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28th Sep 2020, 10:44 PM #346
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Looking good.
I’ve got the same size/type of bar and yes, they do sing!
I really need a 16mm one as I had to use it for a 80mm deep 20 diameter hole recently. Only needed a couple of 0.5mm cuts but the flex even with that DOC was significant. Two spring passes took the hole from not even close to getting the pin in - straight to being quite a sloppy fit. Caught me out a bit.
Steve
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29th Sep 2020, 02:13 AM #347
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your post !
I went and bought this one, not because I needed a boring bar, but because of the number of people that insist that they are the best thing ! So I thought that I would use it on this job with it being a deep hole and starting from a 16 mm drilled hole. I must confess that I tried all the tricks that I knew to shut it up, the most effective in reducing the singing being a heavy cut of 25 thou. I even put a brand new insert in, but it made no difference.
I expected the hole to become tapered, but using a pair of spring callipers, I really couldn't tell the difference from one end to the other. So I persevered with trying to find a sweet spot.
If I'm honest I have a 12 mm square HSS boring bar which I could have used when I got the bore size to 17 mm diameter. As it happens the 20 mm end mill that I was using as a plug gauge went in the bore but was very tight, I ended up knocking it out with a piece of 1/4 rod down the spindle.
Since I had already moved the cross slide I resorted to a piece of dowel and a strip of 600 grit emery cloth and oil. The result was a very nicely polished bore that runs up and down the mounting column comfortably, with just a smear of oil.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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29th Sep 2020, 02:55 AM #348
More work on the motor mounting !
Hi Guys,
I've been doing some more on the motor mounting block and motor support plate.
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I marked out the column side of the motor mounting block and drilled the four 5 mm holes 15 mm deep, M6 tapping size and proceeded the to tap the threads in them being careful not to break the tap by hitting the bottom of the blind holes. I took the sharp edge of the threaded holes with a countersink tool.
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After drilling and threading the motor mounting block, I marked out and drilled the aluminium plate with the four 1/4" diameter holes and counter sunk them to suit M6 hex countersunk screws. The four holes in the corners of the plate are sized to suit the mounting holes in the Parvalux motor feet.
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This picture shows the assembly of the mounting block and the motor mounting plate.
I need to work out the fastening details for the grinding spindle mountings that will be on the other side to the motor. I'll post those details later.
Now onto the next job !
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One of the items that is needed is the split cotter that will be used to lock the motor mounting block to the column. The second picture shows how the split collet will grip the column when it is in place inside the motor mounting block.
As you will have seen in the previous pictures, the 12 mm diameter steel pin was placed in the hole in the motor mounting block before the hole for the column was machined. In order to do this the pin was drilled right through with a 5 mm drill and the ends threaded M6 to enable cap screws to be fitted to secure it.
After machining the 20 mm hole for the column the pin for the split cotter was removed and cut in half so that the scallop was equal on both sides. Then one half of the pin had the threads completed all the way through the pin. The other half of the pin was drilled 6 mm all the way through to clear the M6 by 30 mm cap screw used to pull both half’s together when in place thus locking the motor mounting block to the column.
I drilled the flat end of the non threaded pin using a 10 mm slot drill, to get a flat bottomed hole that the head of the cap screw would sit in without protruding.
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These two pictures show the motor mounting block along with the column, threaded rod and the split collet in place. The second picture shows how it will look when set up on the grinder base.
That is all for now, there is still lots to do before I can call this project done !
Thanks for looking Guys.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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10th Oct 2020, 12:49 AM #349
More work on the Grindling Spindle !
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all the likes and thanks given, I do appreciate them !
I've been looking around for a few weeks for some suitable thick wall steel tube that I could machine to make some collars 20.80 mm in diameter, that would fit into the 21 mm bore of the spindle housing and go between the outers of the end bearing races.
I found a piece the other day, about 100 mm long. I put it in the three jaw chuck and turned the diameter down by just over 1/2 a mm. After which I then bored it out to give me a 2 mm thick wall, these are the two large bits of tube that you can see in the family picture at the bottom of this post..
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Here you can see the piece of tube in the lathe after turning to size. It machined extremely well with an excellent surface finish. I needed two collars of about 20 mm in length, so I just cut two pieces off this tube using the bandsaw and then cleaned up and deburred the ends on the lathe.
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These pictures show the reason that I needed the two collars !
Assembling the spindle cartridge with the bearings held on their outer edges meant that when the end caps were screwed in the bearing outer races would be trapped against the internal collar and the end caps. This meant that the spindle was free to move in the bearing inner races. By holding one end of the spindle in the lathe three jaw chuck the cartridge outer was free to move end wise. By setting up a dial gauge in the tool holder, I could now measure the amount of end float in the spindle. As can be seen, this end play amounted to 3 thou. So I now knew that I needed to shim the spindle by three thou to remove the end float.
