Compact workpiece clamps for use on an angleplate or faceplate. Home workshop project. To visit my webpage relating to this video click on the following homews.co.uk/pa...
Thanks all for your comments. Unfortunately though, at 84 (2017), I now find it necessary to limit my involvement in my website and videos as the brain is not as agile as it once was. However, should you want to contact me, use the contact page on my website, here, www.homews.co.uk/page6.html . Do please read my comments there before posting. Harold
Sorry for the delay in replying but have had computer problems. As to the method of making the Packing Pieces, I am now almost 86 (2019) and the memory is now poor, cannot remember therefore how I made the parts. However, the method I would use today is to place each part in the three jaw and drill and tap the centre hole at the same stage as facing the ends. The thread does not have a lot of work to do so the hole size can be on the large side. For the second side, set the jaws so the part is off centre and drill and tap again. The two holes are not used at the same time so the distance between them is not critical. Do though loosen the same jaw between making each part. The step can then be milled with the part held in a vice using a V block against one jaw and the part in the V. Do not over tighten as you may split the V block in two if made of cast iron. You could though make a simple Vee in mild steel. Harold
Thanks all for your comments. Unfortunately though, at 84 (2017), I now find it necessary to limit my involvement in my website and videos as the brain is not as agile as it once was.
However, should you want to contact me, use the contact page on my website, here, www.homews.co.uk/page6.html . Do please read my comments there before posting.
Harold
love these skills being passed on. So much information on the website
Simple but ingenious!
It really helps to see these being demonstrated.
During manufacture, how would you hold the packing pieces in order to mill the step and drill the holes in one setup?
Sorry for the delay in replying but have had computer problems. As to the method of making the Packing Pieces, I am now almost 86 (2019) and the
memory is now poor, cannot remember therefore how I made the parts.
However, the method I would use today is to place each part in the three jaw and drill and tap the centre hole at the same stage as facing the ends. The thread does not have a lot of work to do so the hole size can be on the large side.
For the second side, set the jaws so the part is off centre and drill and tap again. The two holes are not used at the same time so the distance between them is not critical. Do though loosen the same jaw between making each part.
The step can then be milled with the part held in a vice using a V block against one jaw and the part in the V. Do not over tighten as you may split the V block in two if made of cast iron. You could though make a simple Vee in mild steel.
Harold
Harold Hall thanks for responding!