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24th December 2021, 08:20 AM #1Most Valued Member
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How to scribe an index line on your cross slide
The old Hercus cross slides (or, as their parts manuals call it, the compound slide base plate?)
have a pair of zero marks – one on the front, and one on the back – to align with the nicely engraved protractor on the rotating compound casting.
If you use the compound at more than +30°, the front mark will be covered, and I never remember to use the back mark. Out of sight, out of mind?
What I needed was one facing the chuck.
1) Use a fine pen to mark the location beside 90° on the protractor:
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2) Remove compound slide assembly, and attach a tool, somewhere, to engrave over the mark.
A scriber (or Dremel) well clamped to the bed would do,
but I found an easier way - a boring bar in the chuck:
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3) Push the scribing tool into the casting with your left hand, and crank the carriage/saddle toward it a few times with your right:
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swinging the tool up between passes to be nice to the carbide (by turning the chuck a little).
4) Now there is a decent groove, carefully hand scrape a few times to finish it off:
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et voila:
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