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27th June 2021, 03:12 AM #1Most Valued Member
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Cheap depth stop for your chuck/spindle
I was machining some spacers, and wanted an easy way to position them the same depth in the chuck jaws (for machining the parted-off side to length).
Looked at a few over-complicated in-spindle stops, decided that I didn't have time to make one that clamps/locks inside the spindle. So, looked around at my scrap for something to cobble together.
Amusingly, an old tap spindle is a close fit for the Hercus spindle:
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Mount that in the chuck, ready for machining to spindle bore:
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(as soon as I get those stringy spirals of swarf out of the QCTP).
It turns out that this spindle nut, er, spigot nut, doesn't have a single parallel axis in it. So, I re-grab in the threaded part (that I will be machining down), to machine the opposite side:
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then I grab that now co-axial side, and machine the thread away to fit the spindle end:
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tap it out to M12 coarse:
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and put it on some threaded bar (that I occasionally use to bolt items onto/into the chuck):
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I just shoved the bar+brass end down into the spindle, twisted the rod for the correct depth, and pushed the work piece against the other end of the threaded rod:
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Turning the lathe on will unwind the threaded rod, so I just pull the whole thing out before machining anything.
As long as I didn't twist the rod too much, depth setting seems accurate to about 5 thou, but a few lock nuts help with that:
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The long hex thing (a joiner) is just small enough to fit down the spindle. A standard M12 nut is not.
I also used a few of them to make the stop end larger than the bare M12 rod:
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For this particular job, a chuck spider would have done the job, or external jaws in a small chuck. I also thought about using an old MT3 arbor:
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and machining a thread or sliding stop into it (like this):
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but I suspect the arbor is hard steel, and will be difficult to drill (and/or tap)
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