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When machining a rear sight base or grip cap on a milling machine to an elliptical shape, do you have a preferred method ? A formula for your DRO ? A fixture on the manual machines ? Craftsman | ||
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A "one off"or a hundred? One off...eyeball...a hundred, enlist the services of a CNC | |||
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Well put Mr Weibe, I have been doing machinist work for over 50 years and still have not figured out how to mill and ellipse on a manual milling machine Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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A mill bastard file seems to work real well,,,, for one! | |||
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Thanks for your help guys. Eye ball or cnc was all I could come up with. So many times I find out I've been doing something the hard way when there's a much better way that I didn't know about. Craftsman | |||
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I've never had to do one. What about a cherry attachment & a rotary table. | |||
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Someone will correct me I am sure, but to my knowledge there is no way to machine an ellipse manually by the numbers. A tracer using a pattern, etc, sure. There may be an odd attachment somewhere, but I doubt it. Sounds like something Deckel would make. If you have the means of machining a radius, you can however machine a decently acceptable grip cap or similar, depending on what you have available. I made a few stock escutcheon and at least one grip cap manually. They were not great. They took several hours to make. Not worth the time or effort in my opinion. I don’t remember the dimensions, but as big of a radius as I could on the two long sides, tangent to a small radius on the ends. Nathaniel Myers Myers Arms LLC nathaniel@myersarms.com www.myersarms.com Follow us on Instagram and YouTube I buy Mauser actions, parts, micrometers, tools, calipers, etc. Specifically looking for pre-WWII Mauser tools. | |||
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The cadd sw I have gives two ways to make an elipse call ture and construction . Construction is 4 arcs. | |||
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Home Shop Machinist had an article several years ago about a fixture that would do this on a manual machine. There's a lot of ingenious setups that have been long forgotten since CNC became common and affordable. Dirt simple on a Prototrak just faking it like Rich says. Turn the ellipse into a chain of tangent arcs and just plug in the numbers. | |||
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I subscribed to that magazine for a number of years but I don't remember that article. I know there is a jig/fixture you can build to cut an ellipse in wood with a router but I don't think you could make that design work with a mill. I agree there are many ingenious set ups and designs from the past that have been forgotten or unknown by this generation. There are a series of three books on that subject "The Machinist's Bedside Reader" by Guy Lautard . My copies were printed around 1993 but I think they are still available. Craftsman | |||
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[URL= https://youtu.be/lP2qxxoHCSI ]video of turning oval[/URL] | |||
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I did not even consider turning one on the lathe, that would be a slick way to do it. Nathaniel Myers Myers Arms LLC nathaniel@myersarms.com www.myersarms.com Follow us on Instagram and YouTube I buy Mauser actions, parts, micrometers, tools, calipers, etc. Specifically looking for pre-WWII Mauser tools. | |||
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I've made a couple grip caps from round stock. Just cutting the stock on an angle gives you an ellipse. But you have to measure and figure for the loss of the over hanging ends. The 'longer' the oval, the greater the loss By the time all the sawing and filing was done. I figured I might as well just cut one out of flat stock the next time,,,which hasn't come along yet. Maybe with a powerhacksaw for those diagonal cuts it would've seemed like a better idea. At least I can I've been there! I think steel bar stock in oval shape(s) are sold, but you probably have to buy a ship load. | |||
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Precisely. (pun intended) Well said, that man! | |||
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