Indexius Maximus!

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I recently asked my IAP friends to help me with a indexing tutorial...

A friend from right here at IAP sent me, in the mail, all the goodies for the ULTIMATE indexing wheel.

This thing has 24 slots of indexing MADNESS! works like a charm... All I had to do was to build the mount for the pin. EASY MONEY!

As for results.... well, for a first try, i am happy!!
 

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The sprocket you see is welded to half of a nut. It was made by a GENIUS right here on our forum! I don't want to say his name because i don't think he wants to make these for a living..... It is engineering perfection. I started to WAY overcomplicate the sled for the pin, but after the original engineer reminded me to K.I.S.S. i came up with what you see. I am working on the dremel table a bit more now. I will post pics if it works out!
 
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I have found an aliminium casting in very common use here that accomodates a Dremel and allows modifications to almost anything. Rather than have you think I am busting in to your post send me a pm with your own E Mail and I will give you some pics and details. I developed this to enable me to create a cut off saw to cut brass cartridges or tensile steel bits etc, so simple and oh so usefull.

Peter.
 
PM sent....but......


You can post the pics here... I am sure i am not the only person interested!
 
I think I know who you were referring to about using the sprocket and when he mentioned it, I felt stupid for previously searching high and low for a gear to use. The whole time I had an old bicycle down the side of the house:redface:

Ron, how do you advance the Dremel into the wood, or is that the mod you are working on at the moment? I use a compound table ( x-y table)over the lathe bed.
 
You are prolly right if you think you know who it might have been... but i am sticking to my story.... Santa Claus gave it to me!!!


I have an X-Y table....... In my dreams when i sleep at night!!:ghost:

I did the sample piece by just loosening the banjo and using my hands. I quickly realized that this method is no good. Now i am working on just a simple freehand slide type table. I am hoping to have at least a little bit more control this way. I have cut a weird shaped table that i will attach to a dowel to put in the tool rest. The dremel will be strapped to the small piece it is strapped to in the pic minus the dowel.

Where would a guy get an x-y table? how hard would it be to make one i wonder.....
 
Yep, drawer slides would work to, but they aren't really expensive.
I can't recommend getting one enough. You'll find dozens of uses for it.
I've got the one in the link, but about 4 years ago it was only around £40.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=21825&name=compound+table&user_search=1&sfile=1&jump=44

My first stainless pen was made on my wood lathe and I had a bench grinder on the table to make a hex shape on it. I'll see if I can find a pic...

found it..
http://www.penturners.org/photos/index.php?n=4954
 
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NICE PEN!

So let me understand this... you mounted a bench grinder to the compound table thingy from the link to your woodlathe and used it to grind the flats on the pen in the photo?

that is incredible. I gotta get me one of these things for sure!
 
THOSE ARE SICK!


They look like super fancy handles for a faucet or something. Nw i have something else on my list to use the index on! Thanks for the pics!!!
 
RAdams said:
NICE PEN!

So let me understand this... you mounted a bench grinder to the compound table thingy from the link to your woodlathe and used it to grind the flats on the pen in the photo?

that is incredible. I gotta get me one of these things for sure!
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Here are a couple of pics. The first one is with the grinder for the stainless, sorry but it the only pic I had, and the second is a similar setup but with a router to cut the flats on the plastic part. But same pen.

I used the indents around the scroll chuck for the indexing.
 

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skiprat said:
Here are a couple of pics. The first one is with the grinder for the stainless, sorry but it the only pic I had, and the second is a similar setup but with a router to cut the flats on the plastic part. But same pen.

I used the indents around the scroll chuck for the indexing.
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wow. the ideas are flowing now boss. That is pure genius! Why stop at a dremel right? Why not a grinder, or router..... hmmmmm......:biggrin:
 
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