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DavidR8's shop shenanigans

I haven't had too much trouble, but I got in there early when the high low shift was acting up and found that the shaft that controls the shift fork didn't have a location hole drill in the right place so, I think it was, the low speed wasn't totally engaging. With the plastic gear that could have been an early failure. I made a new shaft to correct that. When I was in there I noticed that the light grease they were using had mostly been thrown off the gears. I found some grease from Petro-Can that had a high adhesive value and have been using that ever since. For anybody that is interested it is called G124 grease and it comes in cartridges. I use it on the change gears in the lathe also. In there it stays on the gears and doesn't get thrown onto the belt.
 
Larry_C9 said:
I haven't had too much trouble, but I got in there early when the high low shift was acting up and found that the shaft that controls the shift fork didn't have a location hole drill in the right place so, I think it was, the low speed wasn't totally engaging. With the plastic gear that could have been an early failure. I made a new shaft to correct that. When I was in there I noticed that the light grease they were using had mostly been thrown off the gears. I found some grease from Petro-Can that had a high adhesive value and have been using that ever since. For anybody that is interested it is called G124 grease and it comes in cartridges. I use it on the change gears in the lathe also. In there it stays on the gears and doesn't get thrown onto the belt.
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I’m very curious to see what the motor/belt arrangement looks like on my mill.
 
I have seen pictures of it and the geared belt setup looked good. Also somewhere there was a conversion to convert the gear head mill to the geared belt drive. I don't know where to find that now. It was quit a while ago.
 
Larry_C9 said:
I have seen pictures of it and the geared belt setup looked good. Also somewhere there was a conversion to convert the gear head mill to the geared belt drive. I don't know where to find that now. It was quit a while ago.
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Apparently it looks like this:
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Picked up my rewired motor and switch today. Best $80 I spent in a while.
And my TouchDRO adapter arrived today. Did a trial assembly and shocking no one more than myself it works with the Z scale I have. The other scale is due this week.
 
David_R8 said:
Just working from this: https://www.touchdro.com/store/diy-dro-glass-scale-adapter-v2.html#documentation
I bought the pre-built kit so all I have to do is figure out the pinout on my scales.
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I could not resist a peek at the unit's docs. I noticed that it also has an rpm input and a probe input. According the manual, the probe is a tool setter for CNC.

But I just got a tool setter to evaluate for Z-Axis edge finding w/o cnc. The way I'm thinking is to put the tool setter on the bottom of the vise jaws, touch off the probe and set zero (or an offset) on the DRO Z Axis. This makes the bottom of the part the Z-Axis zero edge. A table of offsets could be used to compensate for parallels. In a discussion on this with @thestelster, he also suggested I might be able to use the tool table function for the parallels.

I know that you are planning to go cnc, but those of us who are not planning to swim with sharks would appreciate any insights you might gain for us too.
 
Susquatch said:
I could not resist a peek at the unit's docs. I noticed that it also has an rpm input and a probe input. According the manual, the probe is a tool setter for CNC.

But I just got a tool setter to evaluate for Z-Axis edge finding w/o cnc. The way I'm thinking is to put the tool setter on the bottom of the vise jaws, touch off the probe and set zero (or an offset) on the DRO Z Axis. This makes the bottom of the part the Z-Axis zero edge. A table of offsets could be used to compensate for parallels. In a discussion on this with @thestelster, he also suggested I might be able to use the tool table function for the parallels.

I know that you are planning to go cnc, but those of us who are not planning to swim with sharks would appreciate any insights you might gain for us too.
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I have no intentions of going CNC on my mill. Not sure what might have given you that impression.
 
David_R8 said:
I have no intentions of going CNC on my mill. Not sure what might have given you that impression.
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I don't know, but I did. Glad to hear I dreamed it. You will be ok as long as you stay away from anything remotely resembling dark side cool aide.
 
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