Higbee Thread with live tooling

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Higbee Thread with live tooling

Post by suntravel »

This is how I do it on my lathe



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Re: Higbee Thread with live tooling

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Very nice, I would love to see some more pictures and details about your milling attachment. Thanks for sharing Gary.

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Re: Higbee Thread with live tooling

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Salt and Pepper shakers or match holders?

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Re: Higbee Thread with live tooling

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glbreil wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 4:13 pm Very nice, I would love to see some more pictures and details about your milling attachment. Thanks for sharing Gary.
This is the unused tool post slide mounted as Y axis with a 12x4 ballscrew and a 400W JMC servo driving a ER20 spindle.

Easy peasy one weekend build :D

Uwe
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Re: Higbee Thread with live tooling

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Black Forest wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 2:39 am Salt and Pepper shakers or match holders?
Smuggling case :lol:

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Re: Higbee Thread with live tooling

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suntravel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 1:38 pm
glbreil wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 4:13 pm Very nice, I would love to see some more pictures and details about your milling attachment. Thanks for sharing Gary.
This is the unused tool post slide mounted as Y axis with a 12x4 ballscrew and a 400W JMC servo driving a ER20 spindle.

Easy peasy one weekend build :D

Uwe

Very nice!

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