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I had some paper that was two thou thick ! So I made a punch to knock a 12 mm diameter hole in some and then cut it to form a round washer whilst it was on the spindle pressed against the shoulder.
The pictures show the washers on the spindle and the first picture is of the practice one. Whilst the two paper washers amount to four thou thickness, the one thou difference doesn’t cause the bearings to tighten up. This also allows me to measure by how much material I need to remove to adjust the length of inner collars, these are the small ones in the family picture, to allow for the clamping force by the pulleys mounted on the ends of the spindle.
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These are the family pictures. The spindle cartridge can be seen at the top with the spindle below it. The ends of the spindle are symmetrical so from the ends. The threaded end cap, the outer bearing, the two collars, inner and outer ones, the inner bearing.
The end caps are threaded one right hand and the other left hand threads. These end caps contain the pair of Teflon labyrinth seals and the sleeve that bears against the bearing inner race that the Teflon seals run on.
Thanks for looking Guys.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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14th Oct 2020, 07:33 PM #350
Spindle Mounting !
Hi Guys,
Now that I've got the grinding spindle finished and fitted the drive pulley, I've got to mount it on the motor block. To do this I propose to use some 15 mm thick alloy plate that I have in stock. I need two side plates, one mounted on each side of the motor mounting block.
After machining all sharp edges should be deburred.
I've done a drawing of the parts that I need. Showing what I am going to do.
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The blue areas are drilled 5 mm diameter holes that are then threaded M6.
The order of work is to do all the drilling of the 5 mm holes first. The ones on the right, done first, are very deep drilling’s and care should be taken to avoid them running off, since a 5 mm drill is quite slender and will bend if too much pressure is applied during drilling. I use diesel fuel as a cutting lubricant and a sharp drill when drilling deep holes in hard aluminium plate. I don't know what grade this stuff I have is but it is almost like a soft steel.
I propose to saw the right hand end of the plate off on a line through the centre of the 29.5 mm hole as shown on the drawing after drilling the 5 mm holes and before doing anything else.
After cutting off the end pieces these holes are opened out to clear an M6 thread then counter bored afterwards to suit M6 cap screw heads. Note: a commercial counter boring tool will have a spigot that is far larger than an M6 drilled hole. and will make the through hole over size. I would suggest using a 10 mm drill to make the screw head counter bore.
Once the end piece is cut off and the holes through the end piece drilled out to clear an M6 screw and the 5 mm holes in the body plate can be threaded M6. At this point the end piece can be fastened back onto the body plate and secured ready for boring the large hole.
The last step is to put both side plates into the four jaw chuck on the lathe and to bore the 29.5 mm diameter hole. This hole will be used to hold the grinding spindle cartridge with the end piece clamping it in place. It is important the the grinding spindle is square to both the motor and the base of the grinder table.
The small 12.5 mm hole in the plates is to allow access to the split collet securing screw .
The two M6 threaded holes on the left hand ends of the side plates are used to mount the side plates to the motor mounting plate. I have not shown these holes on the motor mounting plate drawing because the mounting block width is not a critical dimension and these holes can be drilled to suit your mounting block.
More later when I've made these parts and taken some pictures of them.
Thanks for looking guys.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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16th Oct 2020, 03:20 AM #351
Spindle mounting plates !
Hi Guys,
I've been busy cutting pieces of 15 mm aluminium plate and machining to size as per drawing in previous post.
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This picture is the central block that is intended to support the motor and the grinding spindle cartridge. The two side plates are secured to the motor mounting plate by M6 hex countersunk screws. At the moment I haven't done the countersinks on the holes but that is a a job for later.
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In order to allow access to the split collet clamp screw each side plate required a hole drilling in it. In order to make sure that these holes were in the right place, I used a transfer punch. This consisted of a piece of 6 mm diameter rod with a point turned on one end. By using the drilled out half of the split collet the hole centres were marked on the side plates. You can see the 6 mm diameter rod in this picture.
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The other end of the side plates were marked and drilled with a 5 mm drill to a depth of 40 mm. After which I cut the top section off using the bandsaw. This allowed me access to thread the holes in the side plates M6, and drill out the 5 mm holes in the top pieces to 6 mm. This makes the M6 cap screws a close fit in the holes allowing the cut off piece to be accurately refitted and clamped to the side plates.
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This picture shows the side plates along with the cut off pieces. The coloured marker has been used to identify which end piece belongs to which side plate.
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Now that I have the side plates drilled for the split clamp screw access, I've prepared them for boring out by putting a 10 thou shim between them and clamped them together with 30 mm long M6 cap screws. You can just see the shims between the side plate and the top part. They still have to be counter bored so that the cap screw head will be below the surface of the top part.
