Gday, the boring head is really taking shape now, I get the interceptor, adjustable stop and feed screw nut built, I hope you enjoy the video, Thanks for watching, Cheers email - mattysworkshop76@gmail.com
That is bloody brilliant - you must be well happy with that. Perfect fit and operation. That kind of result on a complex assembly only comes as a result of a lot of thought, care and attention. Very cool. Also - I never thought to attach a dial indicator to a boring head like that - so that's another tip in the toolbox. Cheers and best wishes!
Gday, there’s been a few sleepless nights during this build that’s for sure, mounting the indicator like this works really well, some people say you get a cosine error but I’ve never had a problem with all the bores I’ve done so far, appreciate you watching mate, cheers
That is quite a technical build Matty, very nice work indeed. I have one of those Vertex edge finders, and I've just about had enough of it, so I ordered a little electronic version off Aliexpress today, reasonably cheap at under A$15 delivered, I'm hoping it makes life a bit easier. 👍
G'day Matty, I've stopped this at the point you were talking about your vertex edge finder. I have the exact same tool and it's never bloody repeated properly ever. Ive ended up doing it ten, twelve times sometimes to try to average out where an edge is. So much so that I've bought one of the beeping, at touching the part, it's just a simple continuity circuit, only about £10 not one of the £100 ruby stylus ones I add lol. But it's fully ground and I've measured it with a mic and it's accurately parallel and I'm confidant it should work. Not tried it out yet but it must be more consistent than the Vertex edge finder. I'll watch rest of the build now lol. Watched it all now! Matty you're a true craftsman mate, that thing looks bloody awesome! Don't worry about a couple of little balls ups, as the old boys used to say if you're not making mistakes you're either making nothing or you're learning! Looking forward to seeing the boring facing head run next week. I think I'm not going to try to make one as I was going to scale it down to 50 or 60 mm in dia, but looking at what you did this week, I think some parts would be very , very fiddly to make. And a full size one is just too big for my little milling head
Gday Sam, it’s been getting worse over the past few months, certainly can’t trust it now, I do have an electronic one but it’s quite long, thanks for watching mate, cheers
Gday, if all goes to plan then I should have it completed next week ready for its first spin in the spindle, fingers crossed anyway, appreciate you watching mate
The machining is the easiest part, how to fixture and determine the order of operations is the hard part. Very nice work Matty. Thanks very much for sharing my friend. All the best to you and yours.
Matty that there boring head is coming together very nicely i like the way you go about making the various parts required looking at each then working out your plain of attack to get it done what you have so far seems to work really well and looks smooth as Cheers Mate 👍
G'day Matty busy week for you mate you got a fair bit done good to see I'm interested to see how it works it looks like it has few more features than the one I paid a packet for from H&F . Yeah those DRO's are magic I'd be lost without mine now. Another top video cheers mate.
Happy days and g'day Matty, another belter mate, well done over coming the hiccups, it's reassuring to see it happens to all of us, thanks for sharing buddy and best wishes to you and yours
I don’t know why I want a lathe and mill, I would get so mad at myself and start throwing parts into the neighbors yard. I don’t even like some of my neighbors.
G'day Mate, that's a great milling machine. I should've got something like that and not the junk I actually bought. What model is your mill, Matty? BTW, nice sharp bits as well.
G'day Matty, I'm curious as to why you do lots of passes with a small end mill rather than less passes with a larger end mill? Is it simply because changing end mills takes so long?
