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Free Metalworking Project Plans: A Simple Vise Clamp for an X2 Mini Mill

Friday, December 18th, 2009

I came across this project several months ago on Instructables.com and I thought it might make a good beginner milling project. The author, Doc Workingday graciously gave me permission to add his project to this site.

It’s a simple project for making a set of clamps that fit an X2 Mini Mill (Sieg / Harbor Freight / Grizzly) and these clamps would make a great first project for anyone who owns an X2 or similar sized mill.

The original instructable can be found here. However, for those of you who don’t have an instructables.com account, I’ve provided a PDF copy of the project instructions as well as the drawing below. Doc also provides SLDDRW and SLDPRT files of the drawing in his instructable for those of you with CAD capabilities.

Thanks again for letting me share this with my readers Doc!

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Free Metalworking Project Plans: A Burgeon-Style Gear Cutter for Clockmaking

Monday, May 11th, 2009
Material: Steel
Michel has designed a Burgeon-style gear cutting machine for making precision clock gears that uses an inexpensive Dremel tool. Here are the two machines side by side: The original Burgeon (which costs $7989.00) is on the left. Michel’s machine (which costs a lot less) is on the right.
If you’re a clockmaker (or have some other need for cutting precision gears) and you don’t want to spend $8K on a quality Burgeon, take a look at Michel’s detailed plans. FYI, the plans are in French (for example, the index plate pin is called a “pointeau”), but that shouldn’t prevent anyone from being able to read the dimensions (which are metric).
Here’s a translation (which I edited a bit for clarity) of what Michel had to say about his project:
“This is milling machine for clockmaking that I designed for use with a Dremel. This machine is based on a milling machine from the Bergeon company. The goal was not to duplicate the Bergeon design exactly, but rather to alter the design to allow for the use of a Dremel. A lightweight Dremel is easy to mount thus avoiding the need for a larger motor and pulley (like in the Burgeon design). On my site you will find photographs as well as the method of construction.
Also on my site there are other projects which might be of interest to your visitors: A quick change tool post that I designed which has proved to be very handy, as well as a stainless marking gauge, which was a very beautiful project to create.
-  Michel”
Thanks for sharing your plans Michel!
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Gears and Gear Cutting-Ivan R. Law
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ABC's of Gears and Gear Cutting INFO 1944 article
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CLAGGETT CLOCKMAKING/CLOCK LABEL PUBLICATION
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25 Old Books Watchmaking Clockmaking Clock Watch Making
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Free Metalworking Project Plans: A Marking Gage

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Material: Brass

This Brass Marking Gage is the 4th of 5 great projects from Ken.

Here’s what Ken has to say about this latest project:

“This next little project was a real test of my newly learned skills, and involves turning, milling, drilling, tapping, threading and knurling. All these operations were done on my Unimat 3 mini lathe/mill. Being a novice, if I can do it, so can you.

I chose brass for the body, mainly because of what material I had on hand, and when polished, would look the part.

The body and adjusting block were drilled out 10 dia in one piece, then parted off with a slitting saw. See earlier Slitting saw project.

I use this item to scribe lines a certain distance in from the edge of the work, or down the centre line. The scribed lines are used to locate hole centres, etc.

The thumb screws and adjustment wheel were knurled with my knurling tool, see earlier Knurling tool project. The diamond pattern was achieved by swinging the knurling around on the saddle.

I use my digital vernier to set the distance, then transfer this to the marking gauge. Fine adjustment is achieved by using the adjustment wheel.

I find this little gadget very handy, it’s almost too good to use. Might even be a usefull item for wood workers.”

- Ken

Ken originally posted these plans back in 2007 (along with 4 others) on the Metalworking section of Woodworking Australia’s Woodwork Forums. Here’s a link to Ken’s original Marking Gage post in the Metalworking section of the forum. Check back next week for Ken’s final project, a slightly different Joinery Marking Gage.

Thanks for sharing Ken!

If anyone has any questions about this, or any other project, please leave a comment. And as always, if you have any plans you’d like to share with the site, please submit your plans using the tab at the top of the page.

Thanks!

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STANLEY MARKING GAGE, NO 172, DUAL STALK, GOOD
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