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  1. Tom Kitta

    Tool Tools to set angle on compound fairly accurately?

    Yeah but the problem is the super strange angles that seem to be used.
  2. Tom Kitta

    Tool Tools to set angle on compound fairly accurately?

    It is very easy and quick to check the angle this way - on the DRO you see one leg of the triangle, on the indicator you see the other leg. Now using basic math you can get the angle precisely. But to set the angle you may need to do it few times. Each time getting more precise. This comes in...
  3. Tom Kitta

    Annular cutter in Mill

    You can get them even cheaper from Amazon - even Amazon US. Main issue is sharpening them is far more work than a drill bit.
  4. Tom Kitta

    Myford ML7 Resurrection - A New Summer Project

    Stuff other then the lathe looks like is worth $300. Several oilers Spindle bearing oil cups I got these off aliexpress - you can get nice brass ones.
  5. Tom Kitta

    Milling machine: Albrecht chucks, Silver and Deming etc.

    Albrecht type overtightens large drill bits and than makes it fun challenge to remove the drill bit. There is a reason why they don't make them big - largest is like 5/8 / 16mm or so. Do not use Silver & Deming in them or you are up for an adventure. I am strictly Jacobs shop and I do use...
  6. Tom Kitta

    Parting is such sweet sorrow

    I did that... all went well for under a minute - nice cut... then ... boom. I guess feed to high ;)
  7. Tom Kitta

    Little Giant trip hammer on BCauction

    Yeah these things are NOT cheap. Over 5K with fees!
  8. Tom Kitta

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    I tried few times but I only managed to damage the drill bit - so I need to watch some videos. Some of the drills I have are like 50cm long 2" with 2" shank.
  9. Tom Kitta

    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    I have like 50 of these. Have not really figured out how to use them - need to see some videos. part of the problem is that shank is not MT and sometimes huge.
  10. Tom Kitta

    Little Giant trip hammer on BCauction

    Current price 2669.69 closes today. Item A258570 Links don't work as their system with open.dll is... well... pre-dynamic languages. Long time ago there was just static HTML and no way to display dynamic stuff. So people used Shell Scripts written in say C to generate dynamic HTML text...
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