gernoff
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- Joined
- Mar 19, 2011
- Location
- Great Falls, Montana
I have always intended to Moglice my carriage in place but thought I'd get away without having to machine to carriage for clearance bases on the amount of wear my machines ways were showing. Well, bought a parts lathe and it's ways are in near pristine condition! Am surprised to find that none of the wear evident in the old machine is in the carriage itself. Put the carriage on the new ways and a preliminary measure to the feed screw show that it's within 10-20 thousandths of where it needs to be.......
Long winded story short: I will need to machine clearance into the saddle for the Moglice. Anyone know of an angled cutter that could be used for machining the prismatic way with the carriage laying flat on the mill vs. fixturing it at an angle and all the associated setup hassles. If I cannot find an angled cutter (chamfer tool maybe?) I'll probably knock together a single point tool with a carbide insert.
Well, off to Google up available cutters. I will post pictures as I progress.
Erik
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Long winded story short: I will need to machine clearance into the saddle for the Moglice. Anyone know of an angled cutter that could be used for machining the prismatic way with the carriage laying flat on the mill vs. fixturing it at an angle and all the associated setup hassles. If I cannot find an angled cutter (chamfer tool maybe?) I'll probably knock together a single point tool with a carbide insert.
Well, off to Google up available cutters. I will post pictures as I progress.
Erik
Sent via cell phone.