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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.

I tried that, magnets as well

Im the common denominator lol. The outer diameter and facing went great. Threading, beautifully. When I started using the cross slide with boring bar (Dorian MWLNR), I just could not get it to stop chattering. Tried different speeds and feeds, changed inserts, slight adjustments on the tool...

Was asked to machine up a backing plate for a buddies Clausing lathe so he could mount a 3 jaw on it (It only came with a 4 jaw). Rough machined the plate to about 0.050” over, then cut the tapered bore after tramming the compound slide and finished with the threads. Wasn’t happy with the...

I’m still looking for a hinged sine plate if you come across one lol

I traded some stuff with this guy. Nice guy, great little shop just jammed full. Could have spent all day just shooting the shit checking stuff out.