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  1. little ol' e

    Arbor-Spindle best practice for cleaning before installation

    I use type A fine scotch brite with mineral spirits. Good time to check the draw bar and spindle out as @Susquatch mentions.
  2. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    Well, we bottled the wild turkey up, let set until it reached 101 proof then got into er'
  3. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    For the past several years it comes out in the summer, sits up at the trailer. Goes out for the odd run with the grand kids for ice cream and the odd cars and coffee meets.
  4. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    Years later after a wild turkey decided to fly into the windshield
  5. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    The wife found some old pictures . Full street trim back in the day... no drive shaft safety loops, roll cages, nothing. Brake test, burn out box and go... In 15 min... we would pull the drivers seat out, throw the racing bucket in, add helmet with an on board fire extinguisher and we were good...
  6. little ol' e

    Shop Old school stuff

    Yep, Initially it was Depo-cam then switched to Machining strategist. All geared to high speed milling, hard milling and very user friendly back then. They were the first to come out with linking passes for high speed milling, that eliminated the point to point line stepovers into an arc. Since...
  7. little ol' e

    Minimum grip on stock while in vise?

    Sure, Material is C1018 that doesn't need to see the surface grinder. If I try to machine the 3d profile over the top in a smile type shape, going down to about .02 off vice jaws through the middle 2 blocks, the blocks will have a tendency to move. These blocks will be installed in assembly...
  8. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    Yep, that's a 73..
  9. little ol' e

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    I know not many took to the colonnade years from 73-77 but they are certainly creeping up in several places. Can't see the rear bumper... Was that a 73 w/455? Hope I didn't open a can of worms here when questioning what rear gear @slow-poke was running up to the heavens. Although, there was...
  10. little ol' e

    Minimum grip on stock while in vise?

    I have some 3d to run over these 4 blocks. I've got about 1/4" in the vice. This material is just 1018 for soft tooling try outs. I use emery paper alot when doing this type of machining with multiple blocks. Toe clamping on a fixture plate just wouldn't work in this case. Hope it helps some...
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