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    The last time I cut a keyway on the lathe, I just used a small piece of HSS blank. I ground it down to the size needed and put it straight in the tool holder. Apart from the cutter clearance angles, which was ground in the tool, the rake was adjusted by rotating the toolpost.

    The fiddliest bit was ensureing the tool was cutting at the correct height to ensure a symmetrical groove but that was done by eye anyway and it turned out fine.

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    Also sometimes it works better if you have two cutters, a narrow one and a finishing tool.

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    Hi Guys,

    When I did my keyways, I locked the spindle with the backgear and rotated the work piece until it was positioned where I wanted the keyway to be. Setting centre hight was quite easy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phaser View Post
    I've managed to cut some of the first keyway but it's very slow
    Yes it is a slow way to do a keyway because a lathe is not designed for this, so patience is needed
    to nibble your way through the job.

    Quote Originally Posted by phaser View Post
    and seems to be making a tapered slot because it pushes away from the job (springs) .
    You need to do more passes at the same DOC to clean up the taper, the lathe also would probably be flexing.

    Quote Originally Posted by phaser View Post
    Can't see why. I thought the grind I put on it would be good.
    You will quickly wear a flat at the cutting edge if you drag the tool back through the cut, effectively
    removing your tool relief, have look with a magnifying glass.

    As Simon said earlier you can rotate the tool around a bit and regain some clearance.

    To stop this happening you need to back the tool away from the work on the return stroke then reset your DOC
    for the next cut.

    cheers, shed

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    Thanx RC

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    Default Um hope i can explain this well

    An idea that i have done befor is press a plug into the gear so that it is like the gear has no hole.
    Then center punch the gear where it joins the plug. Drill a hole the same diameter or slightly smaller than the size of the key. Press the plug back out of the gear hole. Now tou have a half round key way nearly the right size in the hole of your gear.
    Finish this to a square key way either by
    Using your lathe as a slotter. With a boring bar or carfully filing the half round slot into a square key way.
    Ive used this method successfully a few times.
    To fashion a boring tool thats suitable use round hss in a piece of bar secured buy a grub screw. As suggested buy others im sure.
    Also i have some home made boring tools that are simply hss arc welded to the end of a piece of bar. I didnt make them but they work fine.
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    I did as suggested by moving the cutter away before withdrawing it each time, and had better success. I kept the cuts at .002 or less.
    The cutter was blunting way too fast originally so I'd say the heat from silver soldering it had ruined the hardness of the HSS. I've done a similar thing many times before by using a 60deg HSS cutter to make finger grips on the outside of knobs I made and never had the cutter blunt at all and I never moved the cutter away before withdrawing it during the process.

    The blanks turned out really good but I did find the key slot narrowed a smidgen as it got to the bottom. That's from wear in the width of the cutter, so I had to finish them with a 3 cornered file.

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    Getting a lot closer to cutting these gears now.

    The shaft is 10mm spigot at the bottom, 12mm at the top, 18mm for the gear blank and 16mm threads (because I can cut 2mm pitch with the gears I've got).


    Shaft between centres and a drive dog.

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    Actually, I got really lucky here. The last thing I did to the shaft was the top thread. I almost had it finished when I noticed the drive dog was loose.....Could have ended up with a really screwed up thread and ruined the whole thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phaser View Post

    Actually, I got really lucky here. The last thing I did to the shaft was the top thread. I almost had it finished when I noticed the drive dog was loose.....Could have ended up with a really screwed up thread and ruined the whole thing.
    Been watching doubleboost? He did that exactly last week....

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    Nice save, I hate when things go wrong after so much work.

    I was turning a m6 LH thread 30mm long in stainless steel on the lathe about a month ago, just for a trial peice while waiting for a L/H die from AliExpress.
    I knew it was a pushing it since I was not using a center to support it, then the 2nd last cut it climbed the HSS and wrecked it completely.
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    I tig welded a 6x6x100mm hss tool i had cut 10mm off one end and welded it onto the tip for boring on the lathe it worked really well but i ground the point the wrong way lol it has been the only tool not needing to be sharpen will see if i can find the pic when i get on the laptop its in one of my threads on here

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    Quote Originally Posted by russ57 View Post
    Been watching doubleboost? He did that exactly last week....

    Russ
    What? you mean his dog came loose ?
    Yeah I've seen a few of his videos. Do you have a link for that particular one ?

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    By the way .... This gear cutting jig design is by way of a South Australian guy on youtube and he calls his channel Zynudu .
    Many thanks to him.

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    Do you have a Mill and Rotary Table with either degree or dividing plates to suit the gears to be cut?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pipeclay View Post
    Do you have a Mill and Rotary Table with either degree or dividing plates to suit the gears to be cut?
    No, on both scores there. Hence why I need to do it this way.

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