Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Automatic boring head?

Hi ;
also model engineering magazine (uk) run a project like that a few years back
I got mine after fixing a scrapped one ( someone started the machine without checking
for clearence, and broke the bottom part where the tool fits ,I made a new part and got my
boring head
regards
mariano


Smoke wrote:

> I'm not really sure, but a vaguely remember seeing an article (or perhaps an
> ad?) in the Home Shop Machinist about building your own quite some years
> ago.
>
> Smoke
>
> >I just used the one at work last week We had a saw arbour wash out
> >the Cerclip groove I took out the Auto Boring head and recut the
> >groove after I welded it up .I heard that there is a kit out there
> >some where .Where you can make your own I will find out and post it
> >unless some elseknows where to find it ..
> >
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., cadman@p... wrote:
> >> I have used one before, as well as a manual one that I made. The
> >only
> >> difference is, the automatic one there is a ring that you can hold
> >> while it's turning that will step the boaring bar over by some
> >> increment (.001). All you have to do to move the boaring bar over
> >by
> >> .005 is to count 5 clicks when you grab the ring. Of course the
> >> boaring head is turning very slow so it's not unsafe to do this :)
> >>
> >> With the manual one, you have to stop the machine and turn the
> >screw
> >> with an allen head wrench to move the boaring bar over.
> >>
> >> CADMAN
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Tim Goldstein <timg@k...> wrote:
> >> > OK, I have seen this item listed in catalogs and still don't
> >> understand why
> >> > I would want one, when it would be used, if it can work like a
> >> standard
> >> > boring head, or how I would make it work automatically.
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone help reduce my ignorance?
> >> >
> >> > Tim
> >> > [Denver, CO]
> >
> >
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