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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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sine plate
Just starting out, I have a sine plate with one end as a hinge. It has
a small locking bracket but it could not take any pressure, Is the upper angle part supposed to go in the vise to hold it securley. |
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Sine plates are normally used with gage blocks or spacer blocks. They
would mostly be used with a surface grinder or for very light cuts on a mill. Depending on the model, some are held down just by the weight of the plate and the arced clamps while others also have clamps on the pivots. see the url below for some more instructions. http://www.auto-met.com/subtool/stcat/st_136.html Jon Elson wrote: wrote: Just starting out, I have a sine plate with one end as a hinge. It has a small locking bracket but it could not take any pressure, Is the upper angle part supposed to go in the vise to hold it securley. Generally you put a stack of spacer blocks under the upper round bar to set the angle. Spacer blocks are lower-precision gauge blocks, often with a threaded hole so they can be stacked up on a setscrew. Jon |
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wrote: Just starting out, I have a sine plate with one end as a hinge. It has a small locking bracket but it could not take any pressure, Is the upper angle part supposed to go in the vise to hold it securley. snip From what I have seen, sine plates and bars are mainly used in low force applications such as layout and grinding. It is possible to align the part to a given angle, bolt this onto a right angle iron, and then transfer the right angle iron with part onto a mill table. In home shop / educational setting, I have had the best luck using a magnetic sine bar and test indicator to get the correct angle in a regular milling vise. You can do compound angles with a little math by angling the part in the mill vise and then rotating the vise. PITA. GmcD GmcD |
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