Thread: sacrificial plate on cross slide

Bill,

I have a Myford milling attachment. I just made a nut up to fit the compound slide thereby retaining the ability to use the compound feed, a feature absent when a Hercus vertical milling attachment or similar is used. https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...08#post1263208



Bob.

Thanks Bob,

Thats great

I assumed it would be unstable and wobbly sitting all the way up there on the compound, and I'd need to have it sitting down low on the cross slide.

I'll give that a go.

Back to sacrificial plate for a moment, instead of an expensive investment in a slotted cross slide, do people ever, somehow, mount a plate on the cross slide for mounting miscellaneous jobs ?

Bill

Originally Posted by steamingbill

.............Back to sacrificial plate for a moment, instead of an expensive investment in a slotted cross slide, do people ever, somehow, mount a plate on the cross slide for mounting miscellaneous jobs ?

Bill

Bill,

The plate makes good sense. You could use it to mount angle plates, vee blocks etc. Something to prevent your screwed on dovetail spigot from unscrewing would be handy and you could use your tailstock for rear support if you were doing some heavy turning or milling.

Bob.

You may be able to get away with something like this.

The 1st three are just of a steel Tee slotted cross slide.

There would be no reason why the small tee slotted plate at the rear of the compound could not be extended over the full length of the compound if you wanted to have a sacrificial work area that you could bolt to.

Thanks Pipeclay,

Between this and the faceplate thats my homework for the weekend.

Bill

[QUOTE=pipeclay;1860414]You may be able to get away with something like this.

The 1st three are just of a steel Tee slotted cross slide.

There would be no reason why the small tee slotted plate at the rear of the compound could not be extended over the full length of the compound if you wanted to have a sacrificial work area that you could bolt to.[/QUOTE
Hi Pipeclay. I believe I've read somewhere on this forum that you manufactured steel T slotted cross slides for sale.If so do you have any left ?

Clive

I have made 1 as per the photo just for the sake of seeing how it went.

I have put it on my lathe to check fit and to me it seemed fine.

There was one error when I drilled the holes for the compound the 1st was at the wrong angle,so this one has 3 holes rather than 2.

If wanted I could make another,couldnt give a definite final cost, but would think upto $250, could be less haven't priced material for a long time.

There wouldn't be any degree markings on it ,but I could try to put some type of reference.

If you only required a plate that you could mount something too,then that can be done but it would require some milling work by the end user to fit it to there existing cross slide.