POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

Progress on the dividing head!
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I used the induction to shrink fit the plate to the spindle.
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Group Project: Dividing Head - The Build

This will be the build thread for the group built Dividing head we will all be posting notes, pics, vids? of our progress, there can also be discussion about setups or how to do some things, order of operations or anything else that comes up pertaining to making the parts. The original thread...
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rwm said:
Looks brand new! What is the spindle taper?
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The previous owner did a full rebuild of it including a very nice paint job, the DRO, and a pair of VFDs. It's setup pretty much perfectly for me. It's even wired to run off of 120 V 15A!

The vertical Bridgeport spindle uses 2VB collets (I hadn't heard of them until I found this machine but fortunately it came with a full set of Hardinge 2VB collets) and the horizontal spindle is 5C (I got a mix of Hardinge collets and some that are probably Chinese).
 
Nice score !! There's not many of them around here.

Greg
 
SightlessSeer said:
The previous owner did a full rebuild of it including a very nice paint job, the DRO, and a pair of VFDs. It's setup pretty much perfectly for me. It's even wired to run off of 120 V 15A!

The vertical Bridgeport spindle uses 2VB collets (I hadn't heard of them until I found this machine but fortunately it came with a full set of Hardinge 2VB collets) and the horizontal spindle is 5C (I got a mix of Hardinge collets and some that are probably Chinese).
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I did not notice that was a BP/ Hardinge centaur! Nice. Seems very versatile.
 
I nearly bought this:

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(note the all-important powered vertical head as opposed to the little stub vertical head that normally comes with these)

for £650 off a seller (within one and a half hours drive from me, as well) on lathes.co.uk...

...but it turns out that Tony, whilst a gem at providing a vital information resource on machine tools, is no super organised updater of the status of For Sale items on his classifieds section.

It had been sold about a month previous. :frown:.

Ah well, something like it will turn up sooner or later I guess. Hopefully when my finances are more sturdy.

Had a nice chat with the previous owner though. :)
 
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