Making a Lathe Ways Dial Indicator Holder

[Music] hi I'm Everett welcome back to the shop what I've needed to do for a while is make it holder for a dial indicator that attaches to the ways of the lathe up until now what I've been doing is trying to set up a dial indicator on a magnetic base and it's been really fiddly and sometimes a pain because it'll just fall out of place to do that I've got oh my son's awake I'll have to make this quick to do that I've got a small block of aluminum it's been squared up it's a little oversized for what I need so I'm going to have to take and I probably use the sledding saw cut the excess material off and then for roughing and then cut it down to size for fine cutting 2-inch dial indicator I'll be mounting that to the front and yeah I'm gonna have to go deal with him first and then once I'm done dealing with him then we'll get set up on the mill and go from there so we have to do is cut it close to the two inch mark which I've already scratched on there I I could probably have done this with an a face mill and just clean the front off and just taking that off but three quarters of an inch is actually a lot of material so I figured this may actually be better in the long run preferred it I would have preferred to take a shallower scratch on the first pass however unfortunately it's this is as shallow as we're gonna get you that's number two [Music] for the last pass we're just going to flip the block around not bad for a ruff for roughing pass not completely square as as far as a cut but it doesn't need to be either sides would have been ashamed to turn that all on the chips it's still a usable piece of material three-inch faced mill is installed let's take a touch off and then roughing past see we're at yeah we're touched down about 15 thousands were from where it was [Music] take care 20th hours so [Music] two inch 45 2 inch 44 you know I think I'm just gonna take a 45 thought this is a length measurement which is less critical than some of the others one point nine nine seven path birth and three thousand that that was not a critical measurement by any stretch okay have blocks flipped onto the one edge now we're cut to length within a few thousandths of two inches length ways we now need to cut seventy thousand softest face the block is one point seven by one point seven by now two inches and so we need to bring this side down to one inch 630 so needs seventy thousands taken off you you under 65 we need other 25,000 Soph at 6:29 good enough our next step is to lay out the pattern on this end where we need to cut and while I will be using you know cutting and measuring and cutting and measuring I'm gonna lay out the pattern on this end of the material using a little bit of blue a little bit of Dyke am trying not to get it everywhere as we say it's kind of like watching paint dry only DICOM slightly faster so now we need a 45 degree angle from that corner you there we are so there's the that's the pattern we need to cut to okay face Mills swapped out for a two flute 3/4 n mill we spinning here about 1,400 rpm give or take yeah we're just gonna have to take a number of successive passes let's do a you you 7:40 so what we're looking for within a cell about 750 right so using a hacksaw I was able to take that tab off the edge here and so now we're just going to using a half inch end mill we have 1/2 inch end mill we're just just going to take off that that new tab because I don't have a Vblock that's the right size to actually hold this without interfering with the jaws I have to mount it up using my vernier protractor I'm just gonna have to take light cuts and be very careful when I get into this little corner here when I get to that corner and get out to that line then the v-groove is done you're going to start there lock off our x-axis where we'll cut in Hawaii 50 South depth of cut you yeah we're right in that corner let's take a climb will or climb pass on this back face pick the five telepaths isn't just about to the line here we go there's our v-groove I like how this sits in there the V is a nice shape on top the vertical feature there if it's snuggly rate against the side of the lip weighs themselves the blooming here has taking a bit of the worse for the wear but I still have to draw on the bottom face here and then the little step that's needed for the tensioning what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to the other bench I'll read blue it I'll mark it up and then set it up on the milling machine and then we'll go from there and cutting that bottom feature so I've marked out now where I have to cut in order to bring the material down to height and also leave the little that's going to be a little bit of a ridge along this back edge here that's to provide a pivot point or a fulcrum for when I snuck down on the bolts that hold that little plate on the bottom so what I need to do first off is take this down to the height of the top of that step then I'll move the piece of material my way a bit and then I'll cut the step after because that's about a 50th out drop [Music] so this the top of the shoulder has to be one point four four inches tall from the top of the material one inch 555 150 and thousands 50 so one inch 505 so yeah at 65,000 yeah 104 40 and a half I'll take it so if I bring it down the 50,000th it's necessary there that's the 50000 sis necessary and then we're going to use the nicotine ometer here it's just cutting the paper yeah here we go so just cutting the paper so I'll set the zero so what I've done is I've set the zero on the on the y-axis again digital readout be nice but not happening anytime soon so now I can take and to get the edge this edge to line up with the back edge here this edge this tooth I need to come my way 750 thousands of an inch and then we can come back another hundred thousandths that makes 850 all right we're gonna set up and find that that find that edge first that is the edge here well that's a hundred thousands from the edge so after using the edge finder we've moved over the hundred thousandth of an inch to take an account for the edge finder thickness and then looking at that and that's right on the edge so now if we go one two three four five we have our spot to drill right there we're in a spot drill first then we're gonna drill using the number seven drill bit and after I get my phone maybe I just got a few of these spiral flute drill or taps in her give them a try you that it's pretty much what the doctor ordered because there's going to be a plate right here this this is