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    Reamer Dreamer

    If straight shank and you have some way to grab it, yes. All of mine are Morse taper so no exactly tap handle friendly.
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    Reamer Dreamer

    This thread is a derivative of my indexable boring head thread from a week or so back. I had been trying to bore a hole with indexed bar, but had to use my old vertical dovetail mill - that is simply not rigid enough to effectively maintain sufficient accuracy. I deferred the project to...
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    Boring Head to AVOID

    I had to make some round holes in some 0.090" 5052 (to mount guitar pickups) and they were 2 very odd sizes, so figured I needed an indexable boring head to do so. When I searched almost all of the hits were some obviously Chinese junk for just over $100 Cdn from Amazon. I know they actually...
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    Vertical Band Saw

    I do now, thanks to you. Mine is a 1216U so probably the generation before these. Will try DoAll to see what I can find there. I got the saw off of my truck yesterday (was 2 man job as 10' tall sitting in truck and last stop on my roll up door to my storage shelter outside of shop is around...
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    Vertical Band Saw

    I bought this as a last minute from remembering it sitting in auction yard where I didn't/couldn't open it up and have a look-see. It has been in the -30 to -40 range until this past weekend, so it just sat on the truck with me waiting for a break in the weather. I was horrified when I had a...
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    Vertical Band Saw

    I think I will keep the mechanical VSD (note, did not mean electronic misnomer) as what I have seen in the -30 visit yesterday it seems pretty low use. The 550 comment is noteworthy as of course it will run just fine on 575-600. When you see a lower nameplate voltage it means you have higher...
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    Vertical Band Saw

    I have a pair of Marvel 8 saws that are in storage until I can build a larger shop. I keep a 7 x 10 horizontal that has served well for the last 40 years but for vertical work I have a chinese 4 x 6 that I leave mostly in vertical with tiny table that allows it to work horizontal as well. I...
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    Cheng Ki Coolant Reservoir

    I tried those many years ago, but started to think about how much of that oily chemical mist I could be inhaling and passed on it.
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    Cheng Ki Coolant Reservoir

    Thanks for the input. Exactly what I was looking for. I will stay with the remote tank/pumps/drains and I have to admit I seldom use coolant on lathe and when I do I long ago dumped my gravity flood system for a hand pump. The drawback on the new mill of using column would also be volume...
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    Cheng Ki Coolant Reservoir

    I bought a Cheng Ki Bridgeport clone that is about 50 years old. It came with a separate coolant tank and pump, but the base casting was clearly intended to collect runoff under the knew and store it inside column. There are no electrical fitting holes to bring power inside so assume the...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    Geez, missed this post when you put it up! Too many distractions right now (and then). Had a good discussion with Toews Power (Canadian distributor for American Rotary). I vaguely remember a rule of thumb to have motor/converter capacity of 2x the load - so 1 1/2 HP plus the feed and coolant...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    Here is the reply from one of my electronics/electrical resources (with a lot of VSD experience): "Motors should not be switched on and off with the power side of a VFD, only the control side. The reason is because when switching off, the arc on the switch contacts will backfeed high voltage...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    dragged it out to farm on a very low trailer frame so IF it comes in at right weight I can turn spreader bar upside down and use 2 shop cranes to pick it onto floor (only 9' under hooks). Wanted to weigh it but the keys to mobile crane were taken out of key drawer to make copies...but got lost...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    What is swaying me towards RPC is leaving the current wiring as is. There is one transformer that shares feed with the spindle motor and taps off control voltage and run power for the feed motor and coolant pump. I can easily rewire to accommodate a VFD on spindle circuit, but that means I...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    Have also been contemplating rotary phase converter. I had a 5HP for many years but had stopped using it so gave it away. No big tears as it was pretty crude and very unbalanced voltage on one leg.
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