aametalmaster Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I finally finished my ball bearing steady rest fingers i started 11 months ago. I used my lathe for all the milling of the slots and Z809 bearings i got off ebay cheap. Oh and i did use my SB shaper to knock off the corners...Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Nice one Bob, Good job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 (edited) Nice job on your fingers. Self Centering Steady Rest, capacity 5/16-5 inch, repeatable, This is a prototype, took me 15 years to come up with the design. one ring slides inside the other, Clearance .0015. One elderly old machinist who saw this called it a "Machinists Dream". I basically used it to quickly line up shafting to drill a center hole in the end for swinging between centers. I am a self taught machinist, I never learned there were things you couldn't do with a lathe and mill. I also made my own indexing head. Then made the necessary parts to turn it into a dividing head for cutting gears. Edited January 19, 2009 by irnsrgn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWooldridge Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Pretty sharp ideas, Bob and Jr. You can teach most anyone to punch code into a CNC but it takes ingenuity to come up real problem solving solutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Thank You HW, don't get to carried away tho, I have to sew my own buttons on now, and I'm sure don't want to start looking for bigger Caps. LOL Iffen I was talented or smart it wouldn't have taken me 15 years to find a solution. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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