Hello All New here.
Hello All New here.
Hello to all the metal workers, I am new on here and not so new to metal working. Not good at it thou. Had a Bridgeport mill
i got 50 years ago. Was young and really dumb, wanted to cut a plate and just could not figure on how to hold it down and being in a hurry I thought I could hold it and mill it. WRONG... well after 55 stitches and two surgeries I wont do that again.
i got 50 years ago. Was young and really dumb, wanted to cut a plate and just could not figure on how to hold it down and being in a hurry I thought I could hold it and mill it. WRONG... well after 55 stitches and two surgeries I wont do that again.
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Hey dash9 ! Welcome to the Board! I'm very sorry for that serious injury but you will find that other things have/can happen with equal or worse consequences.
Anyway, glad you are here. You could probably spend a month just reading earlier posts. The search engine works fine for specific areas of interest.
Folks do like real time answers and fortunately, members still post them.
Anyway, glad you are here. You could probably spend a month just reading earlier posts. The search engine works fine for specific areas of interest.
Folks do like real time answers and fortunately, members still post them.
- SteveHGraham
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I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
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Indeed welcome, Dash9.
At one point, I thought I could hold a piece of brass plate while drilling a hole in it. Not a good idea, but didn't end up as badly as your experience.
Steve: Hopefully the mill wasn't running...
--earlgo
At one point, I thought I could hold a piece of brass plate while drilling a hole in it. Not a good idea, but didn't end up as badly as your experience.
Steve: Hopefully the mill wasn't running...
--earlgo
Before you do anything, you must do something else first. - Washington's principle.
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Anyone with the least bit of understanding should know that ears are best cleaned with a 1" HSS aluminum cutting end mill.SteveHGraham wrote:I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.
H
Wise people talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
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I think a unibit would work better.Harold_V wrote:Anyone with the least bit of understanding should know that ears are best cleaned with a 1" HSS aluminum cutting end mill.SteveHGraham wrote:I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.
H
Mr.Ron from South Mississippi
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This getting funny. I knew this older guy who was a serious crafts man and carpenter. During a conversation would whip out his truck keys and ream out his ears. I hadn't seen that before. When the truck started, it became eerie.
Like I said, he was serious but keen sense of humor.
Like I said, he was serious but keen sense of humor.
- SteveHGraham
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Harold can never resist showing off.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
- neanderman
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Who here hasn't, at least once, tried drilling a hole, freehand, in a sheet of something, only to have the bit 'grab', turning that previously innocuous bit of metal into a spinning, finger hungry, virtual knife blade?
Who, me? Nah...
Postscript: I do still have all my digits (knock wood...)
Who, me? Nah...
Postscript: I do still have all my digits (knock wood...)
Ed
LeBlond Dual Drive, 15x30
US-Burke Millrite MVI
Atlas 618
Files, snips and cold chisels
Proud denizen of the former "Machine Tool Capitol of the World"
LeBlond Dual Drive, 15x30
US-Burke Millrite MVI
Atlas 618
Files, snips and cold chisels
Proud denizen of the former "Machine Tool Capitol of the World"
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Heh! Steve's comment about me showing off. If that was my intent, I'd have suggested a 1½" rougher end mill. It is my opinion that, for Steve, the 1" end mill would be a good fit.
Holding things by hand to drill holes. Done it most of my life, and, for the most part, I have escaped without issue. However, I can certainly recall the time I was doing a home job (working at Sperry) having to open up a pre-drilled hole in a brass base plate for a model engine I was building.
Need I say more?
I will comment that I escaped serious injury, but drilling in brass without holding the item securely is a huge mistake!
H
Holding things by hand to drill holes. Done it most of my life, and, for the most part, I have escaped without issue. However, I can certainly recall the time I was doing a home job (working at Sperry) having to open up a pre-drilled hole in a brass base plate for a model engine I was building.
Need I say more?
I will comment that I escaped serious injury, but drilling in brass without holding the item securely is a huge mistake!
H
Wise people talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
- SteveHGraham
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Lately I've had good results with the blowgun.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
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Dash9:
Welcome. (again)
You've now met some of this Board's Main Characters.
You get the idea.
But they DO offer some of the best advice available, despite the ear-cleaning stuff.
Jump in and enjoy the Folks and Knowledge here. Priceless!
~RN
Welcome. (again)
You've now met some of this Board's Main Characters.
You get the idea.
But they DO offer some of the best advice available, despite the ear-cleaning stuff.
Jump in and enjoy the Folks and Knowledge here. Priceless!
~RN