Model Engineers’ Workshop – July 2019

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August’s issue, number 283, will once more be packed

to the gills with more great workshop articles:

Brian Wood makes a drill over 2m long!

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Peter Barker on mounting chucks on taper

arbours

Eric Clarke cuts metric screws on a very

Imperial Drummond Lathe

Coming up in issue 283

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wheel so as to allow its free rotation

on the axle that is the machine screw,

photos 11 and 12.

My milling machine is mounted on a

fairly low level chest of draws next to my

front door, in my hallway. After fitting

this design of secondary wheel to both

x and y axes, the task of moving the

worktable transversely and lengthways

is much easier and I am not as contorted

as before, when trying to move about

in such a confined space as my hallway,

photos 13 and 14. ■

Effi cient function of

the secondary wheel is

dependent on there being

a very small unthreaded

space between the end of

the bush and the surface of

the primary wheel...

14

Another view of the hallway.