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- Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Fly Cutter Build
- Replies: 6
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Re: Fly Cutter Build
Harold and Bill-- Harold , thank you for the invaluable tips and guidance! Regarding my decision on undersizing the shank diameter . . . I mic'ed several 3/4" and 5/8" shanks on end mills. They all appeared to be half a thousandths undersized. (Maybe my mic is off that much.) So I was shoo...
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4160
Re: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
All-- Thanks for all the help! I went with Plan X. Last night I logged into McMaster-Carr and looked at sticky tape. To be brief, the list wasn't brief. Most of it was foam-backed. I was thinking that was not what I wanted. I am sure some selections were what I wanted, but none of the descriptions s...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mitutoyo Digital Caliper
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4237
Mitutoyo Digital Caliper
All--
My almost-no-name digital caliper served me faithfully for well over a decade. It bit the dust. I suspect cutting fluid killed it. I like to use a digital caliper for roughing in. For closer work I use manual mics.
I replaced it with this Mitutoyo.
I like it so far.
--Bill
My almost-no-name digital caliper served me faithfully for well over a decade. It bit the dust. I suspect cutting fluid killed it. I like to use a digital caliper for roughing in. For closer work I use manual mics.
I replaced it with this Mitutoyo.
I like it so far.
--Bill
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4160
Re: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
Harold-- Re: " I'm at a loss to understand why you might want to use the plate, but I'm open to your thoughts. " Not a good idea on my part. Thanks for the sanity check. The piece with face milling marks is a piece that I face milled rather inexpertly years ago. I am going to use it as the...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Fly Cutter Build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1409
Re: Fly Cutter Build
(continued from above) First, I center-drilled my workpiece so I could use a live center in the tailstock for extra support. Then I started making chips. They were blue. I switched from Viper’s Venom cutting fluid to Rustlick cutting and tapping fluid. It seemed to work just as well and produced a l...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Fly Cutter Build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1409
Fly Cutter Build
All— I needed a fly cutter better than the one I had, which holds the bit at a 45* angle. I don’t like it. I started off wanting to build it from 12L14, thinking I had a 3” diameter chunk of that material laying around. It turned out to be an inch. But, I found a 2.25” diameter piece of 1018. I deci...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4160
Re: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
Bill and Harold-- I like both ideas. Thank you very much! Regarding the sticky tape approach: Why not clean a flat piece of material sufficiently larger than my workpiece, then bolt it to the mill table and then sticky tape the workpiece to it? The surface of my workpiece has a face mill finish now....
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help holding thin material for fly cutting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4160
Help holding thin material for fly cutting
All-- I've got a little piece of 3/8" x 4" x 5" aluminum that I need to hold for fly cutting. It has been chamfered, top and bottom on all four sides, so I only have 1/4" thickness to hold. My attempts to hold it in the Kurt so far have been less than optimal as when I tighten th...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need help shimming head
- Replies: 3
- Views: 967
Re: Need help shimming head
Bill and All-- FALSE ALARM!!! I made an amateurish mistake. I'll explain . . . When I moved the machinery to its new home, I took pains to tram the head of the mill to the table. I got it to about 0" in the x axis and less than .001" in the y-axis. So, that made me happy. The other day, I ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need help shimming head
- Replies: 3
- Views: 967
Need help shimming head
All-- [ALL IS GOOD NOW. I RECOVERED FROM MY STUPIDITY, as you can read in the following post.] My mill is nodding off. I have a Grizzly 3616 (Bill S. caught the error in model number) vertical mill. I can spin the head horizontally and vertically. Except to tram the head to the table in the x-axis, ...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CAD Software -- free
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4162
Re: CAD Software -- free
Russell--
Thank you for all that! I will check out Fusion while I lose the green color of my envy concerning your skill!
--Bill
Thank you for all that! I will check out Fusion while I lose the green color of my envy concerning your skill!
--Bill
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help Identify Tool Chests
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2136
Re: Help Identify Tool Chests
Tom-- I certainly did not think ill of you! Thank you for the help. The process you describe above is far, far beyond my abilities. I strained a bit making the simple cover for the box shown in the photo. However, it was faithful to the original, simple cover. I take a lot of pictures with my phone ...