On 2011-07-09, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2011-07-07, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

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It would also appear that you don't have the dial indicator
mount.


No, there is no indicator mount.

A pity. With a lathe, and a somewhat larger drill press, you
could make one using my description below.


I have a 12 speed floor press with a half inch chuck. Just no access
to a lathe, so far.

O.K. I guess that you could take some hex stock and chuck it in
the drill press, and run it with a file to round the lower part to the
proper diameter for the threads. At a guess, the threads are 1/4-28,
but I've never measured them.

Oh yes -- also you would want either a hex broach (expensive,
new) or some needle files to file one hole out to the proper hex shape.

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Other than this -- it looks really nice.


Other than a ring of something on the table, it looks almost new.

Just a discoloration? Nothing to worry about. If it is a cut
or a wear pattern, it would be unpleasant, but you could bolt some 1/4"
aluminum to the top surface to get a smooth surface back.


I brought it into the house. I'll see if I can get better photos
with proper lighting. The ring looks like someone set a can os
something on the aluminum. I may be able to clean it off and leave the
original finish.

O.K. If the surface is smooth -- don't worry about cleaning it
off. It may have sunk into the pores of the anodizing, in which case
you would have to remove some material to get rid of it.

You may need to adjust the end play in the spindle. To do that,
you loosen an allen head setscrew in the top of the pulley, and screw
the shaft into the pulley to minize the end play, then re-tighten the
setscrew.

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and pressing up and down to feel the end play. If you have it, it is
easy enough to adjust out.


I didn't feel any, when i looked it over before I bought it.

O.K. Check it over when you get it into the house. It is
certainly easy enough to adjust out if it is present. (I think that
mine has about 0.005" of end play at the moment.

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Thanks for the tips. The pictures that disappeared from the camera
had more detail.

Of *course* they did. That is why they vanished. :-)


I think the 1 GB XD cards draw too much power, but the built in
memory only holds a few pictures. If you look at the names of the
images, they are all consecutive which indicates they weren't written to
the XD card so the counter would increment.

O.K. What connector does an XD card have? The CF has two rows
of tiny pins (in the socket), and are easy to bend if you put the card
in wrong once. The SD seems to be flat PC-like connectors which are
wiped by spring fingers in the socket.

Anyway -- if one is bent, it won't work right.

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Graingers has the Jacobs K0 chuck key for less than $10.

Just for the fun of it -- ask Gunner what he wants for the
Albrecht chucks? I didn't ask him, because I already have three, and
don't see a need for more. (One for the Cameron, one for the tailstock
of the Compact-5/CNC lathe (along with 1/4" Albrecht, and 3/8" Rhom
(clone of Albrecht) on different arbors), and one for the adaptor --
1/2" chuck down to 1/8" chuck with finger pressure feed.


I will, when I see him on the group, or if he sees this post he can
email me the information.

It looks as though he followed up to this article of yours -- so
you may already have the information.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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