Tee Slotted Cross Slide & nut
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Originally Posted by
pipeclay
I maybe able to supply you with a Tee Slotted Cross Slide but I would need to know before you make your nut if interested price would be under $400.
Thanks for that, unfortunately my parole officer is limiting my spending on "toys" at the moment so that one will have to go on the back burner for now, but I will keep it in mind.
The idea of drilling and tapping the existing nut to the larger screw size was partially to save money as well.
My biggest problem at the moment is the epoxy, apparently the guy at 3M was talking through his hat (according to some of their retailers). I can still get the 3M 1838B/A epoxy in 50 ml kits @ $44.72 + GST per kit, but it is a min order of 6 kits, and 25 days USA.
The correct epoxy adhesive for Turcite is called Waylock it's not a 3M product. Waylock adhesive is made by Trelleborg, it's very expensive, only available in large quantities and and it is not imported into Australia.
3M 1838B/A epoxy is apparently the next best thing.
Guess I'll just keep at it.
Cheers
Tex
Turcite application and scraping videos
Hi Guys,
For anyone interested in Turcite application and scraping you will find some excellent videos at Vintage machinery.org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpSKiQRrWo
And one of my other YouTube machine shop favourites is This Old Tony: https://www.youtube.com/user/featony
I have learnt a heap of stuff on both those channels.
Cheers
Tex.
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Baking, Turcite, epoxy & scraping
Hi Guys,
Everything went on the back burner for some months whilst i did an intensive course in building a large LiFePO4 prismatic cell battery and BMS system for the van. :rolleyes:
Anyway I did get as far as epoxying the Turcite to the saddle and scraping it in, it all actually went brilliantly, had to bake the cross slide twice and clean in white spirit to get rid of all the soaked in oils etc.
Hope to get back to the project next week.
Cheers
Tex