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Trepanning and Parting Off
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In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: I had to fold the "References: " header again. It got too long for jove to accept on a single line. :-) Then I had to create my own } Message-Id: because that was where jove was snipping things off when following-up. Perhaps we should start trimming the end of the References header every reply if we're going to keep this long a thread going. Of course, it will mess up threading, but at least it won't hit the 1024 byte line length limit on jove -- or force me to move to emacs. :-) I never delved into how the threading mechanism works, and the nesting gets pretty deep and sometimes complex, but perhaps there is a clever way to prune. Well ... my approach -- pre-folding the header and starting every extra one with a tab at the left margin was too successful. The system accepted it as a properly folded header, and straightened it out again. I've folded again, and after the first few, I've introduced an "X-References: " header Perhaps it's best to start a daughter thread of the same title. We would have to edit out the existing "References: " to make it be accepted as a new thread. Essentially, the newsreader takes the "References: " header's contents which represents a long string of messages, gets older messages by "Message-Id: ", and finds all of the articles which reference those to build up the full thread tree. Of course, Windows newsreaders (like OE) and some others simply use the "Subject: " header contents and ignore the "References: " totally. And -- they also Take any two-character start to the Subject header which is followed by a ':' and delete it, replacing all of them it finds with a single "". It assumes that anything of that format is "" in some language or other, which results in attempts to mark a thread as off-topic by prepending "OT: " to the "Subject: " header results in it being stripped off the first time it passes through OE. :-( Of course -- if people would stop using the ':', it would work as desired. On 2008-05-09, Joseph Gwinn wrote: In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: [ ... ] O.K. And if the tip has a shallow 'V' in the top, it will make the chip narrower than the slot, to reduce the chances of catching. Yes, although I have not had that problem if I can prevent self-feeding and overly thick chips. O.K. Most of the stuff I would cut off are not that large, so a narrower blade is also useful, and it reduces the force causing all the problems. O.K. [ ... ] So -- make your own using the design of the Aloris one. The main trick is getting the dovetail width and depth right. The trick for measuring the width is to measure between two pieces of drill rod pushed into the 'V's. Hmm. The BXA-7R would be a lot of trouble to duplicate in full, but it is certainly practical to duplicate the BXA dovetail, allowing me to make special BXA toolholders. Yes -- and you could make a rear-mounted toolpost whose sole purpose is to mount a parting tool, so it does not have the two dovetails, just the one, and can be locked by pulling in the rear dovetail (the one away from the centerline of the spindle) with a through bolt and a nut, since it does not need to be quick change. This could get the blade a lot closer to the bolt which holds it down. You could even pass that bolt partially through the dovetail -- and give the rear post a foot which extends under the actual parting tool to make it less likely to tilt under cutting forces. Of course -- you would want a cross-slide which had rear T-slots to do it properly. I've also been looking at the Aloris holder for SGIH blades, BXA-77. However, it isn't clear that one can use upsidedown blades in this holder, as the bevels on the blade are not symmetrical. Perhaps the best solution is to install a cutoff tool bar with rectangular shank upsidedown in a regular tool holder. Perhaps. Or make something which you can clamp in the regular holder but which will hold the blade of your choice upside down. I received a somewhat beat up Hardinge C31 cutoff blade holder with the lathe. The C31 is designed to be clamped in the slot of a toolholder in their CHNC line. Google for "HARDINGE CHNC TOOLING.PDF". O.K. A starting point. It will go in the slot of a BXA-1 won't it? Nor would it be difficult to make one's own mirror image C31. The only problem with this approach is the large overhang, 3.5" versus 2" from the center of the 5/8-20 bolt clamping the toolpost to the slide. That is why the design modifications I suggested to a rear-mount toolpost specifically for the parting tool. One could make a mirror-image C31 with a BXA dovetail, but the two designs are pulling in different directions. The C31 has a very deep horizontal slit which closes slightly when two hex socket cap screws are tightened, thus bringing the top and bottom of the blade groove together, clamping the blade. The bending caused by clamping would tend to distort the dovetail, unless a second slit were provided. The second slit would orphan part of the dovetail. This needs some design analysis. I think I'll also troll in the catalogs of BXA-compatible toolpost vendors for ideas and/or products. O.K. Though I'll bet that you won't find much in the others which is not in the Aloris catalog. [ ... ] Mine had one thumbscrew and one cap screw, so I ordered a thumbscrew along with the leadscrew and T-nut for the cross-slide. I may do the same. I'm close to ordering a T-nut for the cross-slide screw. They were pretty cheap when I got mine -- at least by comparison with everything else which I ordered. (Oh yes -- the felts for the carriage-to-ways interface were pretty cheap, too. Felts. The left front carriage wiper always leaves a black dirty-oil trail in the bed way. Solvent cleaning didn't help, although continuous flushing by over-oiling with Vactra #2 is helping. What happens if you remove the felt from under the cover and just squish it in a vise or in pliers? Does it squirt out black goo then? If so, then it is time to purchase or make replacements. Start with an arch punch to cut out circles of the right diameter, then a guillotine to cut the flat on the bottom and a leather punch to punch the screw hole, and you can make new ones from high density felt (which you can get from MSC or McMaster Carr in lifetime supply quantities (and only in such quantities. :-) I should see if the black is coming from the carriage versus the felt, as I have not yet disassembled and cleaned this part of the lathe. Yes -- you should. If it is coming from under the carriage, then it suggests that the carriage ways are worn into a shallow arc, which could contribute to your chatter problems. Then it would be time to look for a replacement on eBay, or to explore the special compounds used to make replacement ways. Ah yes -- "Moglice" is the name, I was struggling for it for a bit. :-) [ ... ] O.K. I'm retired too long to have the money to buy more large tools, so that will simply be filed in memory somewhere in case I win a *real* lottery instead of all the fake ones I get e-mails about. :-) Who knows. Maybe that nice man from West Africa will arrive with the $20 million he promised. Maybe. Have you noticed that the recent ones (or at least some of them) *admit* that the previous ones were scams, and purport to be the government of Nigeria trying to set things right. :-) More seriously, I'm wondering if the more expensive machine might prove cheaper, as I will probably end up spending the difference on new parts. Although it has certainly been educational. There is something to be said for educational -- especially if you don't seriously *need* to use the machine yet. :-) [ ... ] Even with eight years of inflation, not such a bad price. One problem I had with getting stuff from Gold Machinery was the distance. Perhaps it was not as big a problem as feared. Perhaps. But the prices will probably change on a day-to-day basis with the fuel costs. True enough, but probably not the biggest cost. It may well be just that at today's fuel prices -- especially bearing in mind that diesel now costs more than gasoline. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Trepanning and Parting Off / Long references list
On Fri, 09 May 2008 11:21:48 -0400, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: I had to fold the "References: " header again. It got too long for jove to accept on a single line. :-) Then I had to create my own } Message-Id: because that was where jove was snipping things off when following-up. Perhaps we should start trimming the end of the References header every reply if we're going to keep this long a thread going. Of course, it will mess up threading, but at least it won't hit the 1024 byte line length limit on jove -- or force me to move to emacs. :-) I never delved into how the threading mechanism works, and the nesting gets pretty deep and sometimes complex, but perhaps there is a clever way to prune. You or DoN could delete a few references out of the middle of the list. Note, if you turn off MT-NewsWatcher's Message-ID generation as at http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/docs/Person...#no_message_ID and let the news server generate message id's instead, I think you'll get somewhat shorter id's. Your id's are like: which is about 25% longer than the average server-generated message id and about 50% longer than the pan-generated id's in my posts, which are short due to a short fake domain name. slrn and MTNW could do likewise, although id collisions can occur in certain cases; eg, if two pan users with same domain post articles within the same second. Perhaps it's best to start a daughter thread of the same title. Sacrilege. -jiw |
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Trepanning and Parting Off / Long references list
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James Waldby wrote: On Fri, 09 May 2008 11:21:48 -0400, Joseph Gwinn wrote: In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: I had to fold the "References: " header again. It got too long for jove to accept on a single line. :-) Then I had to create my own } Message-Id: because that was where jove was snipping things off when following-up. Perhaps we should start trimming the end of the References header every reply if we're going to keep this long a thread going. Of course, it will mess up threading, but at least it won't hit the 1024 byte line length limit on jove -- or force me to move to emacs. :-) I never delved into how the threading mechanism works, and the nesting gets pretty deep and sometimes complex, but perhaps there is a clever way to prune. You or DoN could delete a few references out of the middle of the list. Note, if you turn off MT-NewsWatcher's Message-ID generation as at http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/docs/Person...