Cutting an Angle with the compound

hey guys welcome back to the shop now I'm on the decks the on the index and angle plate this week I've been off of it for a while and you know I've just got caught up in other projects and it really need to get this thing finished and for those of you who are not familiar with what this is you could go back and look at a lot of other videos where I built this thing up into this point yeah on video but all it is is the 90-degree workholding twice just 90 degrees this is your work face but this one has an extra function and that you can rotate it 360 degrees accurately and index it within a quarter of a degree you know what I'm working on today is the vernier scale or the pointer that goes on the back here and that you line your marks up with now this is just a prototype I've built it out of PVC and just to you know go through the motions go through my operations make sure I can do it properly and not mess it up which I'm good at sometimes but the final one I want to make out of bronze already subscribe my lines on and I'm pretty happy with it so I want to machine it into its final shape and I'm gonna use the shaper for that but first I'm gonna bring in get you a little better look at this show you my setup and then we're gonna cut this guy all right here's the prototype and like I said this one's just PVC and we scribed our lines on it we scribed it in the milling machine we just set the rotary table up on the milling machine we used a board bar with a special little bit that we ground and we scribed our lines it worked out pretty well and I'm actually pretty happy with it so I tried it on a piece of bronze and I was pretty successful and it's not perfect but it's pretty close close enough for me and I want to machine it into its final shape this is basically the shape that I want to machine it into as you can see it's just bandsaw cut we've got some lines scribed on it some way out and lines and we're just gonna replicate this shape as best we can it doesn't have to be but we want to be close and we're going to do it with a shaper and hopefully it'll turn out right and look good I really like the way that it the bronze stands out against the steel here with our index lines and I did all these index lines on this shaker on video with the rubbery table infused if you're interested it's a pretty popular video you can go back and watch that took quite a while to scrub all these lines on here but I really actually enjoyed doing it and I'm glad that I did so let's get this thing in the vise and see if we can cut a 15 degree angle all right now this heads tilted quite a bit usually this head is completely vertical and you know this machine is very capable of operating like this it didn't fact it's definitely designed to do it and has index lines on the side of the casting here which I'll bring you around and show you in just a second and what I did first is align those lines up because they are extremely accurate and to be honest just lining those lines up would be perfectly fine and for what I'm doing but I want to give it a little more accurate than that just because I want to to practice getting things you know as close as I can within reason to to my desired target which is 15 degrees I've got a precision angle 15 degree here and I've set it on the vise jaw which is parallel with the movement of the box left and right and I got an indicator with a mag base and I just attached it to the side of the compound and I'll bring in and I'll show you the indicator let's draw around here and set it on the angle I'm going to bring you around here we'll zero this indicator will run along this angle and we'll tap this head in to where we get zero on their indicator from one end to the other and then I'll be fairly happy that we're 15 degrees you can see I just got the indicator attached to the compound and we got our little precision angles sitting on the fixed jaw of ice and I'm gonna bring it down to zero it all we've done is line up the lines as close as we can get them we're gonna move this down this 15 degree angle see what we get so we've got a thousandth of an inch we're coming down a little steep so we need to just tap this guy up just a little bit of thing just use no led mount we may have went too much this is a tense indicator so any movement is really mana okay that's three tents it doesn't mean today this accurate but it's fun just to practice just for you know where the jobs that really may need to be this accurate Nana yen yeah three tents so we went a little much let's tighten it and see what that looks like now when we tighten it it may change a little so we're putting a rotational force on this whole head and just by tightening these bolts it doesn't need to be extremely tight but we don't want moving really we need the right tool for the job here on this adjustable wrench is not they're up to type zero and check it in do you think I think that's pretty good you ask me that's over about two and a half inches good enough okay we're gonna call that good now let's get our part set up in here and what we're gonna do it's clamp it out on the edge because we're going to have to run off the edge of this vise so we're just gonna set this part out in here now I don't really recommend anyone clamp anything that they're gonna machine hard on the edge of a vise because it's a you know you want to if at all possible put your work in the middle of the vise that way it doesn't you know camp the job but we're just going to be nibbling away at this guy so I think this will be more than sufficient piece of PVC in here to span our gap because of our parallels at we reason the wax is wider than her part so because in some situations where you need three hands I'm talking I work down now let's get the shape or code set up and cut this guy all right yes there's not going to be anything fast about this we're just gonna be happy the holding first part and will be coming off the edge of the bikes here as you can see this thing is tilted you know almost to its extent almost 90 degrees from vertical and the clapper I had the tilt all the way you know to one side in order for the clapper box to close properly and I've got a heavy weighted tool holder here to help it come back into return position which it should operate on but you know there comes a point when you're rotating this hint that the clapper doesn't function properly just due to the design but a shaper is pretty versatile and several people try to talk me out of buying you know a shaper why don't you get something and I'd they'll regret buying this machine at all especially with the universal table this machine will do just about anything milling machine it's just slow so I'm gonna get this thing cut and I show you a little bit up front and then I'll bring you back when we're cutting more of the surface because it's pretty irregular and there's no reason for you to sit there and watch me cut air so we're just gonna run this guy three inch stroke around those two'll here probably truthfully I can't but the box is working just fine let's get things finished bring me back all right I pulled it out of the Vice there and just knock the bird off slightly now in this piece we got a little cavity here something I have to do something creative back here but there's still some machine and left to do and it'll be basically no machined off to there so I'm gonna have to do some of the back of this I don't know why I didn't mean pick the why I picked the bad part of the material to use but there we go yeah looks pretty good I think so far and go back here and the contrast is really good between the bronze and steel it's really well so I'm pretty happy with that I've been really busy this week and last week I really haven't had much time to spend out here the one thing that I did do is I have some of these farm strong tool holders this is a number t5 s and this is a t5 s also and there's zero Degree rake built-in so that our carbide holders and you don't find them too often and just so happens these are a little too big to fit my tool post in my shaker and they hold five-eighths blanks now I have a whole lot of 5/8 tool steel I don't have much half-inch tool steel which is what this one holds this holds 5/8 or half-inch blanks so last week machine this down and these are made out of some pretty good steel some pretty high quality stuff and having a machine this one there's not a whole lot of difference in the two but you know about two hundred two hundred thousandths or so too big to fit in my tool post so machined a day and I machine both top and bottom to make it look as factory as possible I don't want to grind off more on one end than the other I didn't grind anything I'm machining this on the shaper and so I'm pretty happy with that and I need to get me some half-inch tool steel now I can use these in the shaper or at least this one for about 5/8 too and I don't like to use these any more than I have to they're great in a situation like this where you need the extra length you know and also to you know maintain you know a rigid setup because these are you know they're designed for this purpose so they're really rigid so I'm glad I've done that that was a little thing it's Christmas time around here and it's just been a busy time I mean nothing most people can relate to that and there hasn't been a lot of time for filming I'm really glad you guys are watching I really appreciate it although subscribers and all my new ones we're gonna fit this guy up soon I still got a little machine in to do but you get the idea I just got to knock off the top here and then we're gonna have to find out a way to you know attach this to that to the angle plate should be pretty interesting I really appreciate you watching if you haven't make sure to subscribe to the channel by clicking on my little guy up here and hit the bell for notifications and as always I'll see you next time

Channel: Steve Summers

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Id: E-DVNE3JjZk

Length: 19min 16sec (1156 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 23 2017