A few things I made

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

vertical ball turner and indexing jig and QCT holders

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

The vertical ball turner someone linked to a while back was better than the attempt I was making at the time ..so I scrapped mine and made it instead. It took this newbie a while. I made a couple of tiny mods.. a direct fitting qct holder and a base plate to prevent the gib strip moving. And I used cast iron bushings instead of the steel called for in the plan.

To engrave the indexing ring I had to create a simple indexing jig.. this was a block off ally squared off, cast iron bushes to hold a spindle interfernce fitted into the back of a DIY ER32 chuck with an indexing pin to hold the ally disc and a protecting nack washer. The pin can be located to three radii for further hole systems (or obviously new discs). It gets held in the mill vice either vertical or horizontally.

I mae a few QCT holders when i first got the lathe. I've just spent the last week ploughing my way through making a decent batch and finally finsihed them today:

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Very nice work.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Indeed, nicely done.

Neil

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