Believe it or not I wish to make a fluted door handle, hence the material and lack of need for precision.
Similar to this one, but of a more elaborate nature.
I decided to put the table back without the front handwheel assembly working as I need this machine running as soon as possible.
Thank you all for your help.
Well I got the table back on, sans the anti backlash nut and accidently sheared the pins holding in the key for the front handwheel.
I guess I am an idiot.
Replacing those pins involves removing everything from the saddle, can I just solder or glue it back in?
My machine has a standard table.
The fixed nut appears to have something wrong with it, this morning I got it the engage, but it was incredibly stiff. This had nothing to do with the anti backlash mechanism as I later removed that and it was still stiff and would not thread in any further than...
Yes, I tried it blind, it is a pain to remove the leadscrew from the table because it is connected to a shaft through a gearbox at the end of the table.
I will try to find a drawing.
It seems to be the anti backlash nut, we tried adjusting it quite a bit, but no luck.
The leadscrew will not engage the fixed nut, except when the moving nut is removed.
We are considering just putting it on with the moving nut removed, but that is not ideal.
My idea was originally to use a dividing head and a dead centre on the other side, another idea I had was to make a few sets of holders for the rod sizes that I use.
But I was concerned about the rod bending in the middle as I will need to do rods up to 800mm long, that and dividing heads are...
I wish to mill some long fluted rods of a decorative nature (precision is therefore not so important a factor), but before I buy any accessories I thought I might ask about any alternative methods.
My original plan was to buy a dividing head, as it would allow a large number of flutes and come...
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