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Originally Posted by Espeefan
Great progress! I take it your mill is CNC? I don't see a rotary indexing table in the photo, taken during the undercutting picture or hole drilling process.
How hard was it to set up your gear mesh? I'm kind of curious how you went about it. Looks like you took some measurements off the granite table and adjusted the shims under the gear till the mesh was perfect. Then bored the holes in the gearbox to get it right on.
I like how you share photos of the machining process. Helps newbies, like me, learn some new things.
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Yes my mill is CNC. The gear setup I guess I just got lucky so far from the measurements taken from the granite plate . It seemed to be OK the first time around. I don't have the ring bolted to that aluminum spacer yet so there is slight wobble but it is fit really close to the shim on a counterbore. The spacer will also get a set screw in it to lock the works to the 3/16'' axle. I was going to get it all together , test it then add ball bearings on everything but my hole tolerances are pretty good and the shafts all fit in no more than +.0005-.001'' clearance. I hope the original wheels and rims will work out. As of now they wobble pretty bad on the hub. I still need to drill the rims to match the 16 holes in the hubs. Hopefully when I tighten the lugs, the two rim halves will true themselves better. I don't know how it will all work because there's air space between the halves.