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- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Milling depth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5055
Re: Milling depth
If your goal was to clean a thread, I think the geometry of the tool is not optimal. Rather than cutting what looks like a slot (keyway) it should look more like a flute with no metal in front of the edge doing the cleaning. End mills prefer to cut on one side throwing off the chips rather than cutt...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Favorite Places to Shop In Your Area
- Topic: New Jersey: Cook Tool & Machine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29361
Re: New Jersey: Cook Tool & Machine
Sure 4140 in the annealed state can be pretty delicate and easily bruised.They said that USPS didn't meet their standards.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: How is it possible?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 686
Re: How is it possible?
So it was not a mirage, I like to see the mechanism. I suppose a collet grabs with just enough force to cut and a second collet behind is capable to hold tighter, rotate and push out the stock.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: How is it possible?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 686
How is it possible?
I do not know if it is real or an optical illusion but on some turning videos look like the stock protrude from the chuck/collet as it is spinning and cutting.
How can that be?
How can that be?
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1940
Re: Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
My ex wife is well aware of the effort to righthand a lefty. Abused and belittled without getting into "social belief" you can imagine which group of "enlightened, progressive" thinkers were running education back then.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1940
Re: Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
I am right handed and would appreciate a left handed caliper for easy reading on the lathe.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1940
Left handed lathe, for lack of a better name
I was watching U-tube and noticed more than a few lathes built with the headstock on the right.
Is that something that was done sometime for some reason?
Is that something that was done sometime for some reason?
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: I am a human electric cell
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
Re: I am a human electric cell
Can't say. I drink cold from stainless steel. I drink hot from ceramic cups. It just happens to be the way I do.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: I am a human electric cell
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
I am a human electric cell
Sometime I get a truly small sliver on metal in my finger, so small I do not even feel it. My all around drinking glass is a double walled stainless steel tumbler. When I grab it with my hand I immediately feel the spot where the sliver is. Is like an electrical sensation similar to when you place y...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Advice On Buying A Wiggler and Centre Finder 5 Piece Set.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16795
Re: Advice On Buying A Wiggler and Centre Finder 5 Piece Set.
I am sure I am missing something but what is the point of using a wiggler on a drill press? Usually one drills on a drill press when a center punch is adequate to start the hole. Possibly start into the punch with a small drill. If location is important then one drill on the mill and use the edge fi...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: Home Shop CNC & 3D Printing
- Topic: Aquarium Air Pump for chip clearing?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78209
Re: Aquarium Air Pump for chip clearing?
You mean blowing the chip away from the cut? Aquarium pumps have hardly the output to blow bubbles I doubt can do anything about the chips. Perhaps if you are cutting wood.
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: Casting & Foundry Work
- Topic: Casting a straight edge
- Replies: 32
- Views: 39979
Re: Casting a straight edge
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