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Two weeks ago I went to the local machinery suppliers open day and came away with a nice little X Y table. It came out of the redundant stock bucket and was a snip at £30. 

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It is made of cast iron / steel (unlike many cheap fleabay products) and has gibs and locks on both axis. The hand wheels are calibrated in thousandths of an inch with one revolution giving .050 inch travel (20 TPI). The x travel is 5.250 inch and the y travel is 2.625 inch.

 

I had been thinking about making a mini mill for a while. I find my bench mill is a bit too meaty for the smaller ship work and its maximum speed of 2400 rpm is much too slow for smaller drills and end mill cutters when working on aluminium, brass and hardwood. 

 

I did a bit of calculation on cutters of up to 3mm diameter (table below) and concluded that a spindle speed of 10,000 - 30,000 rpm wouldn't be too excessive.

 

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Having bought the table I had a hunt through my "rainy day" store and came up with the following:-

 

Cross slide lead screw from my long retired Boxford lathe. This is nicely engineered with the screw mounted on double trust bearings and calibrated in tousandths (1 revolution = .100 inch). It will give me 6" Z axis travel.

 

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2 speed "Rotozip" 550 Watt spiral saw body with speeds of 25000 and 33000 RPM. I have had this for 20 years during which time its had about one hours use. Its got loads of torque and nicely tight bearings. Ideally i would like to put speed control on it but as yet I'm not sure how.

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A digital read out, bought cheaply on a whim for £5. ( I will need 2 more). Its Ideally sized for the x axis.

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To make this a success I need to pay a lot of attention to the accuracy of the build but the first job was to come up with a design. I worked through a few options before coming up with the following general arrangement (drawn at full size).

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The column frame will be made out of .375" thick aluminium plate and the milling head will run on two pairs of linear roller bearings riding on on a pair of .473" bars that in a previous life were kitchen door handles. 

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This should keep me off boat building for a while!

Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

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I'm going to follow along, I love stuff like this :pirate41:

 

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Can’t wait to see the next episode. Allan

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Perhaps a router speed control similar to this might work for you. It was $20US. I use it also to control the heat from a 1Kw electric blanket for bending hardwood. 

 

Another alternative would be to scavenge the DC motor and control board from an exercise treadmill (often disguised as clothes racks).  They're usually rated ~2HP and spin from ~50-5000 RPM.  The flywheel-pulley is a common poly-V belt with ~8 grooves.  I'm using such a motor on my 10x36 Midi woodlathe, and it's plenty enough power.

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Thank you Derek, Allan, Richard and Bob. I'll keep the speed controller in mind for later in the build.

 

I made a start on the column. Its not the most exciting component but its accuracy is critical to accuracy of the mill. Specifically the axis of the column must sit perfectly at right angles to the base (and hence the x,y table. I'll come back to this point in a future post.

 

The first job was hacking out the 4 plates that will make up the column. Chopping through 3/8th inch plate with a hand hacksaw isn't that much fun (even in aluminium). I kept the two end plates together for initial machining hence 3 plates initially.

 

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I planned to do most of my machining off my existing milling machine bed - thus eliminating any inaccuracies introduced by holding the components in a vice. I have a side stop strip for the bed (made previously). It clamps accurately in one of the "T' slots and its side faces were machined when in the slot. Anything butted up against the stop is truly parallel to the table.

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All 3 plates for the top and back of the column were machined up against the stop with the front to back travel on the mill locked. This ensured all plates were exactly the same width.  The ends of the plates were then faced off using the front to back travel, thus ensuring the squareness of the plates. The web was also machined parallel and square.

 

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The top plates were then separated and dowel holes and location slots machined in. The dowel holes are to facilitate later machining operations and the slots are to ensure accurate assembly. The two plates were machined in tandem on the milling table to ensure they were identical.

 

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The back plate was also slotted for location of the web and recesses were cut in the end to take the end plates.

