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  1. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Well I didn’t shoot the Sheriff or his deputy.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. Stellrammer

    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...
  8. Stellrammer

    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.
  9. 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...
  10. Stellrammer

    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”.
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