Turret setting

[skyboltone]

Mouser stock number.

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDet ... OkWw%3d%3d

These are a cheap but handy little turret. They are difficult to set because when you put enough pressure on them to bell the underside on 1/8" board they will bend every time.

So get one of these. http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Attachments ... px?pid=407

Use your 3/32" drill bit to remove the threads from the end of the mandrel. Throw away the screw and the rubber drum. You have to wiggle the 3/32 bit JUST A TEENY BIT while drilling to allow clearance for the head of the turret.

This makes the PERFECT setting tool for the topside of the board. You'll still need the pointy bolt on the bottom. Take a 1/2" piece of rod or bolt, chuck it into your battery drill, hold it at an angle up next to the grinder to make the basic point. Polish using ever finder sandpaper using the same process. Big washers and a nut hold into the center hold of the drill press.

The best sets I've ever had with turrets.

[Phil_S]

That's way cool, Dan.

[bnwitt]

Is this just a problem with the 1502-4? I use the 1540-4 and don't have problems with the turrets deforming. Are the 1502-4 turrets thinner?

[Bob-I]

I use the tool from Doug Hoffman

[img:153:181]http://www.hoffmanamps.com/MyStore/cata ... gtool2.jpg[/img]

There are full instructions on his site. You'll need a drill press, I bought one at Harbor freight for $50 and it works fine. The throat isn't deep enough for drilling some chassis though.

[skyboltone]

Is this just a problem with the 1502-4? I use the 1540-4 and don't have problems with the turrets deforming. Are the 1502-4 turrets thinner?

Yeah, the 1502 is thinner. $16/100 so I thought I'd give them a try but I could not set them with my regular eyelet set up.

[gahult]

Here is what I use. Hoffman turrets, they are #1540-4 i believe as they have the through hole and .093 dia.
Please excuse the focus, I haven't mastered the digital closeup aspect.

Gary

[Structo]

Is that a Shop Smith?

Man I haven't seen one of those in years.

[gahult]

Yes, it's an old one I bought and never used. Tried to sell it in a yard sale last summer but, no takers. Now it's a staker. Now that's funny, don't care who ya are.
$250.00 was what I paid and wanted. Makes it an expensive over kill for staking but, what the heck I found a use for it.

Gary

[drew]

I have a theory that there are really only about a dozen Shop Smiths on earth; they just change hands endlessly at garage sales etc.

I use the Hoffman tools, but instead of mounting them in a drill press (which I don't have), I just screw each one into a T-nut, then use a vise (the T-nut flanges maintain perpendicularity to the vise jaws) to apply the pressure. I have to do it one turret at a time, and it's a bit slow and laborious, but it's fine if you're not trying to mass-produce boards.

[skyboltone]

I have a theory that there are really only about a dozen Shop Smiths on earth; they just change hands endlessly at garage sales etc.

Possibly true. I see them at the county fairs now and then, being demonstrated by the guy that does the sham-wah commercials. He usually is fiddleing around with little pieces of picture frame molding and making baseball bats out of 4" x 4" chunks of pitch pine.

Can't remember if he's ever sold one

[drz400]

Mouser stock number.

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDet ... OkWw%3d%3d

These are a cheap but handy little turret. They are difficult to set because when you put enough pressure on them to bell the underside on 1/8" board they will bend every time.

So get one of these. http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Attachments ... px?pid=407

Use your 3/32" drill bit to remove the threads from the end of the mandrel. Throw away the screw and the rubber drum. You have to wiggle the 3/32 bit JUST A TEENY BIT while drilling to allow clearance for the head of the turret.

This makes the PERFECT setting tool for the topside of the board. You'll still need the pointy bolt on the bottom. Take a 1/2" piece of rod or bolt, chuck it into your battery drill, hold it at an angle up next to the grinder to make the basic point. Polish using ever finder sandpaper using the same process. Big washers and a nut hold into the center hold of the drill press.

The best sets I've ever had with turrets.

What is wrong with the staking tool they sell?

[skyboltone]

Mouser stock number.

http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDet ... OkWw%3d%3d

These are a cheap but handy little turret. They are difficult to set because when you put enough pressure on them to bell the underside on 1/8" board they will bend every time.

So get one of these. http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Attachments ... px?pid=407

Use your 3/32" drill bit to remove the threads from the end of the mandrel. Throw away the screw and the rubber drum. You have to wiggle the 3/32 bit JUST A TEENY BIT while drilling to allow clearance for the head of the turret.

This makes the PERFECT setting tool for the topside of the board. You'll still need the pointy bolt on the bottom. Take a 1/2" piece of rod or bolt, chuck it into your battery drill, hold it at an angle up next to the grinder to make the basic point. Polish using ever finder sandpaper using the same process. Big washers and a nut hold into the center hold of the drill press.

The best sets I've ever had with turrets.

What is wrong with the staking tool they sell?

I didn't have one on hand last Sunday afternoon. And, my solution is cheaper. I staked 3 express boards in 15 minutes with my setup. Some of us like to develop personal solutions to public problems. If a commercial setting tool is to your likeing, by all means get one.