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I was pleased with the accuracy of the assembly. In the following photo the plates are held together by friction while I am suspending the assembly by the top plate.

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I positioned the column next to the table to give an idea of the size of the mill.fullsizeoutput_11b5.thumb.jpeg.d0cb731c8ff3bce4bd61fb6d7cd7fa66.jpeg

Next I need to drill and tap the plates so I can bolt them together. 

Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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Thank You Bob.

 

I made a bit more progress yesterday - mostly drilling and tapping.

 

The top plates and the web needed drilling and then tapping along the edges. To hold them in position they were clamped agains the square edges of a pair of "V" blocks which in turn were clamped to the milling table.

 

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Some time later all was drilled and tapped.

 

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I mentioned earlier about making sure the axis of the column was truly at right angles to the base. To ensure this the two end plates have centre drill holes accurately machined in identical positions. These will be used to mount the entire column assembly between centres in the lathe so that the base can be skimmed square with the axis.

 

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The 4 components - end plates, web and back plate were bolted up to test fit.

 

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Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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A bit more progress to report - but the workshop will be little visited in the coming 2 weeks as other priorities loom.

 

A couple of days ago the linear bearings turned up at the door - I paid £9 for the four. They are sold for CNC router builds.

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I cut the .500" plate that the bearings are seated on. I chose quite a wide spacing to maximise the vertical movement accuracy of the mill. In the following photo the bearings are resting on the plate with a bar (ex kitchen door handle) threaded through. The bar is surprisingly accurate and fitted the 12mm bearing bore with no discernible play.

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The bearing plate was then accurately drilled with the 16 holes to take the M5 bearing fixing bolts. The holes were countersunk to take the cap screw heads. The central 3 holes are for attaching the boss that will take the lead screw nut for the vertical movement.

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The bearings are recessed against a machined shoulder to ensure vertical alignment. This was marked purely as a check for next machining stage.

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The bearings were then bolted in position and the running bars reintroduced.

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The end plates have to be very accurately machined to take the running bars as any discrepancy on the separation distance will mean that the bearing plate will jam.

 

I therefore measured the outside of the assembled bars and their diameter and calculated the centre dimension. 

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The end plates were then drilled and reamed to this dimension.DSC07483.thumb.JPG.93449675a4f3e169346c0d7998650301.JPG

Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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So the final bit of building for s few weeks.

 

The running bars have to exactly match the back plate - i.e 15.000" across the shoulders. The difficulty is I don't have a vernier that long, however as they say "necessity is the mother of invention. I started by turning the bars over length as measured with an engineers rule.

 

My only accurate measuring device was the milling bed y axis - graduated on the hand wheel and fitted with a DRO.

 

The first step in measuring was to place an end stop on the parallel location bar mentioned earlier. The position of the end stop was then fixed with the edge finder. The DRO and the hand wheel graduations were set to zero.

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The bar was pushed up hard against the stop and then the edge finder was used to fix the other end of the bar.

 

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One bar was 15.416" long while the other was slightly shorter at 15.406". The shoulders on either end therefore needed to be .208" and .203" respectively.

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It was critical that the shoulders on the bars were cut concentric, so rather than relying on lathe chuck accuracy I used a collet block in the 4 Jaw chuck. This allowed me play with the accuracy of the set up of the bars to my hearts content.

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Using the dial gauge I set the running of the bars at circa .0005 or better before cutting each of the 4 ends. The shoulder diameter was .314" +/- .00025" to match the drilled and reamed holes in the end plates. The ends of the bars were drilled and tapped M5 to take the fixing bolts.

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The test of all my efforts at accuracy was in the assembly.

 

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Phew! - it turned out OK.

 

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Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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That will be one solid and static mill I think.  Beautiful machining you're doing.

Mark
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Ok? Looks like it turned out great ! :pirate41:

Derek C

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18th Century Whaling Vessel "Lagoda"

 

 

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Triton Cross Section by Derek C 1/48 

18th century longboat by Slideways - FINISHED - Model Shipways

18th century longboat by sideways from MS plans

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Derek / Wefalck - thank you.

