The Home Machinist!

I have found that I am constantly switching back and forth between a rotary table and a vise. And I havent found any easy solution to the problem, aside from building a small table just next to the column of the mill- where I can easily crank the mill table up to it, matching height, and just slide...

people who talk like they know what they're doing, but have a clean desk or workbench scare me........

not too sure about the 'armadillo' thing........though that was the NOLA saying, "if it's moving, step on it and put it in the gumbo....."

i read that 'practical machinist' forum too. you can't say anything there w/o someone talking smack. don't get me wrong, i can run the smack w/the best, but sometimes it can get in the way.....i do appreciate the scholarly tone of this forum, it goes good for people like me that don't know their gen...

i dunno....when i make a pot of gumbo now, it definitely ain't for poor people. shrimp, oysters, crabs ain't cheap anymore. i usually get fish myself, so.......last one we made we put in alligator that my buddy hunts...now you're makin' me hungry......

i used to live in NOLA, and i forget?.....did you coona$$s have stone crabs? we dive for them on the fla. west coast around bridges and such. hard to beat a big stone crab claw.... but blue crab in a big pot of gumbo is also a beautiful thing.......always take a carton of cigs and some extra beer on...

there's a bunch of 60 deg. cutters on 'ebay'.....'ebay' is your endmill/cutting tool friend.....

thanks, harold.......great info here, as always.....

excellent info, harold, thanks.......this has bothered me since i first got my BP. my 'Z' comes up @.005 when i lock the knee. never measured it in contrast for the locked/unlocked for the 'Y'. i always thought that the knee was tilting forward when unlocked, then leveled when locked. and i've alway...

Rolling papers tend work too as they come in at 1mil~ or so consistantly, you just feed VERY slowly while pulling on the paper slightly and moving it back. when it tears/rips when you pull on it, you know your dead on :) plus they are about 1 cent a paper. sorry, but i ain't brave enough to hold a ...

i took apart an old feeler gauge, and use the .005 leaf. you can use a cut up beer can too.(and you get to drink the beer). put the cutting edge over a suitable location, then raise the knee till the tool just bites into the feeler gauge and you can slide it out. there's .005..... i do this w/the kn...

sorry, didn't mean to hi-jack the thead, but i think you guys know more about this metallurgy stuff than i do, and i ain't proud about asking questions, you dig? this gunsmith talked me into doing this caliber, and don't get me wrong, cause' it's was supposedly one of P.O. Ackley's favorites, and it...