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Sometimes A Single Job Cost More In Tooling Than Materials or Machine Time

Sometimes a single job has significant tool costs. This is not the only tool bought just for this one job. This reamer...

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Use A Less Common Size

When I bought the SB1028F knee mill I bought a modest set of end mill holders and a fairly decent set of fractional inc...

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New "Glass"

I picked up a sheet of polycarbonate a while back to replace the windows in one of my milling machine enclosures. I kno...

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Thanks guidance mechanical etc. - preoccupied lime mortar'ing

Thanks everyone for entertaining my posts about welding, generators and offgrid electric power, etc., etc. I have come...

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If You Sweep Up Every Day - DO NOT READ THIS

If you sweep up every day you certainly won't appreciate this. I normally sweep up around the mill every week or two, b...

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vise bending brake

My 30" 3-in-1 combo machine can bend 22ga steel but not the 18ga that matches the 1mm thickness of the rusted car area....

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muratlanne

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Thinks I Have to Remind Myself

HSS is better in stainless than carbide. M42 is way better than M2. Use as wide of a parting blade as your lathe can pu...

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Deep Drilling Aluminum

Richard, I realize this may be to late to help, but a 3 flute drill will deflect a lot less, and short of a gun drill m...

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user16941

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The mill is back online

Finished it up about an hour ago , now waiting on some JB Weld on the Y axis DRO scale stationary mount to cure . My bi...

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Snag_one

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Tomorrow is Nuts day !

Specifically a couple of 3/8-24 nuts for tensioning the anti-backlash springs on my rebuilt/modified X axis leadscrew n...

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Snag_one

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off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator?

Somethign you folk from North America will be familiar with. There is a 12V light, fridge and occasional inverter to ma...

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CBN Conical Point

I recently went through some iterations making a wire bending tool for a customer. I sheared some stainless dowel pins...

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cam grinding -

I am working on my Briggs and Stratton Flyer project - now at the "motorwheel" stage. 5HP flathead 6:1 "winch engine" d...

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clare

10 3mos clare

A question of clearance

The last piece for my milling machine repair arrived yesterday ... in a ridiculously large box . So this afternoon I'll...

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Snag_one

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Boy was I pissed !

FedEx does it again . Got the packages today to fix my mill . Only thing is the bag with the bronze bar was empty (I mi...

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