Re: making an ali flexible coupler

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> Yes, that's exactly the setup I had in mind.
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> Jon

Oh good, I'm not a total dunce then :)

I tried to make a simple coupler this morning. I turned an ali blank
and epoxied it to a plate that could then be clamped to my mill bed.
A little low tech perhaps but I don't have much in the way of
clamping stuff. Using a cheap diamond cutting wheel that is about
0.6mm thick I cut a number of orthogonal slots through the blank. I
was using a 0.1mm step down and a fairly fast feed rate and used
sewing machine oil for suds (all I had handy). It worked really well
as far as the cutting goes. The disk kept clean and the glue held (I
used 5min epoxy but baked it), of course the forces involved with
grinding should be pretty small anyway.

Only problem is it is an unflexible flexible coupler but I am still
happy as I learn't a lot.

This also means war so I will definately have a go at a spiral cut
using a temporary flexible coupler on the rotary table and a thinner
0.17mm disk from www.eternaltools.com

Cheers,

Graham