![]() I'm already finding the cross-slide travel limiting when using the Hercus milling attachment. Without it I would still have a casting sitting in my cabinet. I can't wait to turn something on it.Īnd most importantly I'd like to thank Pete (Pipeclay) for giving me his time, machines and most importantly sharing his knowledge with me. ![]() I've just posted a group of photo's without tags, the finished product by itself and on my Hercus. I can't remember how much I paid for everything, but it was worth it. Pete, feel free to add your insight or forgotten details. That's pretty much it, it was a long process (mainly due to my family and work commitments) and I've probably forgotten a lot. Bugger! Its about 5mm short but there's approximately 8 gib screws along the cross slide length, so its well covered. I decided to bend-over the excess at the dial end (like on my Hercus), unfortunately I did it cold and snapped it instead of bending it. Those with eagle eyes will also see the gib is a bit short, my mistake. We may have to thin out the gib a bit more. ![]() Some may say loosen the gib screws, well they're only finger tight at the moment. I had this problem on the original cross slide - I'm using a imperial nut with a metre lead screw or the other way around ( can't remember) as my current leadscrew is really worn in the middle, another little problem which I will fix one day - however I think the new cross slide has exacerbated the problem. I've put the cross slide on my Hercus (unpainted - will one day fix that), the cross slide lead screw is way too tight. I would of posted this earlier but it took them about 3 or 4 weeks to do ( it is a working machine shop and cost me nothing, so I'm not complaining). The used a 5 axis milling machine, the numbers and dashes have come out well but a little difficult to read. ![]() Over a period of weeks, we (mainly Pete) used his HM52 mill to rough out the casting, cut the tee slots, cut the dove tail, bore out the centre bore, drill and tap the locking bolts, bore the cross feed lead screw nut postion and everything else I've forgotten.Īfter everything was machined to size, I had to take the cross slide to a machine shop to have the compound degrees machined on it. I asked Pipeclay if he could lend a hand. I didn't have a milling machine (and still don't) I thought I use one of my works machines - no go ( a long story). Last year I bought from MLA castings in the US a Southbend extended cross slide casting, a taper turning casting, and a milling base casting. I could off put this in the Hercus area but as lots of machining was involved and the casting can be modified for any Southbend clone I thought it would fit in here nicely. ![]()
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