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Offline Joe d

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Taig sized ball turner
« on: March 15, 2010, 10:10:33 AM »
Hi all

Got hit with a little bit of  :proj:, need a ball turner for a number of upcoming things, so got busy and made one

milled out a bit of 6061 for the base, replicating the dovetail on the original Taig cross-slide


cleaned up a bit of round stock for the rotating bit, milled a dovetail slot for the tool holder; the little bump in the side of the slot is for a piece of teflon to ease the travel of the sliding bit


Here's all the parts


And here it is where it belongs


Cheers Joe
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Offline Pelallito

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2010, 10:18:45 AM »
Joe,
Looks great.
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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2010, 01:21:10 PM »
Nice work Joe!  :clap:

Thanks for showing......  :thumbup:

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2010, 01:53:57 PM »
Joe

Looks great Joe. Thanks for sharing it with us.  :ddb: :ddb:

Cheers  :beer:

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2010, 03:18:35 PM »
Cool ........   :clap: .......... nice bit of work Joe, ............. and also reminds me I need to make one for my Boxford  

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2010, 03:44:00 PM »
Joe,

I've had in mind to make one for my Sherline. You've given me some ideas as how I might go about it.

Very nice write up too, two items at once, great.  :thumbup:

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2010, 09:11:50 PM »
That's very nice  :thumbup:


I have a peatol/taig under the bench.... Possibly soon under the hammer, but this would be nice to make for it first.... Might clinch the sale?

Have you got the super new ball bearing crossslide screw? Got one fro a show last year, very smooth  :)



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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2010, 09:43:20 PM »
Thanks, guys

Ralph:  Still muddling along with the original crossslide screw.  If you really want to up your chances at sale time, make one of these:



and stuff it in a box like this:


Cheers, Joe
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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2010, 09:28:01 AM »
Nice indexing system there Joe.

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Re: Taig sized ball turner
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2010, 09:53:31 AM »
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Ralph:  Still muddling along with the original crossslide screw.  If you really want to up your chances at sale time, make one of these:

Now that's just showing off  :lol: 

Seriously... What a bit of kit  :clap:  I don't think the talent, time and patience would be available from me at this moment for such an elaborate project..... I can't even finish the little ones I have already started!


I'm sure I'm going to have to search through your posts to see what else you've been hiding  :scratch:   :)





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