{"id":2399,"date":"2012-07-28T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2012-07-29T07:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T13:44:20","slug":"pd400-tail-post-clamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"PD400 Tail Post Clamp"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I purchased the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.com\/#control-handles\/=ilzjbw\" target=\"_blank\"> adjustable control handle and bolt<\/a> more than a year ago when I was rebuilding a <a href=\"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=1264\" target=\"_blank\">camera head mount<\/a> for my daughter. In fact I bought several with the proper bolt size for this application. I was going to experiment a little.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the third picture, the original Proxxon PD400\u00a0design uses a simple socket hex head bolt for use with a large hex wrench. Of course the wrench can fall out of the socket and is always\u00a0difficult\u00a0to find when you need it.<\/p>\n<p>The handle shown was a bit too &#8220;fat&#8221; to just replace the bolt. So today I did a bit of minor grinding of the tail post to provide clearance for the &#8220;fat&#8221; part of the handle. About 15 minutes work with a Dremel type tool and the handle fits perfectly. I can&#8217;t even see the grinding area.<\/p>\n<p>The handle is spring loaded so the position can be easily adjusted by just pulling up on the handle and\u00a0re-positioning.<\/p>\n<p>It works so wonderful I can&#8217;t imagine why Proxxon didn&#8217;t do this as a standard assembly. Actually, I can&#8217;t understand why I waited so long to make this simple modification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased the adjustable control handle and bolt more than a year ago when I was rebuilding a camera head mount for my daughter. In fact I bought several with the proper bolt size for this application. I was going to experiment a little. As you can see in the third picture, the original Proxxon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[107,133],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metalwork","tag-lathe","tag-pd400"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}