I build my own weight bolts on a 11 x36 Logan lathe which sets unused in the pro shop room of my PH when I am doing counterman time. I stick a length of all thread in the spindle...face it off...bring up the tailstock... drill and tap 10/32 thd... back off tailstock... mount vertical dremel with cut off blade and grind horizontal slot across the face of the allthread. Works well and looks pretty but it takes to many manual passes to grind a deep enough slot for a screwdriver blade. Gotta be an easier/quicker way to machine this slot...saw blade style cutter or what...how do you do this...tell me somthing so simple , quick and pretty that I will really feel dumb. Thanks Ken Ken.
Weight bolt screw slot
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Google "slitting saw". These are commonly used in a mill to make, well, slits :thumbup:
In general you'd need an arbor for your spindle (MT3 ???), then a jig to hold the work on the carriage. Good luck and be careful, these saws can be a bit scary to use.
Dave
In general you'd need an arbor for your spindle (MT3 ???), then a jig to hold the work on the carriage. Good luck and be careful, these saws can be a bit scary to use.
Dave
I use a pneumatic die grinder
With a metal cutting fiber wheel for that task, as well as cutting glue slots in connecting bolts, and slots on the buried part of a joint pin for glue relief.
It buzzes through in seconds and if your hand is steady it cuts a nice slot for a good sized screwdriver. Just burnish on a wire wheel after cutting.
Harbor Fright sells a cuttoff saw or die grinder and disk cheap.
With a metal cutting fiber wheel for that task, as well as cutting glue slots in connecting bolts, and slots on the buried part of a joint pin for glue relief.
It buzzes through in seconds and if your hand is steady it cuts a nice slot for a good sized screwdriver. Just burnish on a wire wheel after cutting.
Harbor Fright sells a cuttoff saw or die grinder and disk cheap.
