Last weekend's project

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Old Biker UK
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Last weekend's project

Post by Old Biker UK » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:55 pm

Been looking for a small tilting dividing head for sometime as there is not a lot of room under the quill of my old Fritz Werner mill.
Finally found this one and although the spindle has a Myford nose thread so would take my chucks, the bore was for some obscure collets. The alternative to trying to find such collets was to make a new spindle, bored MT2 so that I could use my Myford collets. Here is the result.
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BTW re the hole in the top (with the pointer) I can only think the reason for it is for an extension arm to take a tailstock centre, the hole does not go through onto the spindle so is not for a lock screw. If anyone knows what it is for I would be glad to hear.
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Jose Rivera
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True jewel

Post by Jose Rivera » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:19 pm

True jewel Old Biker, I wish there where more stuff like that still available.
There are no problems, only solutions.
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Retired journeyman machinist and 3D CAD mechanical designer - hobbyist - grandpa
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