As promised here is a little sidetrack I'm taking in the electronics blog build, to try to upgrade my dremel drill press for drilling printed circuit boards more accurately.
As you can see in my videos, my electronics lab, and model machine shop, are in the same room, which was my bedroom located in our basement, where I moved into another room, to give way to converting this room into my machine shop / electronics lab, because of this it makes it very nice to work in here during the cold winter months
here are the first set of WIP videos:
Introduction
Hobby machining series:
This is part 1
In this video, I start tearing down my old dremel drill press, and looking at design procedures for fabricating a new saddle for it, with some preliminary measurements.
enjoy.
Hobby machining series:
This is part 2
In this video, I do all the major layouts, then start machining to those layout lines, to establish the projection above the surface of the workpiece, for machining the dovetail slides.
enjoy.
Hobby machining series:
This is part 3
n this video, I machine the dovetails feature for a sliding fit to mate with the drill press quill, then a demonstration of the smooth fitting after it was lapped.
enjoy.
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In the next set of videos, I will need to take my time as it requires more precision machining, I'll be machining the slot ontop of the dovetail to slide in and fasten the gear rack blank, as well as making a gear cutter, and cutting the rack, then working on the clamping mechanisms to be adjustable so as to give precision mounting for acurately drilled holes.
All that coming up.
As you can see in my videos, my electronics lab, and model machine shop, are in the same room, which was my bedroom located in our basement, where I moved into another room, to give way to converting this room into my machine shop / electronics lab, because of this it makes it very nice to work in here during the cold winter months
here are the first set of WIP videos:
Introduction
Hobby machining series:
This is part 1
In this video, I start tearing down my old dremel drill press, and looking at design procedures for fabricating a new saddle for it, with some preliminary measurements.
enjoy.
Hobby machining series:
This is part 2
In this video, I do all the major layouts, then start machining to those layout lines, to establish the projection above the surface of the workpiece, for machining the dovetail slides.
enjoy.
Hobby machining series:
This is part 3
n this video, I machine the dovetails feature for a sliding fit to mate with the drill press quill, then a demonstration of the smooth fitting after it was lapped.
enjoy.
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In the next set of videos, I will need to take my time as it requires more precision machining, I'll be machining the slot ontop of the dovetail to slide in and fasten the gear rack blank, as well as making a gear cutter, and cutting the rack, then working on the clamping mechanisms to be adjustable so as to give precision mounting for acurately drilled holes.
All that coming up.