

So first I milled the V in the block and got the depth right, then made the second half, drilled/tapped holes and mounted it, worked great.

 

[awander]

andy, do post a drawing. it will help lots of guys. thanks for that.

Looks like the downloads section is not up right now.

 

[Charley Davidson]

The second segment of this project.

I wanted to try and get more travel out of my 1" indicator so I did some thinking (Smoked out my shop" I figured with the 2 mounts I could synchronize them so that when the first indicator reached 1" the second one would zero and go another inch for a total of 2" travel. Wasn't good enough I wanted more so I designed a turret to get 4 more inches out of the 1" indicator. I found a few parts and started brain storming and came up with this. I only got the 1" block done but will make a 2,3 & 4" block for a total capacity of 6" of travel by using the 2 indicator method. My bock is .001 off but I will correct that.

 

[Charley Davidson]

That is friggin brilliant Charlie.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while:lmao:

 

[strandbygaard]

DRO Mount (Y-axis) on Sieg SX3

There are tons of posts on mounting DRO on a mill. This is the first of three axis on my Sieg SX3. I didn't quite do it today, but at least I got around to documenting it today

Levelling the scale:



Drilled mounting holes:



Tapping the holes:



Testing for fit, and marking where to cut off scale:



Levelling the scale for final installation:



The scale mounted with magnetic tape and cover:



Angle bracket to mount the magnetic encoder head:



Tapping holes for the bracket:



The bracket with magnetic encoder head installed:



Another view of the final mounted scale and encoder:



And the full thing



If you made it this far, I also made a more extensive write-up here, but I'm not going to repost the text, and I'm guessing most just want to see the pictures, anyway.

 

[stevecmo]

Very nice install and documentation. Thanks for sharing.

 

[awander]

andy, do post a drawing. it will help lots of guys. thanks for that.

View attachment clamp tool.pdf