The shims will allow the grinding spindle cartridge to be securely clamped when the side plates are bored out.
I was originally going to use the four jaw chuck on the lathe, but have discovered that my chuck isn't big enough to hold them. Unfortunately the 9 inch face plate will only allow one piece to be held without the work fastenings hitting the lathe bed. So the fall back position is to drill and bore each side plate using the mill and boring head.
So that is the next job. More later.
Thanks for looking Guys.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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17th Oct 2020, 03:27 AM #352
One side plate done !
Hi Guys,
Well after a good start setting up to drill and bore the side plates, getting all lined up and centred on the hole position, I drilled a 6 mm pilot hole through the plate. At first I thought that the mill had developed another problem, then it dawned on me that the metallic clicking sound that I could hear was the corner of the drill catching the cut edge of the aluminium plate where I had used shims to create a gap between the two parts.
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In these pictures you can see the setup in the mill vise. The vise stop on the left hand side.
Some time ago I used a hole saw to remove the waste from the middle of a hole, so because I had a 32 mm hole saw I thought that I would use it to take out the centre of the hole. Well that was a bad idea ! Not only did it wobble badly but it threatened to make a hole that would be at least a millimetre too big. So I resorted to using a one inch diameter blacksmiths drill that I have.
Just for those that might not know, a blacksmiths drill is a drill that would be larger than 1/2" inch in diameter and has a reduced diameter shank of 1/2" diameter. The idea is that it will fit into a 1/2" or 13 mm drill chuck whereas a large drill wouldn't. They are also a lot cheaper than a large drill on an MT2 or greater shank.
Well that worked well taking out 25.4 mm quite easily.
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After this I changed to the 65 mm "Sorba" boring head that I have. It is a very nice boring head, calibrated in hundredths of a mm, so it was easy to get close to the 39.5 mm diameter that I wanted. I also had a piece of material that was the correct diameter that I used as a plug gauge to make sure that I didn't go too big and spoil the job.
These last pictures are of one side plate fitted and the grinding spindle cartridge held in it. When I clamped the cartridge I could barely get a 1.5 thou feeler gauge to fit into the gap. That calculated 10 thou could have done to be two or three thou more.
I didn't take any pictures of the actual boring out, but I will later.
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You can see in these two pictures the shims that I used laying on the white board just behind the side plate. Also the small timing pulley has been fitted on the grinding spindle end.
I'll machine the other side plate tomorrow and then we will see how it all goes together. I've also countersunk the fastening holes for the side plates, but I've yet to counter bore the caps so the cap screw heads are still proud of the top of the caps.
Thanks for looking Guys:Best Regards:
Baron J.
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18th Oct 2020, 02:08 AM #353
Motor and cartridge mount !
Hi Guys,
I've almost finished the work on the motor and grinding cartridge mountings. I finished boring the other side plate this morning then counter sunk the cap screw heads into the clamping pieces. I've put the whole lot together and it all fits very nicely.
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I promised a picture of boring out the mounting hole for the cartridge.
Sorry if this looks as if the picture was taken by candle light. I did try flash but it just burnt everything out, so this is just with the ring light and the adjustable one.
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A view of the bottom of the motor mounting plate with all the holes now countersunk and the side plates fastened to it with Pozidrive M6 counter sink screws. I've run out of hex drive ones.
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These two views are of the main support block screwed onto the motor mounting plate and with the side plates fastened on.
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These are the two cartridge securing caps now that I've counter bored them for the screw heads.
I used a 10 mm drill to a depth of 6 mm and then a 10 mm slot drill to get a flat bottomed hole rather than use commercial counter bores.
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Here I've just rested the cartridge in the side plates basically to check the alignment more than anything else prior to fitting the securing caps in place.
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Securing caps fitted and tightened down ! I can just get a 1 thou feeler gauge blade under each end of the caps without over tightening the screws. The spindle cartridge is as near as I can tell square to the mountings.
I'll find out how square when the whole thing is assembled onto its cross slides.
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Last few pictures with the motor mounted. I still need to drill and put a grub screw into the driving pulley on the motor shaft and find a suitable drive belt. The piece of 20 mm bar where the support column will be is there to prevent the split collet from falling out and the long piece of threaded rod will be used to adjust the grinding head height. Even though I've used aluminium for the bulk of this assembly its far heavier than I expected it to be.
That all for now folks, I'll post some more later as I get on with some of the other bits and pieces for this project.
Thanks for looking Guys.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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29th Oct 2020, 12:53 AM #354
Bearing for height adjuster !
Hi Guys,
I've started getting on with the height adjustment for the motor and grinding spindle assembly. The threaded rod that will be used to adjust the position of the grinding wheel on the support column sits in a bearing supported by a movable bracket that either sits on the bottom of the column or can be positioned anywhere on it secured by a split clamp.
