Hello all,
I have an old smallish English lathe that I use for hobby stuff. (11"
throw.. 51/2" cntr height)
The lathe regularly handles 3/8" cuts in free turning steel (silver
steel). I use ccmt insert tooling, and I have some tpmg tooling as
well, all in 3/4" tool holders.
I started a little project this afternoon, turning down a 2 1/4" chunk
of 1045 steel. I want to make a tailstock mounted (mt2) die holder out
of it. I can only take very light cuts with the tooling that I have,
and I guess it will take the best part of a day to make up the die
holder, which I was hoping could be reduced, as I don't have that much
free time to scape away at a job like this at the moment.
Does anyone have any tips for machining this hard stuff, that they
would be willing to share?
Thanks very much. :-)
Steve
- posted
15 years ago