A simple tool for setting accurate angles on your milling machine head.

[Hill Top Machine Works]

[Toolmaker51]

re at 3:33: "Lathe foul", directing complaints of general clamping hardened tooling with hardened jaws, might be same folks regularly bearing down on taps in a drill chuck, worse yet key-less.

I like the idea, magnetic bar to hold angle blocks, magnets according to blocks on hand. Also says 5" spacing, matching common sine bar rolls, is logical. With long enough spigot (he turned .625) will clear end of spindle nose and housing.

Only 2 issues apparent.
1] Take care to avoid potential compound error, not being plumb. A couple small pins in face of bar would correct the Y direction
2] Tom's (Hill Top Machine Works) Abene mill swivels the head. Those sacrifice very little daylight swiveled, still loads of Y axis left. Anything straight spindle eats far more, needing to retract ram in regaining Y axis travel. So, angle block sets being equal length, makes a short bar advantageous.

Those magnets are more than strong enough to work upside down too, where a shorter surface gauge can reach. Troweling off the epoxy, seals pockets from filling with real hard to remove chips.

[Jon]

Thanks Hill Top Machine Works! We've added your Mill Head Angle Setting Tool to our Angle Guides and Try Squares category,
as well as to your builder page: Hill Top Machine Works's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Mill Head Angle Setting Tool by Hill Top Machine Works

tags: angle, measurement