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  1. Stellrammer

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    I’ve been too lazy to to do that, but I should, good to have some flat bottom ones that are free to roam about for those awkward shapes.
  2. Stellrammer

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    Those are ground inserts for aluminum, a very fine grain of carbide with low binder content, not really for steel. The H is by memory a ground tolerance designation, k is as pressed. K tolerance, as pressed chipbreaker, would utilize a coarser grain structure and higher binder(cobalt) content to...
  3. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Nothing as sordid as that, I paid the “tourist tax” to the wrong guy, the sheriff was just making a point. When the sailboat and crew returned to Negril from Montego they were sure to pay their respects to both parties.
  4. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Failure to report/ illegal entry, harbour master was a bit casual in logging entry.
  5. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Interesting the difference in 15-20 years of age makes when using Metric vs Imperial. I cannot casually use Metric, I’m constantly converting to and working in fractional. With having the US stubbornly refuse to use Metric we still have this bewildering blend, and using older machinery it is...
  6. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Well I didn’t shoot the Sheriff or his deputy.
  7. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Nope, Ontario, that’s a long trip for 85lbs, the vise is only $500. I took it new from the box 5 years ago, used it twice then sat on my spare mill and got shop worn from all the humidity changes.
  8. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Yeah, that round isn’t very practical. That is good speed on a machine that size, definitely capable of small diameter milling with carbide.
  9. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Pretty respectable brand. I wish I could flog this hydraulic monster, too big for my XLO. 85 lbs, ain’t shipping it too far.
  10. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Cermet will be just fine in a boring application , small radius and a very sharp edge, good choice. The rounds in a boring bar are not a good combination, you will get chatter and push off, too much surface contact. For boring to close tolerance on small depth the smaller the nose radius the...
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