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I just bought the 13B even though I'm okay with the Drill Dr. Now this is the old version of the DD when they only had one model. Not bad for $40usd and I've been using it for 8yrs.

John, do you think that modifying the Vevor 13b to sharpen end mills is doable? I think most of us would be in the market to either buy one or try to make one ourselves if there were plans.

So I tried a 2 flute end mill first to see if it was an artifact of the roughing bit, nope, still tilting to the left. I cut a section cam rocker rod I had left over from a BMW engine rebuild and mounted it in the spindle. Pulled out my new toy from the auction a few weeks back, a cylindrical...

KBC has it in stock, https://www.kbctools.ca/products/search/?Keyword=Dykem%20blue

Will do. I didn't use my dial indicator to test, just set it using a square. I'll do it properly and report back. Not using the vice, work piece is fastened to the table itself.

You know, I might not have. But if the knee was tipping forward why would the slope of the cut be towards the left in the X plane?

I think they call that a rattle can restoration.

I'm removing a lot of metal a little bit at a time on the mill using a 5/8" roughing end mill with rpms at about 700 On the X axis the surface is smooth and can feel no difference between passes, on the Y axis there are ridges between passes almost like the cutter is digging in on the left hand...

The Drill Doctor got its following not from the cheesy new version that he shows in the video but from this older version that they produced for many years. A great little machine, now I have never sharpened a 135* drill on it so I can't speak to that. The older version was made out of that...

I work outside 9 months of the year and I love it, hate to think what my mental heath would be like if I was in a office. :eek: