Will I need carbide cutters and coolant or can I get buy on HSS
tooling alone? I have a nice big chunk I want to machine into an
anvil. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Sorry, Roy. HSS won't touch fruit cake. Fact is, even carbide has a tough
time with it. You'd be best served by applying diamond tools, but the
very best thing to do with it is to send it to someone you flat don't like.
Fashioning an anvil would be one of few useful applications, but do you
really want to spend the balance of your life screwing around with it, when
you can go to Harbor Freight and purchase one made of steel?
Yeah, I realize it won't hold up as well as the fruit cake, but you'll at
least live long enough to get some use from it, unlike the fruit cake model.
The way I see it, you'll spend no less than the next twenty years wearing it
down enough to resemble an anvil. Won't have much time left by then, and
likely not much interest, either.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' with it.
Harold
Ooooh! I'll eat the swarf! You have to pick out the aluminum and steel
chips first, please.
I must be the only one in the world that likes fruit cake...
Peter
I (many years ago) worked part time as a baker. I cooked millions of
cookies, one Christmas the master baker made a VERY large batch of fruit
bread, she asked me to remove it when it was done. Well after "baking (I was
18)" I kept checking when this was done, after MANY hours of "baking" I
decided it was time to go out and "bake some more with the guys" well the
next day at work I was realy GRILLED about the BRICKS I had made. I no
longer "bake"
Soak it in rum for 6 weeks and the HSS might work. I live about 60 miles
from Claxton, GA where they used to make about 40% of the fruitcake sold in
North America. They got in financial trouble a few years back because their
product was being recycled from one Christmas to the next and their market
dried up. The key to a mass market product is to make it self obsolescent
or consumable. Fruit cake never becomes obsolete and is seldom consumed.
Many years ago the guy who now owns the company that makes Jessada router
bits ran the US branch of CMT. He sent out Italian fruit cakes for
Christmas one year. Absolutely the best baked goods I ever tasted!
Suggest CO2 coolant bath - and Sapphire tipped cutting tools.
Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Roy wrote:
Actually I buy them myself - but only from the real place in Texas.
These others are likely left over from another period in time.
Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Peter Grey wrote:
Actually..so do I. The last one I got, I took out to the Walker Turner
bandsaw, and cut into neat 3/8" slices, then picked out a good book
and pigged out on fruit cake and milk.
Gunner
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner
I would say that they got their just desserts.
Upon reading of fruitcakes, I went upstairs and had some made by a
friend of my wife. The friend uses a recipe she got from a broker of
Italian descent. This seems to be the key.
Joe Gwinn
Yeah, a strange tradition that came with my wife. Small bits of gum drops
in place of candied fruit. I'd never seen it before.
My mother made a killer good fruit cake-----heavy, moist, very
tasty-----based on a spice cake, and made with candied fruit. Then
along came gum drops. I've never viewed fruit cake the same way since.
Harold
It's not an accident. When conditions for life are proper, it's
spontaneous. Science has proven it to more than my satisfaction by the
large number of mass extinctions throughout the existence of the planet
Earth, followed by repopulation by different life forms, better suited to
existing conditions.
You do read, don't you? You've surely read about natural selection, or
survival of the fittest? You know------------ Darwin! The guy that did
the extensive studies that enlightened humans and got them away from tired
old tales of how we came about, none of which hold water.
Oh, but it should! I don't think it's a good idea to teach fairytales as
fact.
Harold
Ah, he probably just hasn't updated his sig file to reflect that
court decision in PA, Harold. I'm sure he wouldn't want it to be
so badly out of line with the scientific, and *legal* realities.
I read that court's decision BTW. I think it was probably issued
on asbestos paper! Those poor foolish ID folks. Given the lying
they did, they're probably going to be on the hook for all the
court fees and all the lawyer fees as well.
Jim
These are to kill for. Real nuts, Real fruit.
I bought a large one for work one year - I was the Engineering Manager -
what did I know - by lunch it was gone. I think it was a 7 pound size.
The President - a Greek - bought them the next year.
Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Gunner Asch wrote:
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