Todays Project - What did you do today?
@ Ed - get your mind out of the gutter, Lad! I know this is the internet, but not everything is pron here.

Actually, that gag comes from my teen years. I worked for $4/hr cash, with a bottle of Jack for holidays. The gig was repairing lawnmowers. George, the "owner" of the business was a true dropout from society, and literally, a skinny, dirty hippy, unreconstructed from back in the day.

Anyway, George was cobbling together a long ramp to roll mowers up onto the workbench, and I asked why, and he asked why I was asking. I reached down with one hand, lifted it by the pull-start housing and set it on the bench, effortlessly. George just said "Oh" and walked away.
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(10-06-2016, 05:54 PM)Roadracer_Al Wrote: I know this is the internet, but not everything is pron here.

I know everything is not pron but a lot of it is porn. Big Grin

Ed
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Like pretty much everyone who's ever had a round-column mill/drill, I got tired of getting my hand dirty on the leadscrew while locking or unlocking the Y-axis. When i started to plan it out, I realized it was a pretty quick project. I won't bore you with a step-by-step description.

Here's the finished product. I do have some 1" screw-on balls that I was planning to use on the end of the handle, but there isn't enough clearance against the base casting. I may put a slight bend in the handle to allow it, but it seems to work well as is.

Unlocked.
   

Locked.
   

Okay. I'll give you one little detail. I cut the slots on the arms at 30 degrees to clear the link bar at both ends of travel. I clamped the bars at that angle and used one of my smallest slitting saws to make the cut.
   

I really like the way it works quick, clean and it really holds.
Mike

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Besides doing moving, what makes it a lock? I don't see it doing anything.
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sorry vinny but i can see how it works , and in that  pic it is in the lock possy if it was on my mill

johno
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I'm guessing the set screw is ensuring that the bolt on the left is locking the gib. If so, is there any need for the pivot and link arm. Or is this preventing gravity unlocking it?
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Painted the Brideport today.

Turned out not too bad.
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Nice lookin' paint job.
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Thanks. First time painting with a HVLP gun.
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