Metal section

[Peter Fairbrother]

I'm looking for something with a section like this:

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so I can build a slide like this:


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for a machine tool. Probably want something like turcite on the face, so
great accuracy isn't needed, but probably something like rigid cast iron
would be good.


any suggestions?

thx,

-- Peter Fairbrother

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Wee-e-e-e-l-llll - depends how far you want to go.

Thermit Welding *used* to formulate and make up powders to order, to
cast just about any grade of iron r steel.

Basically aluminium powder and iron oxide, traces (or more) of other
metals are added.

You make yur mould (usually oily sand, Petrabond, or similar, and set up
the crucibles provided, accrding to instructions.

The powder is ignited using a fat stumpy sparkler, and when it has
cooled sufficiently the molten metal is tapped to run into the mould(s)
when the colour of the crucible in the clear half of the viewer
(provided) matches the red of the coloured half.

The result can then be machined to suit.

(I used to work in 'The Tantalum', a shop not a hundred yards from
Thermit, back in the '70s.)

--
Old Nick

[Jim Wilkins]

"Peter Fairbrother" <zenad...@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4ffa8656$0$1151$5b6a...@news.zen.co.uk...

http://manufacturing.zibb.co.uk/suppliers/dovetail+slides/gb/25751576

However;
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/benchtop_machines/93956-linear_bearing_rails_vs_dovetail.html

I've made a few dovetailed machine slides that I had to finish by hand
as I don't have equipment to grind the angles.
https://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/Tools#5277053481061578594
https://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/Tools#5277404613483169826
The pattern on the end of the round part is from surface grinding, but
I can't dress an angled wheel accurately, and anyway the grinder lacks
the travel to finish larger machine ways.

Round or square ways are easier to make from purchased ground stock.

If you assemble the vee ways from strips you may end up with less
rigidity than round linear rails.

jsw

[David Littlewood]

In article <4ffa8656$0$1151$5b6a...@news.zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother
<zenad...@zen.co.uk> writes

Peter,

Does the article in the latest MEW (using a Sieg extended milling table
as a sub-table on another mill) spark any ideas? You didn't give any
dimensions, but at only Ł49, it would be worth thinking about.

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Machines-Accessories/Milling-Mach
ines/Model-Super-X1L-Mill

Oh dear, I hope I'm not looking like a shill for AET - just a satisfied
customer, I assure you!

David
--
David Littlewood

[Peter Fairbrother]

I made some ways using suppoterd rail and ball slides - they are nowhere
near tough (or accurate) enough.

Saw a video of a chap making box ways with parallels, which seemed
interesting, but I can't find it now.


-- Peter Fairbrother