End Milling on the Clarke CL430 lathe (Re; Milling a dovetail on the Clarke CL430 lathe) скачать в хорошем качестве

End Milling on the Clarke CL430 lathe (Re; Milling a dovetail on the Clarke CL430 lathe)

This is a follow up video for the micro mill project I started in my previous videos "Milling a dovetail on the Clarke CL430 lathe"... Here I am machining one of the main parts which make up an miniature X Y cross table which will form the bottom end of a very small and compact micro milling machine which is based on the Emco Unimat 3 and Unimat 4 stand alone milling machines (which I have) but find them too big and heavy for the small work I do when making small lock parts etc. I will post a proper video showing this 'micro mill' once it is finished. Just a quick note to the rather rude user who thought it was a jolly good idea to post an inappropriate comment calling me a dangerous worker all because I had chucked up a milling cutter in my lathe's 6 inch 3 jaw chuck... For his information that dovetail milling cutter was held 100% secure in the lathe chuck and never moved or drifted anywhere during the 6 hours of milling work I had done to mill all of the required dovetails for this great project... Sure, I could have done it better and probably more safer on my Emco FB-2 mill had I been able to get to it (long story !), but with my biggest mill not available to me at the moment, I had no choice but to set up my Clarke CL 430 metal work lathe to function as a emergency mill in order to get the job done... Whilst, I don't have all the super expensive collets and all that refined milling gear, I still found a simple and less costly way of holding a milling cutter safely solid in the machine by placing the milling cutter into the 6 inch 3 jaw lathe chuck and securing it very tightly using a half inch square drive socket wrench ratchet to tighten up the chuck by all 3 tightening points on the chuck... This worked very well (as I have already proven in my last few previous videos) and was more than ADEQUATE to be safe enough to perform all the milling operations so far with great success ! As I said in my video, The Clarke CL430 lathe worked very well as a robust mill to get the job done and it actually felt more solid (with less flex) than my Emco FB-2 mill which has about a 4 inch dia column post. Guys, please remember that I am only a member of the public and not a wealthy company director with multi million pound machinery... this video was only to show what can be done if you just have a good lathe available to you and you want to do some milling, whilst it is not as fully functional as a proper mill which has a much longer X Y table capacity and a better way of securing the milling cutters in the spindle, I did do well with this setup on my bread and butter cheap Chinese lathe and got the job done very well. Hope you enjoy this video - Best regards, Joseph D.