Re: Milli a new composite mill kit
Originally Posted by
ardenum
Hey Peter,
I've been thinking on how to additionally stabilize the rails on the surface plate. Came up with a vice style micro clamp for each bolt, from each side. I'm wondering if it's more trouble than it's worth. I'm trying to not do any cutouts in the plate and only drill holes to put inserts in. How would you go about analyzing something like this? any gut feelings? pictures attached
By the way, I did that previous FE and it seems that for my particular application (hole spacing 60mm apart) the biggest insert would be D25mm and anything bigger affects the granite.
Your proposal also allows you to dial in / adjust the straightness of the rail (side to side).
I've seen a few other ways used to do this:
Dowel pressed onto the side of the rail by a countersunk head screw
Horizontal cam (John McNamara https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/for...?th=139042&p=1)
7xCNC.com - CNC info for the minilathe (7x10, 7x12, 7x14, 7x16)