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  1. MrWhoopee

    Best Cutting Tools for Lathe Beginner

    I recently bought a 6mm R8 collet just for this purpose.
  2. MrWhoopee

    Best Cutting Tools for Lathe Beginner

    While we're on the subject of carbide, I've been buying these 8mm endmills (which fit in a 5/16 collet) by the handful. Sometimes you just need an endmill, size is not important. In multiples of 3 they are less than $4 each. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832710801758.html
  3. MrWhoopee

    Best Cutting Tools for Lathe Beginner

    I do sharpen my own drills, I had to learn how in school. Harry would take a 3/8 drill, knock the corners off, hand it to you and start his stopwatch. You had 2 minutes. Every time I place an order with McMaster I include a few stub length drills in the most common tap drill sizes. I'm getting...
  4. MrWhoopee

    Best Cutting Tools for Lathe Beginner

    For those considering purchasing some inserted tooling, a set like these is definitely a good start. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805344533110.html https://www.ebay.ca/itm/165722504046 I have purchase a LOT of this type of tooling, both off eBay and Aliexpress. They have all been good...
  5. MrWhoopee

    Best Cutting Tools for Lathe Beginner

    You're obviously looking at the name brand inserts. I have purchased 2 or 3 dozen packs of inserts off Aliexpress, never paid more than $1.25 (U.S.) per insert. The threading inserts I'm currently using are $.58 each. Just ordered 2 more packs...
  6. MrWhoopee

    Did my first self clearing of a import today - WIN

    And to think I was worried about derailing this thread.
  7. MrWhoopee

    Did my first self clearing of a import today - WIN

    The legacy of British bureaucracy lives on. In a previous life, Fred sent me to a machinery auction in Malaysia to buy a surface grinder. The auction was a bust, but I managed to spend several days collecting ferns in the jungle. Getting them out of the country was a nightmare, being shuffled...
  8. MrWhoopee

    BXA toolholders

    My experience has been that the raw material costs about as much as the finished toolholders (Chinese of course). Here are the last ones I purchased. Nothing wrong with them that I could tell. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155353196554
  9. MrWhoopee

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    I was also going to suggest 600 rpm, basically the speed you would run HSS in mild steel. I also prefer inserted cutters when size permits. Inserts are cheaper than carbide endmills. I don't like the APKT/APMT inserts as much as the SEKT/SEHT, but they do the job.
  10. MrWhoopee

    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    Ah, the taper attachment! The least used "must have", no lathe is complete without one. I've used mine for threading pipe, once.
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