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Just a FYI: A few Years ago I bought a MT3 reamer for just that purpose. IIRC, it wasn't all that bad for price (just in case you didn't know they existed).

No longer free for hobbyists ?

Been to a few Black Powder "shoots" where they have had "Cannon Shoots". Everything from little golf ball cannons on up to full scale field guns shooting soup cans filled with concrete. Probably some bigger that I haven't seen. Some beautifully built guns too - lots of polished brass, solid Oak...

I like to think of it as: "Drop the hammer without disturbing the sights" and then "follow through". Seen quite a few people spend a fair chunk of $ trying to get better by buying high end equipment before they learned how to "drop the hammer without ..... Lots of us have been guilty of that...

Got a follow-up email from the ebay seller I dealt with. He told me that "Bell Machinery" in Vancouver is a dealer for them. I have no idea whether it would be cheaper to go with Ebay or Bell Machinery.

Follow-up, contacted "Sino-SD" ebay seller. Guy was quite helpful and seemed genuinely "keen" to be sure that I was ordering the right stuff ( I already had a "B series" Multifix set but wanted to add 3 more tool holders). Several messages back and forth, finally sent photos of what I had, from...

Makes me cringe to see that table treated that way. :(

4140 HTSR (heat treated, stress relieved) is pretty common, bigger suppliers usually have stock, not too bad for price. 28~32 Rockwell, machines quite nicely. Big league metal supply places will normally supply mill certs. - though its also common that you've gotta buy a full bar - 17 ~ 24'...

Son worked several years for a major oil field C0., built their own drill rigs etc. They used to buy offshore pumps, blow off preventers etc. Job one was to strip them apart, re-bore all the bores and replace all bearings. Major castings / forgings were what they really bought them for, most of...

Well, I'll try Create Tool again. I had tried to order from them (several times) about a year ago. There was a thread on Practical Machinist (about a year ago) saying that the founder of Create Tool had died and the Company was no longer functioning. Their web site still functions though - I'll...