This is really a safety guard. While it’s intended for coolant and chips, if anything heavier hits it, it could shatter, as acrylic is brittle. For this purpose, polycarbonate is preferred.
Get yourself some novus 1&2 plastic polish paste and cleaner and you can keep it clear for awhile .my neighbor gave it to me they use it on plastic motorcycle windshields. it works great I use it on my expensive welding helmet shields and chip shields and it clears them right up 👍👍👍
Well done Lee! This is exactly my next project! Those little 🔥 🔥 🔥 chips are dangerous! I am gonna build up a A3 (420x297mm) size Perspex. But I wanna use a magnetic base as I have one laying around. Greg
I`m sure you could rig up a small wall mart adapter to run the tailstock digital readout, they are real cheap and you could do it for less than the cost of a couple of batteries, that way you always have power, I did something similar on the readout on the mill, always forgot to turn it off.
Watching you use the key in the drill chuck reminds me of a great frustration around the shop. I have an entire drawer full of chuck keys. Similar is my search to that for the holy grail when I attempt to get a key for my various chucks that has no slop in it. All of mine whether they are chinese, German, Austrian, or US made fit with a large amount of slop. This includes the ones that came with the chucks. It drives me nuts when I am using them one handed that they always cam out of the teeth not to mention that that action on the gear surface leads to premature wear only exacerbating the problem. Keyless chucks are nice and I have a few but on tools where larger drill bits and hole saws are used they self tighten to the point they become a tool requiring chuck! Do you have this problem and have you found a solution if so? I bought a third axis for my DRO on the lathe (future project to install) so I would not have to deal with batteries. Could you adapt a vernier style or better a dial caliper? I do like the digital for converting back and forth between metric and imperial. Nice project. A modification I have done to my air hoses by the machines is to install in line valves so I can regulate the air pressure right at the point of use. Keeps from blowing chips all over the shop!! I use the little ball valves with a round dial used to open and close. No weight no bulk. Take care.
I hit on the same solution while buying batteries for my cheap harbor freight digital, but as often as I use the thing I take the battery out before I put it away. This is a lot of why the better caliper that I've ordered is entirely mechanical, with a dial, rather than digital. :-)
If something is 12 inches long, you can tell us that..............you don't have to convince us that you believe it is 12 iiiincches looong. You can do something with out telling us that yo gonna go ahaid and do it. Stavros
