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Setting out an Angle on the Mill

March 7, 2022 by Nigel
marking out an angle on the mill

Setting out an angle on the mill table so that I can machine a set of gears at 9.5°. I know lots who will now be screaming at me to use a sine bar. It might be easiest to start with the simple right angle triangle. Below we see the triangle with the 9.5° angle, … Read more

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Burrell Cylinder Cavity

July 3, 2021July 3, 2021 by Nigel
Burrell cylinder cavity

Machining the miniature Burrell cylinder cavity was quite interesting. Mainly because the cylinder was flat on one side and so the machining was an incomplete circle. This meant I needed to use the rotary table. I use the Warco HV4 rotary table quite a lot. To the extent that it has developed some slight slack. … Read more

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Making Helical Gears

June 8, 2021 by Nigel
gear types

I’m looking at making helical gears, as per normal I wanted to start with the fundamentals. What is the optimum angle? Can I index them on the milling machine? Can I machine with a normal cutter? Why do I need to make helical gears? The big benefit is they will be quieter. Gear noise on … Read more

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Front Wheel Hubs

June 2, 2020 by Nigel
front wheel hub laying on box of matches

The front wheel hubs are quite small, 18mm in diameter, considering the features that are machined into them. This is my excuse then for having to machine 5 of these hubs before getting a pair that were correct. I don’t want wobbly wheels on my miniature Burrell traction engine. The front wheels rotate independently on … Read more

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Rotary Tables

April 19, 2020 by Nigel
Warco HV4 rotary table

Very soon after buying a milling machine I can guarantee you will be looking at rotary tables. A rotary table feels like a must have. Use it to machine: arcs flats on bolt heads and nuts rotate a part to be drilled at precise divisions or angles large circular parts that cannot be machined in … Read more

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Rear Wheel Hubs

February 29, 2020February 27, 2020 by Nigel
traction engine rear hub

The rear wheel hubs for the miniature traction engine that I’m making need to be indexed with eight spokes each side of a single wheel. The trick is that the spokes are out of “phase” and so the hub needs to have this out of phase feature. This post talks about how I went about aligning … Read more

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Rear Wheel Tread Pair

January 26, 2020 by Nigel
final pair of rear wheel rims

My first go at machining a rear wheel tread pair for my miniature traction engine was not that successful. That meant I needed another go. The rear wheel tread pair are handed and the tread grooves are 4mm wide and machined at 7 degrees with a depth of 0.75mm, 35 grooves in total. The rear … Read more

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Aligning a Rotary Table

December 3, 2019October 14, 2018 by Nigel
aligning a rotary table

Aligning a rotary table or more importantly aligning a part on the rotary table can be tricky and this is just a simple rough and ready approach to aligning a part. What I’m actually trying to achieve here is the alignment of a workpiece on the rotary table and the first task is to align … Read more

Categories Milling Machines, Work Holding Tags alignment, Milling Machine, rotary table 2 Comments

4-Jaw Chuck on Rotary Table

January 11, 2020February 11, 2018 by Nigel
rotary table and 4-jaw chuck

4-Jaw Chuck on Rotary Table or perhaps more accurately: “Mounting a 4-jaw Chuck to a Rotary Table in the Simplest Way”. The simplest way is the part for me. I’ve had a small 80mm 4-jaw chuck hanging around my workshop for some time with the intention of either mounting it to the Hobbymat Lathe or … Read more

Categories Homemade Tools Tags chuck, four jaw, Milling Machine, rotary table 2 Comments

Longer T-nuts – Warco HV4 4″ / 100mm Rotary Table

January 25, 2020September 10, 2017 by Nigel
long T-nuts for rotary table

I saw a set of long T-nuts being used in a jig boring machine and made me wonder if this idea could work for the HV4 rotary table. The long T-nuts with 8mm bolts fitted – I have now machined the upper thread on these down to 6mm so that I can use the Unimat … Read more

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