 

Being away from the workshop at the moment I am having withdrawal symptoms. It has however given me time to have a bit of a think about the drive arrangement.

 

I have found it very difficult to get much information about the rotozip drive motor. The only information I have is what is on the body - i.e. 550W / 220v and switchable 25000 / 33000 rpm. The ratio of the speeds is almost exactly 1 to 0.75. I am therefore assuming that the motor is an AC synchronous motor with stator pole switching. This being the case I'm a bit concerned about the choice of variable speed drive - I guess I need to have the views of an electrical engineer. Views welcome??????????????

 

In the mean time however I have decided to put up with the limitations of the rotozip and deal with the speeds via a 3 pulley belt drive. With 2 motor speeds this gives me a total of 6 speed settings. Because I am working with the fixed ratio of motor speeds (1 to 0.75 as explained above) the speed choice is little compromised. However i think the following should be workable:-

 

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The pulley sizes are sensible at 0.75" driver and 3", 2.6" and 1.8" driven. I feel fairly comfortable with a cutter speed range between 6250 and 1375 rpm. I would however like a very low speed - circa 500 - 1000 rpm for use with a mechanical edge finder. Therefore I may come back to the VSD option at some time.

 

 

 

 

 

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Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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Nautical Adventures

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1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

I would however like a very low speed - circa 500 - 1000 rpm for use with a mechanical edge finder.

I'm being silly - i should just buy an electronic edge finder and eliminate the problem - Provided I can find one small enough!.

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Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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I got one of those mechanical edge-finders, but nearly never use it. In most cases I either take the shaft of a broken carbide endmill into a collet and slowly move the workpiece up against it until I feel the resistance, or for scribed marks, I use the the very sharp tip of a conical burr close above the surface to aim from two directions along the scribed lines.

wefalck

 

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8 hours ago, wefalck said:

got one of those mechanical edge-finders,

Hello Wefalck

 

When I started my apprenticeship in the late 1960s we had never heard of edge finders. The method then was to wet a piece of cigarette paper and stick it on the edge. Then with the milling cutter rotating, wind the edge slowly towards the cutter. Just before the cutter touches the edge it wipes the paper away, thus establishing the position of the edge to less than the thickness of the paper, typically better than .001 inches. I now use a mechanical edge finder, but I may go back to how I learned to do it a half a century ago.

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Keith

 

Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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Ok so you have got my attention!  Very nice Keith, I like the way you have been approaching this build, makes me want to dash out to the shop and start fiddling. Trouble is the bow needs re stringing.

I like the old cross slide screw for the vertical travel and the re purposed kitchen door handles guess you will be able to get cooking with this mill once it is done. I couldn't resist.

 

Will you be adding some rubber or leather wipers to keep the linear bearings clean of dust and swarf? It might be a good thing to add. I have not had much experience with them the only type I had used did not have their own built in.

 

Looking forward to the next installment.

Michael

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7 hours ago, michael mott said:

Will you be adding some rubber or leather wipers to keep the linear bearings clean of dust and swarf?

Hi Michael.

 

Thank you for your comments.

 

The linear bearing cages are held inside the bearing blocks by a pair of circlips, one each end. Between the circlips and bearing cages are a pair of rubber wipers. They look a bit insubstantial so I may upgrade them at a later date.

Keith

 

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Today I did a bit more machining. Some time back I mentioned the need to have the column base at true right angles to the column axis. I had previously centre drilled holes in the top and bottom plate so the column could be mounted between centres on the lathe. The column is virtually at the limit of what my lathe will take in terms of swing over bed and distance between centres and getting it mounted took a bit of fiddling.

 

I started with the lathe chuck removed and the head stock centre installed. I needed to improvise a drive for rotating the column hence the bolt in the chuck mounting plate.

 

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I bolted a piece of scrap to the top end plate of the column. The bolt in the chuck mounting plate bears against this.

