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Is It Still Stupid If It Works
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Is It Still Stupid If It Works
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
news http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/att...4&d=1543445597 Don't know yet if it worked. Mine is a no-name copy of this more rigid and compact 5C indexer on an angle plate: https://www.kalamazooind.com/product...exing-fixture/ I milled the base of a second indexer parallel to fit securely in the milling vise, to hold the work horizontal for cross-drilling or cutting hex wrench flats. |
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On 11/28/2018 4:29 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote: "Bob La Londe" wrote in message news http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/att...4&d=1543445597 Don't know yet if it worked. Mine is a no-name copy of this more rigid and compact 5C indexer on an angle plate: https://www.kalamazooind.com/product...exing-fixture/ I milled the base of a second indexer parallel to fit securely in the milling vise, to hold the work horizontal for cross-drilling or cutting hex wrench flats. Nice. I just have two of those cheap spindexers. I can get them straight enough bolting them to the table, but it takes a while. I'm hoping for non-critical jobs I can just throw them in the mill vises (have two on the table of that machine) facing each other to support round stock that needs a lot of holes drilled. I'm a little to OCD to be lining up a pair of import mill vises all the time after taking them off. LOL. Just got the vises back on the table. A pair of six inchers about 5 inches apart. The first one landed on the table within half thousandth of square. Unfortunately the hard jaw has a 4 tenths bow so I fiddled with it for 20 minutes. LOL. The second one wasn't even close. Got it closed and spent another half hour getting it square and in line. Now I have about 6 tenths out of square over 17 inches. It might be a hair better. Doesn't really matter. I use soft jaws and skim cut them (step in the bottom for clearance so I can) square in place anyway. Anyway, tomorrow I'll find out if I made those indexers easier to use or if I was just spinning my wheels. By the way, it was somebody in this group who suggested the setup I used to mill them square. Set the cylinder on a pair of parallels and clamp the foot to a right angle block. Then mill both sides of both indexers to the same machine height. I hope it worked. If not I can always just bolt them to the table and break out the indicator and the brass hammer like I did before. |
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