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  1. RobinHood

    Time for some fun

    - using carbon paper to make duplicate copies - Gestetner Cyclograph machine for duplicating - cap guns and home made bows & arrows to play Cowboys and Indians - original pezz dispensers - going to the cigarette dispensing machine with $1 to buy an 80 cent pack for my dad (got to keep the 20...
  2. RobinHood

    Calgary & area meet up Spring 2024.

    Thanks all for contributing to a great event. Too many to list - so I won’t bother as I am sure I’ll forget someone. Unfortunately I did not get to show the dividing head as I (we all) got severely sidetracked… If there is demand, I can leave it set-up for a bit and demonstrate it on an...
  3. RobinHood

    Tool Cathetometer - sounds like a medical device!

    Thanks for educating me on the proper name and function of “that thing in the corner” behind my late @Chipper5783. Much appreciate your pictures. Now I just have to find the missing parts for my Catheotometer…
  4. RobinHood

    draw bolt rod

    Glad to be of help. For the ones that are concerned about alignment of a weldment: one can always turn a ”pin” on one part and a close fitting socket on the other. Chamfer each well (weld prep), stick them together and weld around the circumference. Turn down the excess weld and you should have...
  5. RobinHood

    draw bolt rod

    How about a grade 8 bolt (or similar strength) welded onto any type of steel rod? As has been mentioned, it is the threads that take the most abrasion and thus lose form fastest. If they wear out, cut off the bolt and weld a new one on. You’d be back in business right away.
  6. RobinHood

    Machines at Henry Ford Museum

    Places like that are beyond cool. Thanks for sharing.
  7. RobinHood

    ER40 collet chuck

    Hopefully I understand you correctly… you are saying that if you were to take off the nut (red arrow) , you can not just slide the combo gear off the shaft and turn it around? Have you tried it? That gear has a 6203-2RS bearing in it. The axle runs through the inner race. The bearing / gear...
  8. RobinHood

    ER40 collet chuck

    @Brian H : do you mind doing a little experiment? 1) can you take the 91T/86T combo gear and turn it around 180* on it’s shaft so that the 91T portion is closest to the headstock (opposite to the way you have it in your picture in post #13 above) 2) mesh the 45T ”F” input gear with the 91T...
  9. RobinHood

    ER40 collet chuck

    I believe those compound gears are used for feed reverse. Looking at the main gear table in the manual, both are 45T/40T (40T/45T) combos meshing with a 45T on the spindle. I would think that it is physically impossible to install them “backwards” because of their size difference.
  10. RobinHood

    ER40 collet chuck

    Is this how you measured the 1” carriage travel when you did your “pitch validation” as you posted in #68 above? I can see your method to be a bit problematic: a) typically, one does not use a 1” capacity DI to measure a one inch distance; you should use a 1.5” or 2” capacity one b) the...
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