I've been working on mocking up a quill stop for the mill these past few days. Don't want to screw up the piece of 1/2" aluminum plate I bought to make it with. It's close enough now that I can tweak the arm if necessary to make it all fit together. It'll use one of those speed nuts for the adjustable stop nut.
Ed
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I've been working on a work stop for the mill. Finally in the home stretch. I just have to make the knobs and a few finishing touches and I can cross this one off of my long list.
Ed
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Very nice and heavy duty. You might want to think about turning down one end of your stop rod to a small diameter (long dog point) to be able to reach in between the jaws for thin parts.
(09-10-2022, 07:20 PM)Highpower Wrote: [ -> ]Very nice and heavy duty. You might want to think about turning down one end of your stop rod to a small diameter (long dog point) to be able to reach in between the jaws for thin parts.
I plan on putting an internal thread on the end of the stop rod so I can screw in various types of tips depending on the situation.
Ed
I worked on making the blocks look better. Lots of chamfers followed by sanding on some fine wet/dry paper. Everything is done except for the knobs. I'm waiting on some brass rod to arrive so I can make them.
I also got the hole drilled and tapped in the end of the stop rod so it's ready for attachments. Speaking of which, I need to make some.
Ed
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Today I worked on the quill stop for the mill. I set up the HF band saw in the vertical position and attached the table to cut out the outline from the aluminum plate. It was slow going at first so I changed the speed to the fastest pulley. That didn't help much so I changed out the original blade with a replacement blade that I had bought for the saw. The original blade that came with the saw has too many teeth per inch for cutting aluminum. The new blade has a 10/14 tooth configuration. That worked much better.
Then I attacked the plate with files to roughly create the rounded features. I'll fine tune them later. It's to the point where I can mount it onto the mill table and mill the straight sides to clean them up. Then I'll start cutting the large hole that clamps over the spindle housing. I think I'll start with a hole saw and then go to the final dimension with a boring head.
Ed
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Decided I needed a set of soft jaws for the shop vise, and I refuse to pay for them. So, some aluminum angle, a couple of magnets and some sheet rubber. All of which I had laying around the shop. In fact, the rubber and angle were from the scrap bins at work, so free to me.
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Rubber was attached to the angles with VHB tape. Magnets were pressed in. Total time about 30 minutes.