A friend and fellow Guild member fell soft and offered to have a go at 3D printing my 29 hole division plate.

It turned out really well with all the indexing holes fitting perfectly and the main bore just requiring a little scraping with a 3 cornered scraper to enable it to ease onto the shaft.

Had I been quicker on the uptake I might have added the numbers to the STL file before sending it but it only occurred as I was fitting it to the Spin indexer.

For those that don’t know what a Spin Indexer is, this is mine fitted with the 29 hole division plate.

The eagle eyed will note that the label says ‘5C’ 5C is the type of collet what these indexers come equipped to accept as standard. I don’t have any 5C collets nor am I likely to make use of any so when I saw the Spin Indexer offered at a discount price already fitted with a 5C to ER32 collet adapter I decided that I could make wider use of ER32 collets so I bought the indexer and a set of ER32 collets. Since then, I have added an ER32 collet chuck for my lathe so now I can use the ER32 collets in both the lathe and spin indexer alongside my more often used ER25 collets

This means that I am now set up to have a go at cutting the 2 x 29 tooth gears that I need for the Shogun gearboxes. I am still doing carer duties and Chris doesn’t have her stitches out until next Wednesday. So it will probably be later next week before I take the plunge and have a go.