#no_message_ID and let the news server generate message id's instead, I think you'll get somewhat shorter id's. Your id's are like: which is about 25% longer than the average server-generated message id and about 50% longer than the pan-generated id's in my posts, which are short due to a short fake domain name. slrn and MTNW could do likewise, although id collisions can occur in certain cases; eg, if two pan users with same domain post articles within the same second. If I turn off local msg id generation, aren't collisions more likely? Perhaps it's best to start a daughter thread of the same title. Sacrilege. Sounds simpler though. Also helps handle topic drift. Joe Gwinn |
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote: Lines: 155 In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: I had to fold the "References: " header again. It got too long for jove to accept on a single line. :-) Then I had to create my own } Message-Id: because that was where jove was snipping things off when following-up. Perhaps we should start trimming the end of the References header every reply if we're going to keep this long a thread going. Of course, it will mess up threading, but at least it won't hit the 1024 byte line length limit on jove -- or force me to move to emacs. :-) I never delved into how the threading mechanism works, and the nesting gets pretty deep and sometimes complex, but perhaps there is a clever way to prune. Well ... my approach -- pre-folding the header and starting every extra one with a tab at the left margin was too successful. The system accepted it as a properly folded header, and straightened it out again. I've folded again, and after the first few, I've introduced an "X-References: " header Perhaps it's best to start a daughter thread of the same title. We would have to edit out the existing "References: " to make it be accepted as a new thread. Essentially, the newsreader takes the "References: " header's contents which represents a long string of messages, gets older messages by "Message-Id: ", and finds all of the articles which reference those to build up the full thread tree. This sounds like far too much effort compared to spawning daughter threads as needed. Of course, Windows newsreaders (like OE) and some others simply use the "Subject: " header contents and ignore the "References: " totally. And -- they also Take any two-character start to the Subject header which is followed by a ':' and delete it, replacing all of them it finds with a single "". It assumes that anything of that format is "" in some language or other, which results in attempts to mark a thread as off-topic by prepending "OT: " to the "Subject: " header results in it being stripped off the first time it passes through OE. :-( Another bit of evidence of MS's deep respect for standards. Of course -- if people would stop using the ':', it would work as desired. Of course, in English syntax anyway, the colon is the correct punctuation mark to use. On 2008-05-09, Joseph Gwinn wrote: In article , "DoN. Nichols" wrote: [ ... ] So -- make your own [blade holder] using the design of the Aloris one. The main trick is getting the dovetail width and depth right. The trick for measuring the width is to measure between two pieces of drill rod pushed into the 'V's. Hmm. The BXA-7R would be a lot of trouble to duplicate in full, but it is certainly practical to duplicate the BXA dovetail, allowing me to make special BXA toolholders. Yes -- and you could make a rear-mounted toolpost whose sole purpose is to mount a parting tool, so it does not have the two dovetails, just the one, and can be locked by pulling in the rear dovetail (the one away from the centerline of the spindle) with a through bolt and a nut, since it does not need to be quick change. This could get the blade a lot closer to the bolt which holds it down. You could even pass that bolt partially through the dovetail -- and give the rear post a foot which extends under the actual parting tool to make it less likely to tilt under cutting forces. I can visualize a number of ways to do this, but they all sound a bit over-extended and floppy. I think that if I make anything, it will a for front-mounting an upsidedown blade, to be used with lathe in reverse. Of course -- you would want a cross-slide which had rear T-slots to do it properly. That's the problem. I have the ordinary one-slot tool slide, and it does not have the reach to allow use of rear parting tools. I've also been looking at the Aloris holder for SGIH blades, BXA-77. However, it isn't clear that one can use upsidedown blades in this holder, as the bevels on the blade are not symmetrical. Perhaps the best solution is to install a cutoff tool bar with rectangular shank upsidedown in a regular tool holder. Perhaps. Or make something which you can clamp in the regular holder but which will hold the blade of your choice upside down. I received a somewhat beat up Hardinge C31 cutoff blade holder with the lathe. The C31 is designed to be clamped in the slot of a toolholder in their CHNC line. Google for "HARDINGE CHNC TOOLING.PDF". O.K. A starting point. It will go in the slot of a BXA-1 won't it? It will. The attachment