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NO SOLUTION WAS FOUND USING AVAILABLE HOLE PLATESa plate with an integer multiple of 25 holes is required
I occasionally turned the workpiece to give the saw less surface to have to work on; things go a bit quicker then, and a steady drip of methylated spirits (rubbing alcohol if I'm not mistaken for you gents & ladies in the States - don't know what our friends Down Under calls it? ) helped lubricate and clear the chips off the blade's teeth:
Drat... Rats... Darn It... Cr@p !!!
Tel wins the grand prize - and even did the calculations for me - Thanks mate Pure simplicity, and rarely seen or mentioned nowadays. If it weren't for the fact that I had a couple of drinks with a business client this afternoon, I'd be dashing off to the shop now. Hopefully I can get off work a bit earlier tomorrow.
but after I rubbed a slightly dirty oily finger across things,
So I need 125 divisions on the dividing head to finish the job... I ran Marv's DIVHEAD program after that and what do you know... With the hole plates I have available for my dividing head, the result was:QuoteNO SOLUTION WAS FOUND USING AVAILABLE HOLE PLATESa plate with an integer multiple of 25 holes is required Drat... Rats... Darn It... Cr@p !!! Not Marv's fault - I just used his program!.So, now I need to either make an index plate with 25/50/75 holes, or I have to break down the setup as it was - well -"set up" - and use the rotary table to do the 2.88o per mark off that...I need to think a bit now Regards, Arnold
A handle is something my ML7 came without but you have given enough information for me to possibly try using an old sewing machine hand wheel to start with. I'll have to do some investigations as to sizes etc thanks for the thread great work.