always wanted a Monster, never quite got one, but...

[Mr Gazza]

Thank you for the link Buzzer, and for the excellent inspiration.
The kit you linked to will work very nicely indeed on my lovely old planer from an era before stepper motors and DROs.. The holy grail of repeatable settings. I could use 5 on my tenoner or could manage with 4. It will be the envy of chippies for many a country mile..

I had to grit my teeth a bit though.. Somebody is listing their kit as a digital Vernier!!

[buzzer]

Originally Posted by Mr Gazza

Thank you for the link Buzzer, and for the excellent inspiration.
The kit you linked to will work very nicely indeed on my lovely old planer from an era before stepper motors and DROs.. The holy grail of repeatable settings. I could use 5 on my tenoner or could manage with 4. It will be the envy of chippies for many a country mile..

I had to grit my teeth a bit though.. Somebody is listing their kit as a digital Vernier!!

No problem! the other thing I have been using is thread and nuts from 3D printers... I thought about it for a long time and in the end bought a couple as the thread and nuts on my old milling machine were VERY worn... its 1930 so its done well! Its transformed it! hardly any play in the table now

As an aside from working on the Ducati.... I have been busy doing a job on my Harley V-Rod today...I changed the oil and filter and in doing that took the opportunity to check on the timing bolt in the engine that can come loose on some bikes, which wrecks the engine!* nice and easy job, just drain the oil and remove the alternator cover which comes off easily.* I checked the torque of the bolt before I removed it and it was tight...* However to be on the safe side I removed it and cleaned both the internal thread and the bolt, and used some high strength thread lock on there as advised by the factory...

Impressive die-casting on that Vee-Rod outer casing! I thought they were reckoned to be very weighty motors, but that doesn't look to have excessive metal to it.

Nick

As regards upgrading old machinery, I fitted a stepper motor with digital control to my wheel-cutting engine for making clock parts, having become dissatisfied with the conventional dividing plate. The engine was made in 1990, based on an 18th C design, and the digital control lets me make the most precise analogue clock wheels ever seen! You've got to laugh...

Nick

[buzzer]

Originally Posted by The Clockie

As regards upgrading old machinery, I fitted a stepper motor with digital control to my wheel-cutting engine for making clock parts, having become dissatisfied with the conventional dividing plate. The engine was made in 1990, based on an 18th C design, and the digital control lets me make the most precise analogue clock wheels ever seen! You've got to laugh...

Nick

Come on Nick, you cant post things like that without a picture

OK, so long as you don't expect me to clear up my workshop! You can see the neglected dividing disc below the platform and the stepper motor and drive below that, driven off the microprocesser. 360 degrees of rotation is divided into 28,000 steps, and I can take wheels off and put them back on for extra trimming of teeth by fly-cutter with absolute accuracy. Bliss!

[Mr Gazza]

Yes, I think I can see how that all works. Is the dividing disc the same sort of thing as an indexing plate on a lathe?
Hats off to you for working out how to do that cunning conversion.

[Mr Gazza]

Originally Posted by The Clockie

, based on an 18th C design, and the digital control lets me make the most precise analogue clock wheels ever seen!

Is this the definition of steam punk?.. I second the notion for pictures..