Took the gap out again , had this shower plate on the Lathe, plumber set the shower in too deep , so by machining
out the centre hole he managed to fit the plate ! Nice chrome finish on the plate so wrapped it in masking tape and set to it
Resulting in a 235mm extension. Finally we get to some machining! Needing to extend the clamping rod as well, I found a suitable piece of 8mm bar and threaded the end 5mm. Then cleaned up and drilled and tapped the original rod, having to make a plug for the spindle and use low rpm as there was a lot of stick out:
Blending in the join:
Then cutting a new circlip groove:
Finally resulting in something that can clamp a 4ft sheet:
In attempt to fool myself that I do actually use my milling machine I’ve been fannying around making some clamps.
I rigged up the horizontal arbor to speed things up a little. Doing so has reminded me that when I’ve used it before I’ve usually ended up with an odd finish at the end of the cut. Can anyone tell me what causes this? Is it just the chips packing up at the end?