stub plate is 0.438" thick (the clamping dimension) by 0.5" deep (into the BXA-1 slot) by 1.25" long. Nor would it be difficult to make one's own mirror image C31. The only problem with this approach is the large overhang, 3.5" versus 2" from the center of the 5/8-20 bolt clamping the toolpost to the slide. That is why the design modifications I suggested to a rear-mount toolpost specifically for the parting tool. One could make a mirror-image C31 with a BXA dovetail, but the two designs are pulling in different directions. The C31 has a very deep horizontal slit which closes slightly when two hex socket cap screws are tightened, thus bringing the top and bottom of the blade groove together, clamping the blade. The bending caused by clamping would tend to distort the dovetail, unless a second slit were provided. The second slit would orphan part of the dovetail. This needs some design analysis. I think I'll also troll in the catalogs of BXA-compatible toolpost vendors for ideas and/or products. O.K. Though I'll bet that you won't find much in the others which is not in the Aloris catalog. Yes and no. Phase II and DTM seem to have only a subset of the Aloris range, but Dorian Tool in particular seems to have their own ideas and products. I'm looking at the Dorian D30BXA-7-71C, which looks capable of full reversal and is it's own mirror image, looks like the best bet. The Dorian D30BXA-771, which is billed as "universal" but not reversible, seems less suited to use with upsidedown blades. [ ... ] Mine had one thumbscrew and one cap screw, so I ordered a thumbscrew along with the leadscrew and T-nut for the cross-slide. I may do the same. I'm close to ordering a T-nut for the cross-slide screw. They were pretty cheap when I got mine -- at least by comparison with everything else which I ordered. (Oh yes -- the felts for the carriage-to-ways interface were pretty cheap, too. Felts. The left front carriage wiper always leaves a black dirty-oil trail in the bed way. Solvent cleaning didn't help, although continuous flushing by over-oiling with Vactra #2 is helping. What happens if you remove the felt from under the cover and just squish it in a vise or in pliers? Does it squirt out black goo then? If so, then it is time to purchase or make replacements. Start with an arch punch to cut out circles of the right diameter, then a guillotine to cut the flat on the bottom and a leather punch to punch the screw hole, and you can make new ones from high density felt (which you can get from MSC or McMaster Carr in lifetime supply quantities (and only in such quantities. :-) The felt is very hard, and does not squish. I think it is solidified with hardened cutting oil. I bet I have the original felts all around. I should see if the black is coming from the carriage versus the felt, as I have not yet disassembled and cleaned this part of the lathe. Yes -- you should. If it is coming from under the carriage, then it suggests that the carriage ways are worn into a shallow arc, which could contribute to your chatter problems. Then it would be time to look for a replacement on eBay, or to explore the special compounds used to make replacement ways. Ah yes -- "Moglice" is the name, I was struggling for it for a bit. :-) Hmm. I don't think that this is a significant problem, but I'll test for this. The simplest approach is to mount a dial indicator on the carriage with the indicator probe tip riding the the flat tailstock way, and crank the carriage back and forth (to test the bed ways) and torque the carriage for-and-aft with a bar in a boring bar holder (to see if the bottom of the carriage is shaped like a boat hull). I would think that the rocking would be constrained by the hold-down plates. [ ... ] O.K. I'm retired too long to have the money to buy more large tools, so that will simply be filed in memory somewhere in case I win a *real* lottery instead of all the fake ones I get e-mails about. :-) Who knows. Maybe that nice man from West Africa will arrive with the $20 million he promised. Maybe. Have you noticed that the recent ones (or at least some of them) *admit* that the previous ones were scams, and purport to be the government of Nigeria trying to set things right. :-) I've seen those. And the ones that purport to come from other than Nigeria, but have the same story and sure sound like Nigerian English. And often use all caps. Retirement is a few years away for me. More seriously, I'm wondering if the more expensive machine might prove cheaper, as I will probably end up spending the difference on new parts. Although it has certainly been educational. There is something to be said for educational -- especially if you don't seriously *need* to use the machine yet. :-) There is that. [ ... ] Even with eight years of inflation, not such a bad price. One problem I had with getting stuff from Gold Machinery was the distance. Perhaps it was not as big a problem as feared. Perhaps. But the prices will probably change on a day-to-day basis with the fuel costs. True enough, but probably not the biggest cost. It may well be just that at today's fuel prices -- especially bearing in mind that diesel now costs more than gasoline. Well, it will be at least a year before I contemplate buying another machine, and we will have a different set of problems by then. Joe Gwinn |
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