Might I interject here?
No worry guys. My threads are your threads.
Just keep it clean.
Got some things worked out and a little bit of progress. Very little...
Here's the hack job I mentioned earlier...
Then I milled it to the height I needed and hacked it into two 'blanks'...
Then it was time to mount the rotary table (a little too early as it turns out). This is how I did it...
Then I mounted a bit of bar and milled a flat spot to place the blanks...
I found a Mac program to resize the pictures (but they didn't warn me it had a time limit!). Looking for a different freebie to do that as well as to adjust brightness. Suggestions welcome. I'd rather not use my Windows platform...I keep that one off the Net.
Note the Rube arrangement of dial indicators in the back.
It was at this point that craptitude struck again. Yes...'CRAPTITUDE'!!
Realization #1: I should have put the center hole in the blanks first. But I managed that by mounting the part on another spare part, clamping it onto the above work area, and drilling the hole. Had to eyeball it though because I didn't want to have to re-center the rotary table. Probably stupid. If I'm too far off there won't be enough 'side' to the part.
Realization #2: Once done I have to drill the center hole to the correct diameter. But there's a hole already there and the drill will probably follow that. I'm thinking when (if!) it comes to that time I can put a bit of spare aluminum on that and drill through that...hoping the drill will stay straight.
Realization #3: When I drilled the center hole there was sufficient vibration for my wonderful Rube creation to turn into...er...crap creation. Well we'll see how it goes. Milling the flat spot had no issues.
Realization #4: I haven't realized everything.
But hey...I touched my machines! This is a big thing considering how little time I've had for touching...anything. (I did get touched back by the vise I used to hack the blanks into two. Slipped and knocked my finger into some sharp corner. Hm...which has reminded me to look at it...oops...better get the Neosporin. At least it's the middle finger and will give a better effect when used appropriately at work.)
Good to see you Dave and Frazer.
Don't let the geezers keep you away.
Dean...To answer your question...it's 'Zee', 'Zeep', 'Zeepster' (not Zeep-meister or Zee-meister yet), Carl, or as you can see below...'Hey'. Other names are reserved for use by those I love ('idiot' is a favorite as well as 'turd' and you can guess who is allowed to call me those). You see the implication right?