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  1. Stellrammer

    Tool I Feel Old

    Those have a place in my tool box, they are relatively accurate. A good way to perform sequential tightening of cylinder heads and such, until the last bit, then the calibrated wrench comes out. I recently bought a 1/4 in drive one, needed 9-15 inch lbs to check a Ford 9 inch after assembly. I...
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    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    I missed the part about you have a 10” X 50” table and 5 hp machine. Vertical Knee Mill? Does it have enough speed range to run small carbide endmills? I see you bought cermet inserts TPMT style, turning or milling application? They aren’t very strong in a chip breaker pressed insert, more for...
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    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Not much more to tell, it was bad tasting tea. You took whatever your buddies could toss through the window. That was encouraged because it kept expenses down for the local sheriff’s office.
  4. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    I had a fellow inmate in a jail cell in Jamaica make tea with a plastic bag and a plastic coke bottle. He rolled up the bag real tight, lite it on fire like a wick, put water in the bottle and held it over the fire. As long as there was water the plastic bottle didn’t melt. It wasn’t very good...
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    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    As the adage goes” If you are not confused, you don’t have enough information “. Unrelated , Mario Andretti, “ if everything is under control, you’re not going fast enough”.
  6. Stellrammer

    Colchester 2ooo Engine Lathe $1,500 Southampton Ont.

    It’s the hidden unknowns that get you. Misaligned headstock, other bearings and their respective carried components, even a well seasoned bed casting is going to shift when not stored level after so many years. A fine machine for an I’ll take a chance price though.
  7. Stellrammer

    ever had one of those nights?

    This is a pretty impressive thread drift.
  8. Stellrammer

    ever had one of those nights?

    For my own personal taste, I would concur. I have 3 or 4 of those, they just don’t make a good espresso, for a regular stronger than normal coffee okay but hard to get a balanced flavor. The grind has to be too coarse to get a good extraction, the solubility is way down and a weakened sour kind...
  9. Stellrammer

    ever had one of those nights?

    I’ve pretty much settled on Smithwicks these days, can’t get a reliably good Newcastle, Bass, forget about it. For the few I do have anymore I don’t bother refrigerating it either, 65 degrees from the root cellar.
  10. Stellrammer

    Non-square tool blank--Shaper?

    That brings up some memories, IIRC it was considered an alternative when carbide could not be used for some tooling. The local Tool & Cutter grinding shop did not like working with it, they charged a premium as they used different abrasives for it, and was slow going. Considered pretty exotic...
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