Recent content by Susquatch

Around here, I've only ever heard pound salt. The Windsor Salt mines are only an hour away though.

That sounds strange. I've heard tail stock barrel bores are not normally hardened?

I'd take that bet in a heart beat. Except for abuse, it's hard to imagine a situation where they wouldn't outlast a drill bit of the same size.

If I understand how mine works, the screw is referenced to the taper attachment so the attachment has to be set at zero to get regular use of the cross slide. In use, the taper attachment moves the cross slide according to its position along its length and the cross-slide screw moves it back and...

I use both. I frequently grind my own HSS trepanning tools. But I'd rather use an annular cutter if I have one the size I need. Not always successfully.... I just made one a week ago that bombed big time! LOL!

Actually, @140mower has a good thought. What happens if you make your browser window narrower or wider? Sometimes that will move subordinate screens.

Over to @Jwest7788 on this. Not sure that's possible though. It MUST BE on the home page for it to work. On my phone, it's at the very bottom so it doesn't bother me at all. Besides, I almost never visit the home page.

Being in the US, you would not use it and it wouldn't help us anyway. I'd just ignore the link if I were you.

The design for the one for my lathe is permanently attached in use. No need to disconnect. If you want I could send you what I have on it.

They might be related or have a common history..... Cutting a hole in the head with a saw wouldn't be very friendly to the brain underneath. So they probably scraped or carved the piece of skull away. That's essentially how the metal process works.

Still do. It's that or wood! @Janger is a pro on both platforms.

D Didn't have those yet when I was in highschool...... The good looking girls were easier back then anyway.

In years long gone by, I kept a 426 hemi piston on my desk....... They were simply BEAUTIFUL!

This is why I'll NEVER make my own. I just watch the ads. Someday, someone close by will be selling.

For those without indicators or gauge blocks, here is another way to set a compound angle for cutting tapers. If your hand wheels have reliable graduations, you can use them to measure the sides of the triangle. The carriage movement can be read directly to get the length of the adjacent leg...