going to clamp against next tool unlock the x-axis you we can actually remove this from the Vice as it sits because these features are not done so for drilling and tapping two holes this will be plenty rigid enough and plenty accurate enough because these holes are not again these holes are just meant for putting a couple bolt or a bolt through four depending on how you're going to mount the dial indicator [Music] all right that's zero there's zero you yeah so there you have I got the main clamping block finished yeah even managed to hide my little boo-boo for the most part now I just need to make the little plate that goes on the bottom of this with the two holes and a little sleeve that is the spacer her for the spacer for the dial indicator back I did pick up some quarter-inch thick aluminum flat bar when I was at metal supermarkets last so there's been a bit of time between the beginning of this project and now so I'd had a chance to make it into metal Superamerica it's I'm just going to clean up the corners or clean up the edges and make it reasonably square drill two holes in it and then we'll get on to making that little sleeve have one factory edge so I'm gonna use that one factory edge to start with you yeah that's well yeah one-inch 9.99 great I'm just using the edge of that parallel as a square because it fits in there so a pair you to drill the two holes in it basically just need to drill two holes half an inch in from the edge and an inch apart and half an inch yeah half an inch from the one edge half an inch from the side edges inch apart really this would be one of the simpler things to do on this whole project I mean even then the whole project wasn't that complex around colum Miller I'm just gonna deeper the holes by hand yeah there we go now I was digging through my scrap bin and my sword has been in section I found that and wouldn't you know it it's a half inch outside diameter and about twenty-two hundred sixty thousand side which is pretty much spot-on what I need so he's kind of short chunk off of it and we're going to face both ends to length and then we can try this thing out [Music] it'll work it worked so I take this is a another one of those tools I'm making that would have been nice to actually have the tool to make the tool because I measure now and I'm one inch ninety four thousand slog this is part of the reason for that tools so that I can actually face I have to face or make a feature on the end [Music] you [Music] 1 inch 3 close enough I am happy with 1 inch 3 so tape there bring tool so I've got it roughly assembled here with the bolts on fairly loose what I've done is I've actually put flat washers right against the block and then lock washers underneath the heads in between that way the lock washers actually provide a little bit of a spring action against the flat washers and that allows for not having to tighten it all the way down if I don't have to tighten it all the way down then should I forget if it's not clamp right down it should actually push the block to the side as opposed to well damaging the indicator I mean it's I know it's not a super high quality one but I certainly don't want to wreck it there we go see I have a little bit of a little bit of travel to it here a little bit of slide to it that can always adjust as necessary one of the reasons I wanted to do it this way is that I can just this way slide it back out of the way and not have to worry a I don't have to take it off and on I can actually leave it attached to the lathe I am very happy with that that's cool I now have 2 inches worth of precision travel measurement and slides back out of the way I've been wanting one of those for a while just because it makes it a lot easier to make precision features on the end of a piece of material whether you're facing it or cutting you know trepanning into that sort of thing what I wanted to say as well is I know it's been a few weeks since I've posted thank you to all who stuck around the next one won't be near as long after you know this one is this one was from the last one I just needed to get caught up with a few things in life and we between myself my well my wife and my little guy and then myself we're dealing with colds and busyness and work and whatever this last couple weeks has been a little bit hairier the last few weeks so anyway thank you for all for hanging on and sticking with any of the projects I do here yeah I'm just drawing them up to fit my machinery I know these machines are sold the world over in various different names various different companies and stores around the world in England Australia down the states you know and the other areas have actually seen what was really cool is watching some of the Russian hobby machining channels and some of their equipment is you know some of the equipment the cobby's guys they're using as Chinese equipment as well a lot of the geometry and ways and different things are the same from one brand to another so I happen to have a king casey 1236 12 inch by 36 lathe 12 whatever that is in millimeters third well 300 by what thousand I guess it would be somewhere in that neighborhood anyway for what it's worth any of the plans that I draw up for you know for my tooling and different things I'm making from my lathe and my mill any of this stuff if you have a lathe like mine a machine like mine and you want something that's already drawn up you just have to grab a block and go make something anything I have if you send me an email Everett's workshop at gmail.com send me an email I will send you the PDFs of the stuff I make anybody can have a copy I don't really care people have shared with me the guys on YouTube here in the community I've learned really cool trips and tips and tricks and ideas from them I just want to be able to contribute them something back to the mix the only thing I ask if you use it something that I've drawn up that it doesn't become a commercial venture if it was you know I've gotten information from people freely passed this on freely give it to others so I guess all I have all I have to say is thank you all to her who've stuck with me and thanks for watching [Music]

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Keywords: everett's workshop, hobby machining, lack of dro, dial indicator mount, carriage dial indicator, metal lathe, king kc1236, import lathe, machining a v-groove, round column mill drill, homemade tool

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Length: 30min 59sec (1859 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 14 2018