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Post by miniburrell on Sept 25, 2008 15:50:27 GMT
Hi All
I have a post running in the stationary engine section about about vertice cutting, and some of the responces are saying invest in a slitting tool.
I have a SIEG Micro Lathe C1 and wondering if there is the slitting attachment for this. i have had a quick look on line, but quite worried about a blade spinning in my lathe with no saw bench style to slide the piece of work through the blade. can any one give me advise if the slitting tool attachment is available in a saw bench style, or if i just get the slitting tool is it available for my lathe and how do you hold the piece safely whilst cutting.
Many Thnaks
MB
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brozier
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Post by brozier on Sept 25, 2008 16:55:07 GMT
Hiya, I wouldn't hand feed anything into a slitting saw but that's because I like my hands ;D On the Myford I clamped a small vice to the cross slide to hold a collet I needed to slit. I guess you could come up with something similar...  The saw arbour can be mounted in the three jaw and is a simple turning excercise.... Cheers Bryan |
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paul
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Post by paul on Sept 25, 2008 21:32:00 GMT
miniburrell: I've got a C3 type mini-lathe and I plan to add a fixture in place of the compound slide to allow boring or slitting from the chuck, basically a table that you can clamp things too. (Remove the compound and use the two 6mm screws that usually set the angle to secure your 'table').
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Post by jgb7573 on Sept 26, 2008 7:51:38 GMT
Hi MB,
You could see whether you can hold the piece you want to slit in the toolpost. Remove the tool used for turning and put the workpiece in the space vacated. Tighten up the screw which normally hold the toolbit in place to hold the workpiuece, and off you go. You may need bits of packing to hold things securely and in the right place.
John
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Post by circlip on Sept 26, 2008 8:31:15 GMT
And with reference to speeds MB, you're cutting METAL, so you don't need to rotate the slitting saw at thousands of RPM.
Regards Ian.
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wayne
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Post by wayne on Sept 27, 2008 15:57:08 GMT
I think MEW had a somthing in a recent issue for making a saw atachment for the c3 lathe
from memory it was this year
Hope this is of some help
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Post by spug103 on Sept 27, 2008 23:04:55 GMT
you could also try to clamp the work piece directly to either the compound slide or removing that, the saddle, if the vice or tool post isnt an option on your set up but i would go for either of those first if you can,
and as circlip has said the slitting saw will not be revolving very fast any way, just clamp it tight and dont touch it,
you only need to buy the saw part, the arbour is easy to make its just a bit of bar with a boss turned to suit the hole in the saw, just thinner than the saw in depth, drill and tap a decent sized hole in the end, turn up a nice chunky washer, and a bolt to secure it with, but dont run in reverse or the blade will come out!
Cheers
Ben
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Post by circlip on Sept 28, 2008 6:22:45 GMT
Just a slight correction to Ben's post, the register needs to be LONGER than the blade thickness and the thick washer RECESSED to cater for the extra thickness. If you make the location to suit the thinnest blade you'll deform it on thicker ones.
Regards Ian
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