How to modify and use a Spin indexer (Spindexer)
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2022
- In this video I explain what a spin indexer is and how to use it. I show how to modify it on a milling machine to make it more user friendly and I demonstrate indexing on two different projects.
Top Lipton's @oxtoolco video on modifying a spindexer;
• Spindexer Indexer 1
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Another modification I might recommend is adding a slot to the bottom for a key, to let you directly key the spindexer to the slots on your mill table.
Great tips on how to get the spindexer into the vice without bolting it to the table, will definitely try this, thanks!
Just binge watching your channel, great work and thanks for all of the content
An excellent overview of how to modify the Spindexer for use on a mill. Excellent filming and narration. Thank you for sharing. Glad I found your channel. 👏👏👍😀 Andrew
Nice job. Good idea
Very cool! If you haven't seen it already, some folks are modding these spindexers so that the spindle mounts backwwards in the casting. this allows for the bigger end to be farther away from the mill spindle leaving a little more room to work. Been binging your channel, great work on the videos keep them coming!!
Hi Jonesey, first view of your channel
Great info thanks..
Great project. Really enjoy your channel. If you get a chance do a shop tour to see what sort of Lathe and milling machines you've got. BTW WOOD Creek workshop has also done a very interesting Mod to Spindexer. Worth watching. 👍❤
I fitted a 4 inch 3jaw chuck to mine , mainly because all of my 5c collets went with a lathe I sold. Lot more versatile now though than collets.
Thanks
Nicely filmed video Jonesy!
Nicely filmed and good narration. I’ve just purchased the Hemingway die holder following seeing your video.
Great video what is your next spindexer project? 👍😊
You could do non integer multiples too. You will have to use a multiple of 360 and then divide down. You have a ratio of n/m when n = turns, m = degrees to turn each time. It means you'll be turning the wheel multiple n times to complete the sequence IIRC. You are in essence doing a modulo divide.
I’d would really like to the die holder being made and than it being used thanks.
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Nice, I was wondering how these spin indexers work. Seem very easy to use, much simpler than dividing heads! Looking at these tailstock die holder adapters, do I get it right that in the end you have threaded holes in both the main dieholder (outer part) and the adapters? Wouldn't it make more sense to just countersink the holes in the adapters, and use cone-point grub-screws? Otherwise I don't quite get how your threads in the outer piece line up with the thread in the adapter. Hopefully I'm expressing myself clearly enough. What I mean is that if you have two parts and both have threaded holes, then if you run a screw through both holes, the parts might be spread apart a bit, depending on how the thread was cut. Unless you clamped the two parts together and cut the threads in both in one go.
I would like to use a spin index to mount a boring head then use it on the lathe to cut convex and concave curves. I think I would have to remove my compound and build an adapter plate to fit the compound mounting and then bolt the index to the plate. Does that sound reasonable or am I making this way harder than it needs to be?