Subject: I am soooooooooo excited!

From: [email-masked] (Paradox)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:47:57 GMT

Somehow... not quite sure how, I convinced my wife that owning a small
milling machine would reduce the amount of time I spend in front of my
'puter... :) she bought it!

Soooo... guess what I'm getting for Christmas :))))))))

Yup... I brand spankin new Sherline Milling machine :) the 'Deluxe
Package' to be specific.

Thus my question:

I already have a Taig lathe and 'at least one of evertything' to go
with it (literally). How much of this will be useful on the milling
machine?

Are the drawbars/collets equivelent?
I know the spindle thread is the same
Is the Taig fly cutter usable on the Sherline?
'T' bolts?
Boring head and bar?

Thanks muchly in advance for any advice you all can give me.

Steve
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein & Nicholas Carter)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:26:14 GMT

>'puter... :) she bought it!
Very Lucky, I also was able to con (I mean ask) my wife for one...

>Are the drawbars/collets equivelent?
no
>Is the Taig fly cutter usable on the Sherline?
I'm sure, if it threads onto the spindle (I made my own out of a blank arbor)
>'T' bolts?
No, and this is where the taig is better than sherline, you have to turn down 
10-32 square nuts to fit the sherline t-slots, I made a arbor to hold the nuts 
for this.
>Boring head and bar?
If it screws on, it works...
>Thanks muchly in advance for any advice you all can give me.
start learning how to align  the work with the indicator!
also, you may want to buy a palmgren vise for the mill...

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From: Tony Midea <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:42:23 -0800

> Thanks muchly in advance for any advice you all can give me.

I need to know this guys secret..
Tony
:-)

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From: [email-masked] (Paradox)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:20:52 GMT

>> Soooo... guess what I'm getting for Christmas :))))))))
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>I need to know this guys secret..

Simple, really...
I use to spend a LOT  of time doing ACTUAL work on my 'puter and quite
a bit of time in IRCand she always hated that medium... it was sorta
like I was hangin out with a bunch of friends and she wasn't
inincluded.

She was tickled pink when our new house was built and I started
getting excited about having my shop/studio back (after 6 years and 6
relocations - during which I had no access to my shop/studio.

Almost anything I ask for  regarding my shop is OK by her now... she
feels she has the artist/husband back that she married in the first
place :)))

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From: "Les Whitaker" <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Dec 1996 19:30:28 GMT

Sigh...
Les 'animal-powered lathe" Whitaker

Tony Midea <[email-masked]> wrote in article <[email-masked]>...

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From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 16 Dec 96 03:15:33 MST

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Paradox) writes:
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|>Thus my question:
|>
|>I already have a Taig lathe and 'at least one of evertything' to go
|>with it (literally). How much of this will be useful on the milling
|>machine?
|> ...
|>I know the spindle thread is the same

Wrong, sort of.  From the FAQ:

    * It has been reported that although the Taig and Sherline use a 3/4-16
    spindle thread, the threads on Taig chucks and faceplates are recessed
    far enough that a Sherline lathe will only grab about 1.5 threads, not
    enough to be usable.  However, one reader bored out the back of a
    Taig faceplate to 1 inch diameter for about 1/4 inch depth, and reports it
    threads on his Sherline quite well now.  So, be careful if purchasing
    a Taig accessory for use on a Sherline lathe!

I don't know if this mod in turn makes the faceplate useless on a Taig.  So,
don't expect them to directly interchange.

Jim

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From: [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein & Nicholas Carter)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:09:49 GMT

>don't expect them to directly interchange.
This may be the case, and at first it worried me, but I haven't had any 
problems with the lack of thread engagement. It is an easy enough matter to 
turn down the Taig accessories though. The recess doesn't seem to be used for 
alignment on the Taig anyway, so you could probably thread the Taig spindle to 
the shoulder, for interchangeability with the sherline. I haven't done this 
though and until an endmill holder flies off into my face at 2000 rpm, I 
won't...