I came here on Rob's recommendation and I'm glad I did. A boring head, a rod through it and a screw in each end of the rod for the eye on the back of an indicator is what I did, seems to work okay too.
Rob sent me over. Would it help on the indicator mount end if you reverse the horizontal mount, screw the indicator mount to it with a nut to clamp securely onto horizontal shaft? That way you can get the indicator tension correct while the nut would hold everything in place
Thanks for watching. Yes, that could work. I guess I did not spend a lot of time designing this which is not like me at all. I typically over design projects. But I wanted to add the bit at the end so that others were aware of the limitations.
Well done. Whilst it would not make much difference to an ER style collett because the slits are cut from the front and the back equally so clamp equally if you were using an R8 or Morse collett you should aim to make the bar an almost exact fit to your collett size because the don't. Might be helpful to someone else looking at this if they have a different sort of collett system in their mill.
I came here on Rob's recommendation and I'm glad I did. A boring head, a rod through it and a screw in each end of the rod for the eye on the back of an indicator is what I did, seems to work okay too.
Thanks for stopping in Jim. Yes, there are countless designs. As long as it works so you can get the job is the most important thing.
Interesting build. Thank you for sharing. Also thank you to Robbie for introducing you. Happy to subscribe. Andrew in the UK. 👏👏👍😀
Hi Andrew, thanks for watching. I just saw your video on that fascinating casting machine. It is good to see old machinery running.
Thank you. Learning a lot over here. Very well presented, btw.
Thanks you.
Rob sent me over. Would it help on the indicator mount end if you reverse the horizontal mount, screw the indicator mount to it with a nut to clamp securely onto horizontal shaft? That way you can get the indicator tension correct while the nut would hold everything in place
Thanks for watching. Yes, that could work. I guess I did not spend a lot of time designing this which is not like me at all. I typically over design projects. But I wanted to add the bit at the end so that others were aware of the limitations.
Well done. Whilst it would not make much difference to an ER style collett because the slits are cut from the front and the back equally so clamp equally if you were using an R8 or Morse collett you should aim to make the bar an almost exact fit to your collett size because the don't. Might be helpful to someone else looking at this if they have a different sort of collett system in their mill.
Thanks Ben.
thanks for the good video i enjoyed it . i have a round column also, rob sent me over thanks
Thanks for watching. I will be uploading the video for tramming the mill in a few days.