What have you done in your shop lately?

[Nogoingback]

Like a lot of Logan owners, the dials are too darn small for me to see easily. Today I finished inscribing the lines on my larger crossfeed
dial. Just need to make a handle for it and figure out how to jig up the number stamps. I also cut a keyway in it by the Mr. Pete method.
Material is 416 SS.

 

[benmychree]

Not the best thing to run the longest lines all the way across the dial, it leaves no place to stamp or engrave the numbers.

 

[pontiac428]

I thought he would lay out the stamps like 5|0 6|0 7|0...

 

[benmychree]

how about zero?

 

[pontiac428]

Well, he can't put the metal back, so maybe "zero" will be a "phi". I'd probably go with 0|0 for digits.

 

[nnam]

Nice engraving though. Mine didn't look look and I was in a process of making a second one.

 

[benmychree]

zero zero makes sense!

 

[Firstgear]

Very nice. How did you keep it so clean?

If you clean up after every use it isn’t too difficult. I find that I do that after every project on my mill and when I feel like it with the lathe.

 

[Nogoingback]

how about zero?

The line under the zero is an intermediate length line, so there's room to center it. Pontiac has it right: the plan is to have numbers on each side of the line for the others.

 

[Nogoingback]

Nice engraving though. Mine didn't look look and I was in a process of making a second one.

Thanks. I'm pretty happy with the way they came out, though I would change the way I did it slightly next time.
As you can see from the pic, I used a cemented carbide tool to cut the lines. (Because I had a couple of brand new ones
on hand.). On the first one I snapped a bit of the tip off when I backed up the tool after cutting a line. After I changed tools, I backed out the cross slide each time I finished a line and then reset the depth before the next cut. That was a little more time consuming, but it worked better. Next time I'd probably just grind something in HSS. DOC was .006.