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Because the column is much heavier on one side it had a tendency to "flip over" when rotated so I decided to lash it to stop this happening.

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The saddle had to be wound right back on the bed as the assembly would not clear the saddle.

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The speed of rotation for machining the lower end plate had to be very low - circa 100rpm. I tried it first at 200 and the lathe nearly jumped across the room. With this set up I machined the end plate. I don't have a power cross feed so the cross slide feed was turned very slowly by hand. 

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Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

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Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

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Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

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25 minutes ago, aviaamator said:

In the photo my homemade milling machine

That looks like a nicely solid build. I assume you speed control the motor? Is it DC or AC - and what speed controller do you use?

Keith

 

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Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

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On 07/04/2018 at 10:02 PM, aviaamator said:

I'm using The Altivar 312 speed controller

Thank you I'll bear it in mind as an option.

 

A bit more progress:-

 

I needed a stop to limit the lower position of the bearing plate. Without a stop the plate would fall off the end of the vertical leadscrew. I used an aluminium tube (from a broken tripod) with end collars machined accurately to fit over one of the running bars. I am also going to add a moveable end stop to the bar to allow me to preset repeatable depths of cut.

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I decided to tidy the lead screw bearing casting, the paintwork was a bit battered so I removed it with the grinder wire wheel.

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The casting was masked up and given a couple of coats of primer.

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I needed to mount the casting on the top plate. This involved establishing the relative positions of the 3 holes (central large hole and 2 smaller holes). By various (not too precise) means I measured the pitch of the smaller holes as 1.994". The large hole is not on the same axis as the smaller holes and measurement, addition and subtraction give me a displacement of .194". Not withstanding the measurement I reasoned the original designer wouldn't have chosen such obscure measurement and guessed that the actual measurements were 2" and 0.2". So this is what I used for machining the mating top plate. The smaller holes were drilled and tapped and the central hole was bored accurately to 0.750" to take the boss on the casting.

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Fortunately everything lined up.

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I also made the boss for the back of the bearing plate. This is required to mount the leadscrew nut.

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On a different subject and in parallel I decided my scrap bin had enough parts for me to join the Michael Mott 3rd hand club.

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The origins of the parts are:-

 

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Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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Keith, 

Your last post just points out that we guys have a reason for saving "stuff" that the Admiral thinks should be binned.   I'm printing it out just in case.....

Mark
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On 09/04/2018 at 8:27 PM, KeithAug said:

I am also going to add a moveable end stop

 

20 hours ago, mtaylor said:

we guys have a reason for saving "stuff" that the Admiral thinks should be binned

Mark - given your comment you may find the moveable end stop interesting.

 

A couple of months ago I refurbished the daughters bathroom and amongst other things recovered the following:-

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The bar is the handle from a mixer tap and the ball with shaft is the end of a wall mounted toilet roll holder.

 

I made a clamping ring from 1" bar - bored to have a close fit on the runners and drilled and tapped to take the end of the mixer tap handle (M8).

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The ball shaft was threaded and the handle was bored and tapped to take it. The end of the handle was removed and returned to the rainy day bin.

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Recycling can be very satisfying.

 

 

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Current Build:-

Cangarda (Steam Yacht) - Scale 1:24

 

Previous Builds:-

 

Schooner Germania (Nova) - Scale 1:36

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/19848-schooner-germania-nova-by-keithaug-scale-136-1908-2011/

Schooner Altair by KeithAug - Scale 1:32 - 1931

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/12515-schooner-altair-by-keithaug-scale-132-1931/?p=378702

J Class Endeavour by KeithAug - Amati - Scale 1:35 - 1989 after restoration.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10752-j-class-endeavour-by-keithaug-amati-scale-135-1989-after-restoration/?p=325029

 

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Wonderful use of broken parts on the mill. Love the tripod parts for the third hand. I sent my one similar to that to my Son in Whitehorse.

 

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