Faceplates

KMS tools was selling 2" faceplate at a good price. I don't know if the sale is still on. Their web site is down but you can call them :

"RikC" wrote in news:IUiVa.19223$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

I bought a couple of faceplates from Fisch at a show for $14 each, but then had to buy a 1" x 8 tpi tap to chase the threads. They had been hard coated all over including the internal threads! No solvent I had available would touch the coating.

Now that I have the tap, I'm thinking about just mounting a piece of scrap wood

directly to the spindle by drilling and tapping the wood and maybe hardening the threads with Minwax hardener.

OBTW - I have and use a Jet-1236

ARM

Alan If you plan on making a wood faceplate, you might like to look at my web site under making a glue block.

I just bought a smallish 1x8 aluminum faceplate, here's the link:

Same idea, but for vacuum chucks, I've used a hex nut and piece of MDF cut to fit the nut (traced the nut near center on your piece of MDF, used a scroll saw to cut the internal hex shape out of the MDF) - face this assembly with scrap hardwood or corian, and glue it all together. I had to put a spacer between the face of the nut and spindle bearing to make up the gap - 1/2" corian worked well for this. True up the face plate on the lathe.

John

ARM

That is on my list of things to do too. I've been reading the discussion on vacuum chucks and wondering if I could just use that hex nut in that way. Use the same idea but making a vacuum chuck instead of a screw and/or glue faceplate. I had to make a spacer as well because the length of the nut was a little shorter than the length of the spindle threading.

There's more ideas to try than time to do it.

- Andrew

AHilton wrote: (clip) I do have the faceplate marked as to where I start threading it onto the spindle so that if I ever do (and I rarely take it off until the piece is fully done) take it off, then I can start threading at the same place and get the same seating that it had originally. ^^^^^^^^^ You needn't bother about where you start the thread. There is only one way to start a single-pitch thread.

Ummmm, yep. It's a holdover from the drilling rig days. Some things just stay with you no matter the industry.

- Andrew