UK Steel Supplier? 125 x 125 x 50 BMS

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I thought it looked square so you would need to be able to remove that L to make use of being able to position it in those four positions.

Not sure what QCTP you have but some are drilled for a vertical index pin, you just drill 4 holes in the top of your block or even a ring of holes then the QCTP can be indexed to them simply by lifting the pin and it also helps stop rotation

[MarkSParticipant @idriver]

A huge thank you to everyone for their help and guidance on this, I have now redesigned my original plan, both because of the feedback and in some way due to the none availability of steel stock.

I am going to start with 125x125x15mm base plate with 97.4mm did plinth bolted onto it from below, offset to one corner. I will see how it goes with just the clamping bolt to start with, if necessary I can always add some sort of locating pin at a later date.

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Whilst making changes have a look at boring bars especialy for threading. I had to use a boring bar which was to large to fit my toolpost and found making a simple block to bolt to the cross slide was fairly simple as the center height of boring and screw cutting bars are center height matched to the spindle centerline height. it is simple to bolt a block to the cross slide put a drill or boring head into the lathe spindle to get tool center height correct.

I made my one with two diferent diamiters and it is solid to use.

David

 

 

[Author]

Posts