01-04-2014, 11:19 AM
Looks good other than that you really should engrave graduations on the thimble, round off more (as you said) and add the second clamping screw that seems to be missing. 
My project for today was to take the smallest of the axles I'd made for Neil (expat) and re-do the milling of the hex. We had sort of "over polished" it on the Norton Beartex deburring wheel, so the 5/8" (.625") hex was looking a bit too rounded off.
I put it back into the 5C collet spin indexer on my milling machine. It took longer to line it up and check it than it did to mill it down to 15mm (.5906") using a 3/4" Kennametal 3-insert shoulder milling cutter.
I don't have a "before" photo, but here's what it looks like now. Just a quick shot done with my mobile phone.
![[Image: IMG_20140104_100811408_zps2vufxx9x.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/kenm10759/Dads%20shop/IMG_20140104_100811408_zps2vufxx9x.jpg)
My project for today was to take the smallest of the axles I'd made for Neil (expat) and re-do the milling of the hex. We had sort of "over polished" it on the Norton Beartex deburring wheel, so the 5/8" (.625") hex was looking a bit too rounded off.
I put it back into the 5C collet spin indexer on my milling machine. It took longer to line it up and check it than it did to mill it down to 15mm (.5906") using a 3/4" Kennametal 3-insert shoulder milling cutter.
I don't have a "before" photo, but here's what it looks like now. Just a quick shot done with my mobile phone.