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These pictures show the aluminium bracket and the threaded rod that will be used for height adjustment. The thirteen mm diameter bearing sits in a recess bored in one side of the bracket. In the second picture the split clamp is visible. In the third picture the threaded rod is located in the 5 mm bore of the bearing.
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This is the split clamp that will be used to secure the bracket on the column. Its made from a short piece of 12 mm diameter printer shaft with an M6 cap screw used to close the clamp onto the column.
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These pictures show the general arrangement. Note the grinding spindle cartridge and supports have been removed so that the general layout can be seen.
More later !
Thanks for looking.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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29th Oct 2020, 02:01 AM #355
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Looking good John.
Its taken me about 10mins to get my head around how it functions, but if I've got it right that clamp is the rough positioning of the head, both height and rotation, and the threaded rod gives you the fine control of height?
Steve
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29th Oct 2020, 07:45 PM #356
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your post, I'm also watching your press thread with interest.
Yes you have got it right ! The threaded rod just adjusts the height of the wheel head. Originally I was just going to put a bearing directly in the base end frame to support the threaded rod, but then realised that I might have to rotate the wheel head assembly for some jobs. That was when I decided that a lockable rotating support for the bottom bearing was desirable. I'll post some better pictures later.
The shaped alloy piece sits on the wheel head support column. I'm toying with making another to support the top of the threaded rod or just drilling the top of the column and putting a plate on there.
I've just bought a plastic box to put the electrics in, so I'm going to do that job next, then apart from wheel hubs the wheel head should be finished.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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30th Oct 2020, 01:10 AM #357
Starting on the Electrics !
Hi Guys,
I've purchased a suitable ABS plastic box that I intend to use to house the electrical items for the grinder work head.
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This is the plastic box. It is 105 X 80 X 38 mm and is deep enough to get all the parts need in it.
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I've cut a piece of 1 mm thick aluminium plate to make a bracket to fit the box onto. The plate is intended to fit under the motor mounting bolts and will be bent at 90 degrees so the it will sit over the motor body.
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In this picture there are three of the four items that the box will have fitted to it, the other item is the motor start & run capacitor. The IEC mains input connector is at the top with the on/off switch to its left. The small slide switch to the right will be used to change the motor's direction of rotation. I intend to position it so that it indicates the direction of rotation.
More about this part later !
Thanks for looking.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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31st Oct 2020, 10:29 AM #358
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Nice looking work on the motor/wheel head - your switches and IEC socket look like they have come out of my spares drawers.
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31st Oct 2020, 06:37 PM #359
Hi Familyguy, Guys,
Thanks for your post.
Yes ! You left them open, I nicked them when you weren’t looking
Actually I've since found a nice illuminated on/off switch and a better two pole one for direction. That little slide switch is only rated 50 volts DC, so no good anyway !
At the moment I'm turning the work shop upside down looking for some crimp nuts to go in the alloy base ! I don't think that there will be enough room to get your fingers under the plate to fit nuts and washers.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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2nd Nov 2020, 02:03 AM #360
Getting On !
Hi Guys,
Well I've had an interesting few days ! I bought a plastic box, and I got the mounting plate cut out and drilled in order to mount the box to it.
I knew that I had bag full of 4BA alloy crimp rivnuts from a box of 1000 that I bought some years ago. I turned the workshop upside down looking for them, anyway I must have missed them, because they were in a storage tray that I had already been through. However I did find a number of things that I had forgotten about, like a brand new milling vise, still in the packing it came in, and an "Electro Etch" engraving pen.
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These are the little beasties ! They are 8 mm long 4BA threaded crimpable nuts. They fit into a 4.8 mm hole and are 5 mm long when properly crimped with a 1.5 mm thick head.
Having found the nuts and the pop rivet crimping tool, I couldn't locate the mandrel that belongs with them.
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So I had to find some suitable steel rod, this is 4 mm drill rod, and turn it down to 0.140" thou so that I could put a 4BA thread on the end. A very quick single pointing job, though I admit that I ran a die over it because of the flex from the length stuck out from the chuck.
By the way this is the new "ARC Euro" 100 mm chuck that I bought. Its set up to have less than a thou of run out over the first 13 mm.
Then I discovered that the pop rivet tool would only grip a 3 mm diameter shaft. So I ended up extending the drill rod in the chuck and turning the part behind the threads down to 120" thou so that it would fit in the pop rivet tool.
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That done I now have a suitable mandrel for these rivnuts. Actually I now have two, the original mandrel was mixed in the bag with the nuts ! Still its nice to have a spare, the original ones used to break off if you tried to crimp them too hard.
Now to get on with machining the plastic box and fitting the components to it.
Thanks for looking and listening to my tale of frustration and woe.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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