Subject: Unimat-3 questions (follow-up)

From: [email-masked] (David Robinson)
Date: 27 Jan 1996 23:07:50 GMT

Thanks to all those who responded to my previous Unimat-3 questions.

Based partly on your advice, I've ordered the EMCO vertical milling
setup and the P.M. Research #3 steam engine kit.  The steam engine is on
back order, which is probably just as well; I had better have more
practice before attacking it.

For now, I plan to build a tailstock die holder as suggested by one
respondent.  Also, perhaps the "round the corner" toolpost described
in Tingey's Unimat book.  This nifty item allows the outside surface of
large, thin items (eg, a flywheel) to be reached with an ordinary
cutting tool bit.

Now, if I may, I would like to ask two new questions that have come up.
I certainly appreciate that people have taken the time to respond to my
previous post.

I ordered the milling table, but I would like to get a small vice.  The
tiny one offered by EMCO is $62, which seems very high.  It would seem
better to mount the vice directly to the cross slide w/o the milling
table - this is how the EMCO vice mounts - but the cross slide is only
about 2" wide with a single T-slot parallel to the lathe beds.  I've
looked at vices in catalogs (eg, Palmgren) that seem pretty nice, and
are about half the cost of the EMCO.  The problem is that I can't tell
if these will mount to my cross slide.  Unless the vice is very narrow,
I would have to put countersunk bolts through the main part of the vice
(between the jaws), rather than through protruding mounting ears.  Any
advice (no pun intended) on small vices that can be mounted "through the
middle?"

Does anyone have the original owner's manual for the Unimat-3?
Strangely enough, mine came with a Unimat-SL manual.  EMCO offers
something titled "Operating and Spare Parts Manual" for $14.  Is this
manual worth while?

Once again, thanks for your help!

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Dave Robinson
Quincy University
1800 College Ave.
Quincy, IL 62301

[email-masked]
(217) 228-5496
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From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Dalton Jr)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:34:57 GMT

I have edelstaal" Miniature Machining Techniques" a general
handbook and operators manual. copyright 1971.  If this is what
you need let me know,

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Eric W. Dalton Jr. Science Department  Fauquier High School 
705 Waterloo Road   Warrenton Va. 22186   540 364 6100