Recent content by jgimp69

I've tried them all (mostly) over the years but always go back to Walter. Yes they cost more but last significantly longer than PAuto or Amazon stuff, they blend nicer and use better abrasives. Same with zip cuts but I recently bought 2 boxes of Klingspor zip cuts that I'm pleasantly...

I'm also talking the vise itself. I usually lightly stone both the vise bottom and table, wipe clean and lightly oil. I then clamp the vise down and tram the edge so it's square, but also the bottom of the vise jaws to make sure it's not off kilter. Off by a few thou or two and errors can...

End mills can easily walk out of R8 collets especially with heavy cuts. The flutes "pull them out" of the collet, and can actually pull the workpeice up out of the vise as well, as has happened to me plenty of times. There are threaded endmills that lock into specific holders (weldon shank) and...

Haha, It sounds like Yoda was writing the instructions

Princess auto gear motor maybe? DC drive off a potentiometer would be the cats ass

End of February we are usually still knee to waist deep in snow.

Hey, looking for a sine plate in the 8-12" range, a few various sizes of angle plates and V blocks. I'm located in mid-western ontario/walkerton area but I'm willing to travel (just hopefully not to the guts of Toronto) PM me if you are wanting to clear some space.

They have had this stuff on here for what seems like years.

So I recently got a Colchester Master running. I found that when the lathe is on (motor and pump running, chuck not engaged), the chuck spins until I hit the brakes a few times. The chuck also continues to spin when I hit the carriage lever to neutral after some cuts. One would assume the...

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A couple of buddies bought a sawmill a few years back. It was cutting all sorts of wonky. I went out and found the blade guides all worn and the one guide mounting arm was bent. I threw an indicator on the base and ran the head/blade over and found .100 of change from the front of the teeth...

It was a fun project. Lucky for me there was no time crunch so that helped. Just getting the machining sequence figured out and the taper cut with the threads in one setup was the tricky part. Alot of steel to remove though. Getting it roughed down to size took a bit of time.

Finally got back to working ont the backing plate. I machined up a tapered arbor and machined a slot for my 3/8 keyway broach. She was pretty tall so had to use my hydraulic press as it wouldn't fit in the arbor press. Alot of pumping to get it cut and alot of shims to get the depth needed...

Yeah, I’ve seen those anti chatter bars. I’ve thought about getting one, especially in the smaller size, but the price is hard to swallow. In the past, I have tried slowing the speed and feed right down and using HSS on a bar, I just don’t have one anymore. They are cheap enough and I really...

Different places on the boring bar. Magnet on the opposite end of the insert sometimes works.