I do a decent amount of work on my metal lathe, and I've been known to set my pants on fire while welding.
After a long Christmas & New Years, hiatus I started working on my shop benches again this week. On Sunday night everything was going well and I designed and built the alignment jig in about an hour. Monday night didn’t go as well. Part way through welding the first leg unit I ran out of wire. A quick look at the clock (11pm), and I knew I wasn’t getting any wire until the next day. Continue Reading…
For the final installment of wall charts, I have created this basic milling speeds chart.
Please note: I am not responsible for any personal injury to, or damages caused by an individual using the information listed on my website.
file: millingspeeds.pdf
Following the theme of my recent posts, I created two more PDF charts. I’m still working on a milling chart, but I probably won’t finish that until after the new year.
It took a little longer to make, but I finished up a lathe speed chart tonight. I set this chart up as an excel spreadsheet so you can customize it. The spreadsheet accepts two control parameters feed, & doc (see cells K1 & K2). Doc has 5 possible settings 1.0″, 0 .4″, 0 .2″, 0.1″, 0.04″. Feed allows for any value from 0.002″ – 0.038″.
Please note that at the higher feed settings some cells will display “N/A”. The data I pulled from the “Machinery’s Handbook” has a small range, thus I decided it was better to provide no speed when a calculated value fell out side the range. I also preformatted the spreadsheet for printing on 3 letter sized sheets of paper.
Please note: I am not responsible for any personal injury to, or damages caused by an individual using the information listed on my website.
If you’re agree to the above disclaimer the speedsheet can be download here: turningspeeds.xls 245kb
It’s been to cold for me to work in the shop, so I’ve been spending most of my free time on the computer. One of the projects I’ve been working on is wall charts for the shop. When working on projects, I’m forever running back into the house to look up a speed/feed, or the hole size for a given tap. Hopefully having clearly laid out charts will cut down on the number of trips inside.
I know I’m not the only one who suffers from this problem, so in the spirit of Christmas, I have uploaded some of the finished charts here in PDF format: