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Hemingway's Set-Over Centre: The Base

29/10/2012

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The Set-Over Centre is the 2nd kit I bought from Hemingway Kit. The first was the knurling tool which I've not the confident to start working on. Maybe after a few simpler projects I'll start my attempt.

Like most of the little projects I did, I've the drawings drawn on my notebook as 3D models so that I can visualise how things fit together. The raw materials were cleaned up and cut to size to prepare for marking.

Enough of writing. Time for pics...
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I measure the thickness of the steel stock and realised that it is not the 3/8" as shown in the drawing. Same goes for the width, which is narrower than the 1" dimension given in the drawing. I supposed these are not critical.
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Cleaning one side of the stock to use as reference.
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Marking out the other end to mill stock to length. This was the maiden "scribe" by my brand new Mitutoyo Height Gage.
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I can't be more than happy with what I see on the caliper. This is important to me as I've not been able to "hit the mark" on the mill since I started the hobby. Hoping to see more accurate work!
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Marking out the holes and the area to be milled. I used the permanent marker as "layout fluid". Tried shipping in Dykem but my order was held in US and can't be shipped.
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Need to improve on using the punch. Would the optical punch help? Tried correcting by "moving" the punch marks as shown in some YouTube vids - not much of an improvement.
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I was wondering if I should use the edge to move to the centre mark but decided to try using the Mitutoyo Centre Finder. Not really sure of how to use it though. With the point in the punch mark, I adjusted the handwheels on both the horizontal axes till I feel the Centre Finder smooth at the moving part. Anyone can share how this is to be used?
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Centre drill...
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Drilling with 6.4mm drill for 5/16" BSF. Took quite a while to drill through. There was quite some vibration felt during the process, prompting me to reduce spindle speed and ease the feed.
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Hole done. Not very round isn't it...
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Tapping the hole. The spindle with a dead centre was used to start the thread.
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Countersink used to deburr the threaded hole. Should I be doing this before tapping?After finishing with the centre hole, I moved along X axis on both side of it for the 2 1/4" BSF tap holes. The 1/4" BSF tap doesn't have a hole at the end of its shank. So it went into the ER16 collet held in the spindle as guide.
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The Z axis was lowered while the tap was turned using a wrench on the collet chuck.
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Thread done and tested with a 1/4" BSF cap screw that came with the kit. I don't have anything BSF at home to test the 5/16" BSF though. It is meant for the threaded end of the half centre.
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The surface was then cleaned of chips and oil. I redid the layout of the recessed area as the dye of the marker was washed away by the cutting oil.
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I was a little nervous when milling the recess. My last work in steel making the flycutter was quite a painful one; the Sherline mill vibrated like no tomorrow and it was really loud!
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It wasn't that bad this round. Each pass was only 0.2mm deep. After reaching the final depth of the recess (1/16"), the slot mill was moved to open up the slot above and below the centre line at full depth but with rather slow feed and speed. Conventional milling was used.
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The recess completed. I measured the slots and found that I've one end at 15mm while the other end is at the correct width of 15.08mm. Is my horizontal axes not perpendicular to each other? Also, I went 0.07mm to deep though I dialed in the correct amount. I'll do the adjustments when making the Base.
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The top was drilled and tapped for 2BA setscrew, right to the 5/16" thread hole.
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The setscrew installed. You can see that it is not exactly at the centre of the 5/16" thread hole. Don't think this will cause problem.
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The Slide is now completed. I may not want to mill the radius at the 2 ends of both the Slide and Base to simplify the build. Maye I should, to learn how this should be done.
I'll work on the Base in my next session in the shop. One question which I would like to ask. The 2MT arbor needs to be machined and thread 5/16" BSF. I'm scratching my head thinking through how I should be holding the arbor. The Proxxon lathe has a 3MT in the spindle. My Sherline lathe has 1MT. Do I hold it between centre?
2 Comments
CQ
28/10/2012 03:34:21 pm

hi Wong, are there suppose to have more photos? I can only see the first 4. the rest are just "Sample image, CLick here to edit" boxes.

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Loke-Yeow Wong
28/10/2012 07:00:16 pm

Yes sir. Been having problem with Weebly iPhone app. All photo comments didn't come true during posting. I'll get them fixed tomorrow night on the notebook.

This post will be the start of manual migration of contents from my BlogSpot account to Weebly.

Did you check out the table saw at Homely?

Regards,
Wong

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