My To-Do List Gadget
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NET.jpg' alt='My To-Do List Gadget' title='My To-Do List Gadget' />X1. I now have a couple more so I revised. This page is a chronological list of some of my projects so new. I revise existing pages occasionally without warning. The left menu is a mostly alphabetical list of pages on this site. Alternatively, there is a Site Map, meant for easy navigation. As most visitors probably know, the mother. Frank Hooses site. My very first machining project was a tailstock. This was a good. choice for a first project since it was very easy to build and yet is a. I added a Phase II AXA 1. QCTP. This toolpost looks huge on the minilathe. In addition, its easy to add a vise. The height is crudely adjustable using the tool height adjustment of. An advantage to this setup is that it takes only seconds to shift. The downside to the new toolpost and theres. I added the modified compound rest. LMS to help accommodate this and eventually modified the. This ball turning attachment to fit the. Lucite magnifiers. My carriage lock is based on Mike Walshs. This would make a useful second project although there is more filing. A taper attachment for the mini lathe it works. Here is a 3. C collet chuck to fit the 3. MT taper. in the minilathe headstock the raw material for the chuck was a barbell bar. Heres how it goes together. The gear is the. chuck extractor, the gadget is a wrench to apply more torque to the gear. The chuck is shown here in the lathe. The. collets are another part of this project this is a. To slot the collets I bought a slitting saw, then. A holder. is used to secure the collet for slitting this is a. Slitting is slow work. Unfortunately. this collet was not drilled accurately so it is useless due to excessive. Ball bearings were added to the mini lathe controls, beginning with the. These ball bearings transform the feel of the lathe and are WELL worth. The cross feed and compound dials were converted to. My original reason for getting a lathe was to make items related to my. I got into fiddling with lathe related stuff. I finally. got back to optics related things by making some. Bud Spencer Dublado. Coddington magnifiers from Lucite rod. A second. Lucite project was an optical center punch. Harlans siteDisappeared 31. A combination carriage stop dial holder. Engine. Mans design I copy only the best A clamp knurler was built from Martin Cleeves. His article suggests using the cross feed to knurl but this puts. A discarded Nordic Trac provided a 9 hand. Nothing is wasted here at Poverty Acres a roller. Nordic Trac was adapted to prevent the discharge chute on my. I made several MT2 tapers to hold commonly. When is a tool height gauge not a tool height gauge When its a. A center finder is one way to simplify use. I copied Varmint Als idea for a tailstock flag and. Used a piece of 12 lucite for the flag, the magnet is the rotor. VCR takeup motor with an aluminum bracket to mount the meter simple. The DRO has further. Made a plinth to replace the compound for most. This did not reduce chatter as I hoped. I dont use it much. Eventually I figured out that retracting the compound. I made doesnt allow. A Homier mill has been added to my shop. This doesnt fit nicely within the title of my site so I dont know exactly how. Ill work that out but after wrestling this 7. One necessary adjustment with a mill is. Some shop made. mill tooling the cutter holders are from a car. A Mini Tinker cutter grinder didnt work as I. I purchased a cutter grinder see. Tool holders to fit my Phase II toolpost were. Most tangential diamond toolholders. QCTP I adapted the Freeby design to fit my QCTP. I get a better. finish on steel with this toolholder than with regular toolholders and bits so. Ms Frontpage 2000. I now use this for most turning and facing. I made Will Hamlyns split nut mod to. This didnt work as well as I hoped so I. I use it. with 5 thou backlash. One of my interests is clocks I made a gear. I am. attempting at present. I added a page about my. I got into sharpening drills of various sizes. I wound up with three. Plus a. lever drill attachment to use all. A finger plate simplifies cross drilling of. The purchased Universal Cutter Grinder. Mini Tinker failed to solve, so. Eventually I built a. Brooks Stent cutter grinder this is more. I revised the depth stop on my. HF drill press idle hands do the devils work. This is much more useful than. Added DROs to the lathe using 6 scales. These are. more versatile and therefor more useful than I originally expected. In making the leadscrew for the Brooks Stent I needed a sharp threading bit. I built the sharpening jig from. Screwcutting in the Lathe by Martin Cleeve. This jig makes the job fast and. A little experimenting with this jig showed that it can be used to. The Broadley spindle directions call for a steady. I built one to fit either the 7x. Rockwell 1. 0 by swapping. Then I built the Linerator to add. Brooks dials lots of gadgetry is needed to complete the. Brooks grinder. I built a Geo. Thomas Retracting. Toolholder for Screwcutting to make threading easier and faster. I do a. fair amount of threading so Ive developed a routine for it which this tool. Added a mechanical carriage. Combined with the retracting toolholder. Built a graver rest for the minilathe a. Added a dog clutch type carriage auto stop to. I posted a video of the dog clutch in use on You. Tube. An ER 3. 2 collet chuck with pass through was. Fisheye Hemi Serial Mac. Built a sensitive drill. A gearless. clock has taken shape in my shop and looks like it will keep on ticking. As. a non woodworker, the case is an on going struggle although the temporary case. My 46 facet drill sharpener with. Made a tapping guide from a surplus indicator. Finished an ER 3. Rockwell. ER 3. 2 Collets can now be used on the 7x. Rockwell. 1. 0 and the mill drill. Small tools get magnetized accidentally magically in my shop so I made a. Small, cheap and it works well. Built a cut knurler as an experiment. Seems to work well, easier on the machine than the pressure knurler but seems a little fussier to set up. Added info on making counterbores from drill rod. Copied Dan Gelbarts Laser Center Finder concept for use with the mill or drill press. Helped a friend make a ball cutter that uses a tangential tool holder, i. Built a Tap Chuck mainly to see how the mechanism worked in practice seems to work well. This page was last modified by John Moran. HTML tweaker. If you have a comment on my site or its.