The Home Machinist!

Hi Torch. I now understand that you are new like me. I have figured out how all my crashes were happening, as I posted above. A couple of notes. I lock the carriage using the carriage lock. As I am not using the lead screw anymore for power feeding, I disengage the carriage from the screw, so as not...

Hello everyone. I do understand the difference between climb and conventional milling. I may have not explained my crashing problem very well, so I will give it another try. Hopefully I have all my axis figured out properly, using the right hand rule, for the lathe. With my work above the spindle a...

Hello everyone. Thanks for taking interest in my learning process. I do understand the difference between climb and conventional milling. After a bit of contemplating my problem, with crashing, figured that I need to do all my milling with the vertical screw of the milling attachment itself. The rea...

Still working on the replacement part for my shaper. During this process I am learning the lathe and milling attachment limits. As I worked milling one surface to be parallel to the opposite, I had a problem with the MA (Milling Attachment) binding as I tried to raise the part. So I took the MA apar...

Thanks for all the replies about open gear oil. I have found a store in Olympia that handles Keystone products, I have not inquired about what they have in stock yet, but will do so soon. Thanks So today I call up to find out if they have Keystone open gear oil in stock. I ask the guy that answer t...

Thanks for all the replies about open gear oil. I have found a store in Olympia that handles Keystone products, I have not inquired about what they have in stock yet, but will do so soon.
Thanks

Here is a picture of the part I am working on with the original. IMG00001-20110125-2319.jpg The Horizontal surface is the one milled tonight. You can see, many of the previous cuts that were not done as well. IMG00003-20110125-2143.jpg I still have a bit of trial and errors to get through yet, but i...

Today I started with two brand new end mills, and I still have one brand new end mill and one that it slightly used! Also the progress of making the replacement for the Shaper has moved along a bit. I am learning the limits of the milling attachment and ways to use it to a greater advantage. I need ...

Cold is about gone and I am feeling much better. Still waiting on the SLOW boat from China to arrive with my endmills. Took all the end gears off the lathe today and cleaned everything up. Now she makes more noise than ever. What kind of lube do you guys use for the end gears? Something that will st...

I am only in the beginnings of learning machining. Is this the company that makes your mill? http://www.pedersen-maskiner.dk/page_control.asp?menu_nbr=38 I am an electrical contractor by trade, and when someone ask me it I can put an outlet somewhere for them. My answer always is; "With enough ...

Thanks everybody for your replies. That is what I needed to know.

Hi Mark The indexers I have looked at have pins for positive stops and the literature says there are 9 different divisions available and with the vernier it has a resolution of 1 degree. So it seems that I would be able to make a positive stop at each degree and one could theoretically cut a gear wi...