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PARTS LIST
PART NO.
QTY.
Base Plate
Lip-Support Bar
Lip-Adjust. Screw-Guide
Top Guide
Bottom Guide
Lip-Support Guide
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Lip-Support Lock-Nut
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Lip-Support Finger
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Adjusting-Screw Retainer
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4 The vernier height gage in use to determine the center line height
of the air spindle.
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Air-Spindle
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Clamp Collar
Air Bearing
Ball-Handle
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Adjusting-Screw Retainer
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Brass Gib
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Lip-Support Clamp-Plate
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Clamp-Plate
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5 The vernier height gage in use to determine the center line height
of the wheel head spindle.
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6 The vernier height gage in use to make a correct height setting for
the lip support finger.
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7 The dial indicator showing the correct wheel head elevation setting
for a 6.0 clearance angle, with a 2.25" diameter grinding wheel.
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1 3 A general view of the air spindle assembly, with the entire cutter lip support
mechanism in its operating position.
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This view illustrates how the grind of the dull cutter starts at
the top end of the flute.
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Walter B.
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end clearances on dull end mills.
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awfully sure
you have done
an accurate
layout job on the
location of your air
holes. It pays to
double check!
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from the 1/2 x 1.0" stock you have left. With the part
still in the mill vise, get your edge finder and locate the
geometrical center of the slot you have just made and
measured. Center drill this geometrical center location.
Now you can remove the lip support bar from the mill.
It's not complete, but you are finished with it for now.
It's also of interest to see if the section of raw stock you
are going to use for detail 5 will fit in the slot you
milled for it in detail 2.
The next item on the agenda is detail 5, the bottom
guide. It is made from the same kind of material as the
lip support bar, previously machined. Get out a piece
of 1/2 X 1.00" steel, long enough to finish out at 2.50"
long. Set it in your milling vise (that has previously
been indicated to parallel the long axis of table travel),
and mill the end surfaces of the bar to give a finished
length of 2.50" to the workpiece. Install an edge finder
in the milling spindle collet and locate the long edge
of the work.
Remove the edge finder and install an undersized 3/8"
diameter end mill in the spindle, and move the table of
the machine to place the center line of the workpiece
directly under the center line of the cutter axis.
Mill the central slot in the workpiece to a finished
depth of 0.188". Start widening the cutter track in the
workpiece by a small increment, each in turn on each
side of the slot. Measuring carefully, widen the slot in
this manner until a finished width of 0.375" is attained.
Next, remove the workpiece from the milling vise, and
try to remember where you stashed your lip support bar
(detail 2). When you have found it (whew!), take it to
the drill press and drill a No. 7 (.201" diameter) hole
through at the center drilled location.
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The next job will be to make the lip support guide (part
9). We will make this item from a 3-1/2" length of 1.00"
diameter cold rolled steel, in a somewhat sneaky
manner. The first parts of the process are simple lathe
jobs, and I expect you will have a three-jaw chuck, so
chuck the raw stock with 2-3/4" protruding from the
chuck. Take your first OD machining pass on the
workpiece, removing only enough material from the bar
to clean up the diameter about 75% or 80%. Then face
the end of the bar and center drill; the center drilled
hole is now concentric with the cleaned-up diameter
of the bar.
Drill the central, long hole No. 7 (.201") diameter to a
depth of 2-3/4", and tap the hole 1/4-20 NC to a depth
of 3/4". Reverse the part in the chuck, making sure that
each jaw of the chuck grips on the machined diameter
of the workpiece, and redrill the central hole to 0.257"
(letter F) diameter, to a depth such that 5/8" of the 1/4-20
NC thread remains. Cut off the chucking lug end of the
bar and face the end to a total workpiece length of 2.63".
You are finished in the lathe and will move to the mill.
Since it is vital to have the axis of the drilled and tapped
hole central to the 0.375" square tongue, it is necessary
to mill only to the proper depth at this point. So, now,
measure the cleaned-up diameter of your workpiece,
and if that diameter is only 0.988" diameter, it is now
necessary to mill the blank to a finished thickness of
0.682". The dimension is figured thus: 0.988/2 = 0.494
- 0 . 1 8 8 = 0.306". Then 0.988 - 0 . 3 0 6 = 0.682".
When that dimension has been successfully attained,
the blank is flipped over in the mill vise and the top
side is milled, the important dimension to hold being
the 0.375" thickness of the tongue for a length of 2.50".
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The second step - cleaning up the inside angle of the angle iron.
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The third step - machining the outside dimensions of the
retainer after the workpiece has been sawed from the bar.
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The collection of parts needed for the Z-axis adjusting
mechanism of the lip support finger assembly.
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voraciously, and
undertook to build a
version of the Wilson
machine. I say it was
a "version" of that
design because my
machine is bigger
than the Wilson
design, I needed to
grind end mills of
3.0" flute length and
1-1/8" diameter. This
made my machine
grow in size, and that
caused me difficulties
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in duplicating the
Wilson wheel head
design; I had only
an 8.0" diameter
turntable - too small
to manufacture his
item 22 (wheel head
support) members for
my larger machine.
So, my wheel head
design departs from
his, but in many
respects our machines
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mounting arm and the long
travel indicator assembly.
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then:
mu = 2 grams / 1795.57 grams mu = 0.0011.
This coefficient of friction is 135 times less (0.15/0.0011
= 135.14) than Professor Chaddock could realize (0.15)
for completely dry steel-on-steel contact.
Additionally, the 0.0007" measured drop in the air
spindle center line height over its 4.4" travel would
generate a tapered grind on a 1-1/8" diameter end mill of
only 0.4 micro inches (0.0000004"), if the flute length
of the cutter were 4.4", and correspondingly less if the
cutter were shorter. This is a totally insignificant error,
which would be even less if the -4.0 lb. air spindle were
reduced in weight. With these results, it would seem
my initial complaints about the Quorn have been
adequately resolved.
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and those that have an oil filled crankcase. You are lucky
if you have an oil-less compressor so you do not have to
worry about oil droplets getting entrained in the air going
to your air spindle. If you have the oil-using compressor,
you will have to install a coalescing oil filter (about
$100) and a replaceable filter another ($30), or conduct
a housecleaning operation, should your air spindle
start to get sticky in its housing.
These are the advantages
and drawbacks to having
an air spindle type of tool
grinder in your shop. But the
disadvantages of not having
any tool and cutter grinder
are so bothersome that
if you ever achieve the
ownership of this kind of
machine, you'll wonder
how and why you ever did
without it.
REFERENCE:
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