marka12161
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2016
- Location
- Oswego, NY USA
I'm just getting around to getting the high speed universal vertical head cleaned up and fitted to the kempsmith universal horizontal mill and i need to make an adapter plate to drive the thing. The design couldn't be simpler. A 5 inch OD, 1 1/8 inch ID x approx 1 1/12 inch thick donut with a slot milled across the diameter to accept the drive dogs, four counter-bored bolt holes to mate up with the NMTB 50 taper spindle face and two 1/4 inch keyways broached into the ID to drive the shaft.
I have an old rusted disc of mystery metal (wheel weights from my Dad's garden tractor) that i could make this out of but it's very soft. Although the design is simple, there's a couple hours of work involved (i work at a glacial pace) and I learned from woodworking a long time ago, unless practicing, make stuff out of the best material you can afford. So, what's the right material to make this part from? I was thinking of just getting a slug of Durabar and going from there.
What say the cognescenti?
I have an old rusted disc of mystery metal (wheel weights from my Dad's garden tractor) that i could make this out of but it's very soft. Although the design is simple, there's a couple hours of work involved (i work at a glacial pace) and I learned from woodworking a long time ago, unless practicing, make stuff out of the best material you can afford. So, what's the right material to make this part from? I was thinking of just getting a slug of Durabar and going from there.
What say the cognescenti?