David P Best: Original Carriage Stop - Cast Iron
David P Best: Original Carriage Stop - Requires Tools to Move
David P Best: Time to build a new proximity stop for the lathe.
David P Best: Block of Delrin plastic for prototyping a new carriage stop
David P Best: Prototyping the concept from plastic first.
David P Best: Squaring up Delrin for prototype of new Micro-Adjust Carriage Stop
David P Best: Machining prototype
David P Best: Prototyping a NEW micro-adjust carriage stop
David P Best: V-Groove detailing
David P Best: More detailing
David P Best: Prototyping a cam-actulated locking shaft
David P Best: Prototype of eccentric cam locking mechanism
David P Best: How the cam locking thing works in the micro-adjust stop block
David P Best: It works - crude, but a good test - now on to refinement
David P Best: Time to move beyond the Delrin plastic prototype
David P Best: Drawing of concept after prototyping with Delrin plastic
David P Best: Cutting the slot in the micro adjust shaft
David P Best: Machining the slot in the micro-adjust shaft
David P Best: After machining the slot, next step is threading
David P Best: Threading the micro adjust shaft - 1/2-40 thread
David P Best: Sketch of the micro-adjust shaft and the articulating knurled knob
David P Best: Turning and knurling the adjustment knob
David P Best: After boring the knob and threading for locking screw
David P Best: After machining of micro adjust shaft and knob.
David P Best: Making the eccentric cam locking lever shaft
David P Best: Test fit of Kipp locking lever
David P Best: Eccentric shaft
David P Best: Next step was to machine the eccentric cam-lock shaft
David P Best: Turning the brass bushing for the cam-operated locking shaft.
David P Best: Brass Bushing