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  1. Rauce

    Metal Coating Assistance

    I have a friend who does mould work and pattern making for casting , injection molding and similar applications. I know that he gets 7075 parts electroless nickel plated for some applications. The coating thickness is very uniform, much better than hard anodizing and the coated surface is...
  2. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    I think I made a couple of assumptions that maybe I shouldn’t have? 1. That as long as the carriage was solid on the ways (not rocking or twisting) it wouldn’t matter if it was scraped in to full contact yet as it would still follow the ways as straight as the ways are for the purpose of...
  3. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    I did check the tailstock, its the same issue with the fit, the regrind did change the the geometry slightly. Fortunately because the headstock was taken from another machine by Peter to make this one whole, it was actually a few thou lower than the tailstock to begin with. I figured I could do...
  4. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    Ok, hockey pucks it is!
  5. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    I got the lathe moved into my shop on Thursday night. Was about as difficult as I expected. Not terrible but it took about an hour. The doorway was a close fit. I modified the existing motor mount adapter to work with the 143 frame clearpath servo. I also ran the servo controlled by the...
  6. Rauce

    Steady rest

    They fit annd assemble the machines there. Not sure where the castings come from but they could very well be local, there are still a number of large foundries in southern ontario.
  7. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    Strangely it seems to move a tenth or two in the direction I’m trying to get it to go just sitting overnight in between sessions working on it. Measuring to tenths is tricky business. I think it’s as good as it’s going to get. Somewhere in the middle the of the 0-4 I’m looking for. In other...
  8. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    I’ve been scraping away and getting pretty close now. After getting it to sit tight in the angled ways it was out a thou in both directions across 12”. I’ve done a few passes now to remove those errors and I’m at 2 tenths low and 7 tenths toward the front/apron side at the far end. Ideally...
  9. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    Plan is taking shape. I cleaned off the surface plate and heaved the headstock up there on some 2-4-6 blocks. I’m going to take a bunch of height measurements wherever I can before I begin scraping so I know how much I’m taking off. I’m going to sit down and do some trig in a bit to figure out...
  10. Rauce

    Hendey T&G Lathe

    @Mcgyver gets to say he told me so now :rolleyes: I did the blue check with the headstock just now. The bluing alone tells me I have good contact on the flat surface. I also got out an indicator to check for rocking/soft foot since it’s 4 points essentially. I was able to measure 1-2 tenths of...
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