precisionworks
Flashaholic
This chuck holds thin walled DOM tubing (.093") for boring or reaming. The 16 segmented slots provide equal pressure all the way around the tubing.
A short piece of aluminum solid round stock was used, 3.25" diameter, 3" long. Larger stock, like 4" or 5", would have been easier to mount to the face plate. With this diameter, the mounting holes are really close to the face plate hub, so three holes were spot faced & drilled, using the rotary table, at 120 deg spacing.
Three matching holes were drilled & tapped into the end of the aluminum stock. It was then bored out .001" larger than bushing diameter, with a step left inside the bore to locate the bushing. Then to the band saw to cut the slots.
The next step is to prep the OD of the bushing, by first setting tool height to center line using the shop built center height gage.
Then the bushing is mounted on an expanding mandrel for OD turning.
The boring bar is mounted and set to center line height +.010"
The final step (at this stage) is to bore the bushing. The bore measured 1.5550", and it needed to go to 1.562", so only .0035" had to be removed.
The chuck works really well, and maintains perfect centering of the bushings as they are bored.
A short piece of aluminum solid round stock was used, 3.25" diameter, 3" long. Larger stock, like 4" or 5", would have been easier to mount to the face plate. With this diameter, the mounting holes are really close to the face plate hub, so three holes were spot faced & drilled, using the rotary table, at 120 deg spacing.
Three matching holes were drilled & tapped into the end of the aluminum stock. It was then bored out .001" larger than bushing diameter, with a step left inside the bore to locate the bushing. Then to the band saw to cut the slots.
The next step is to prep the OD of the bushing, by first setting tool height to center line using the shop built center height gage.
Then the bushing is mounted on an expanding mandrel for OD turning.
The boring bar is mounted and set to center line height +.010"
The final step (at this stage) is to bore the bushing. The bore measured 1.5550", and it needed to go to 1.562", so only .0035" had to be removed.
The chuck works really well, and maintains perfect centering of the bushings as they are bored.