making the indexing plunger and drilling the holes in the ring If you don't have a dividing head to drill the holes see my video • Indexing ring and feed...
Gday Alan, this turned out really nice, I like the dividing head set you have, that was a good series of videos when you made it, it seems to be quite accurate on a full rotation which is brilliant, please stay safe and thanks for sharing, Cheers Matty
I have stumbled on your site where you are using a Brake Disk Rotor as an Indexing Plate. For the past few years I have been thinking along these lines. My idea is to use as large a rotor as possible. My reasoning is as follows, the larger the index plate the more possible increased accuracy with the greater diameter of the plate. I cannot remember where I saw it but I believe in the Victorian era indexing plate of a number of feet in diameter was employed to achieve the highest degree of accuracy. The only thing I can remember was the Plate was held in the Horizontal plane and rotated using a worm gear in to the correct degree angle. I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter. Thanks for Listening. Dave
Can someone explain how is this indexing can be used on a normal lathe? I know it can be used on a milling machine, drilling machine, or a surface grinder, am I missing a point of all this.
very interesting achievment allan great job love your channell and i do pick up alot of ways to do things on your show. thanks again thumbs up stay safe from all of this covid crap.
Indexing Plate, Direct Index, I had not thought you would use the plate on the Chuck Side of the Lathe, Most I have seen using this principle have been on the outboard side of the Spindle where more space is available. I have to look over your site in a lot more depth.
Hi John. Let's say you need to put 3 flats on the end of a bar. You use the indexing ring to give you the 3 positions. Hold the bar in the chuck, and hold a device in the lathe's tool post which lets you mount a milling cutter powered by an electric drill. Now you can mill a flat on the bar, turn the chuck to the next position to mill the second flat then the third flat.
On the Drilling you rotated 15 degrees, but to my understanding, you did not explain how you determined accurately how you determined 15 degrees. Sorry if I missed how you were able to precisely make a 15 degree rotation.
Hi Dave I used a stepper motor computer controlled. See my Video indexing ring finishing and test. Set dti on chuck jaw rotate 360 check dti error to show error over 360 degrees.
Just being able to perform simple indexing without the expense of a full indexing head would be astounding.
Kudos Alan! The best part of this project is it's scalable for how ever many holes you may need,
Finding a means to achieve accurate, rotational angles without the use of an expensive Indexing head would be welcome addition to the workshop.
Muito bom
Aprovado valeu 👍 muito obrigado!
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Now I see your Radius Cutter, I have to look further into this method of yours, looks very interesting
Nice ! I can see how useful this can be!
Interesting project, great end results. Take care.
Gday Alan, this turned out really nice, I like the dividing head set you have, that was a good series of videos when you made it, it seems to be quite accurate on a full rotation which is brilliant, please stay safe and thanks for sharing, Cheers Matty
very nice and so neat. brilliant.
Marvelous
Alan.....
cheers from US....Paul
I have stumbled on your site where you are using a Brake Disk Rotor as an Indexing Plate.
For the past few years I have been thinking along these lines. My idea is to use as large a rotor as possible. My reasoning is as follows, the larger the index plate the more possible increased accuracy with the greater diameter of the plate. I cannot remember where I saw it but I believe in the Victorian era indexing plate of a number of feet in diameter was employed to achieve the highest degree of accuracy. The only thing I can remember was the Plate was held in the Horizontal plane and rotated using a worm gear in to the correct degree angle. I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter. Thanks for Listening. Dave
Hi Alan
Best rigged lathe indexing I've seen, 🇬🇧👍
Can someone explain how is this indexing can be used on a normal lathe? I know it can be used on a milling machine, drilling machine, or a surface grinder, am I missing a point of all this.
very interesting achievment allan great job love your channell and i do pick up alot of ways to do things on your show. thanks again thumbs up stay safe from all of this covid crap.
This is very clever!
Great idea. Thanks. Cheers!
hello Allan,nice video,thank you for sharing.....
Very well done! Your radius tool is the cats-ass! Very cool👍😊
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Would it be sacrilege to have put the holes straight into the chuck ? 😮
Allen, Could you show in another video how you made and mounted the index ring to the chuck/ spindle?
Thanks, Rod b
Those indexing drill holes could go straight in the chuck. It wouldn't hurt any thing. You can get an extra used chuck for 2 or 4 hundred bucks.
Indexing Plate, Direct Index, I had not thought you would use the plate on the Chuck Side of the Lathe, Most I have seen using this principle have been on the outboard side of the Spindle where more space is available. I have to look over your site in a lot more depth.
Can someone fill me in please. How can the lathe get used when the locating pin is in hole seen as the chuck cannot be turning.
Hi John. Let's say you need to put 3 flats on the end of a bar. You use the indexing ring to give you the 3 positions. Hold the bar in the chuck, and hold a device in the lathe's tool post which lets you mount a milling cutter powered by an electric drill.
Now you can mill a flat on the bar, turn the chuck to the next position to mill the second flat then the third flat.
Very nice, but how would you do it if you didn't have access to your cnc indexing set up like 99% of your viewers don't ?
Hi Allan see my video ruclips.net/video/gk558k3LsTQ/видео.html index ring
This shows a simple way of marking the hole positions using a paper template
Rotary table, my man.
I did hear the 24 holes, Therefore
1= 360, 2=180, 24=15, 36=10, 72=5.0 Please Explain how you rotated the angles exactly.
How did u attached ring on chuck glue or press fit?
I used some screws into the chuck back plate to hold it in place
@@enotsengineering ring has second surface from side of back plate, right?
The ring has a face at the back of the back plate
See part one ruclips.net/video/PdCgErVti84/видео.html
On the Drilling you rotated 15 degrees, but to my understanding, you did not explain how you determined accurately how you determined 15 degrees. Sorry if I missed how you were able to precisely make a 15 degree rotation.
Hi Dave I used a stepper motor computer controlled. See my Video indexing ring finishing and test. Set dti on chuck jaw rotate 360 check dti error to show error over 360 degrees.