Duplicating Flat Steel Keys - Foley Belsaw 200 Adjustment & Operation Instructions

DUplICAtINg FlAt stEEl KEYs

Next, change the guide. See Figure j. Pull out the pin, shown at j-1, to release the spring. Pull the guide j-2
straight out and remove the spring. In the parts bag there is another guide for the flat steel keys. Slip the spring
on this guide and install it the same as the other guide. Put the pin back in to hold the spring.
Figure j
Clamp the two adjustment keys in the vises and raise the carriage to touch the cutter. See Figure K. Point K-1
shows the cutter touching the adjustment key. If the cutter does NOT touch the key, turn the micrometer to
the RIGHT SLOWLY until the key just touches the cutter. If the cutter touches the key and the right hand key
does NOT touch the guide, turn the micrometer to the LEFT SLOWLY until both touch as shown in Figure K.
Now, rotate the cutter slowly by hand. If it scrapes the key hard, turn the micrometer forward slowly until it
just scrapes the key. Next, read the micrometer setting. It may be almost the same as the other cutter or it may
be several thousandths low or high. Remember, each small mark on the barrel represents one thousandths of an
inch.
Record this reading. It may be five or ten thousandths, either low or high. In the future, anytime you change
from the file cutter to the slotting cutter, all you have to do is to change the micrometer setting to the reading
you recorded and you are ready to duplicate flat steel keys.
Figure K
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