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  1. 1018Machine

    Something I would never do in my shop.

    Fak that! I put too much much time and pride in maintaining my equipment to have some shmuck break them! Let alone the added wear!
  2. 1018Machine

    Garbage Steel

    Can't speak from experience on carbon steel but I can regarding buying off shore aluminum alloys! It's fine for working with but don't try to anodize it, all kinds of problems occur. Once I learned that I only buy Kaiser!
  3. 1018Machine

    How to hold this part...

    This ^ I also think you are adding unnecessary work, which IMO will complicate things adding lots of potential for inaccuracies. I think back boring would be best. What is the intended use for ? Something specific or general use?
  4. 1018Machine

    External Jaws for a 3 jaw

    I did this with one of my 5" 3 jaw chucks! Sent the jaws in to be annealed then machined them, tapped and ready, sent them back in for hardening. They are of course dedicated to soft jaws.
  5. 1018Machine

    rotary table and the number of slots

    That's sweet Arbutus!
  6. 1018Machine

    rotary table and the number of slots

    Nice job Susquatch! I would have did the same but I wanted the encoder as flat as possible to stay out of the way. Good to know about the hijack stuff too :D
  7. 1018Machine

    rotary table and the number of slots

    As promised, here's my mounting idea! Nothing fancy just some 1018 plain carbon steel machined to fit the application. Sorry for the hijack @Hruul.....
  8. 1018Machine

    CA-ON Jewelers rolling mill

    Hey Stuart, Thanks for the offer. I might take you up on that, I live a couple hours from you. I'm still a ways out from refining my gold and I was starting to think I'd make one but maybe now I won't. I'll reach out when I get closer to that point. Thank you
  9. 1018Machine

    rotary table and the number of slots

    I'll snap a pic of it when I head out to the shop. It's a four axis model from DRO PROS, I used Z as the quill and U for the knee.
  10. 1018Machine

    rotary table and the number of slots

    Sure! :D I primarily make centerpin fishing reels so that rotab gets used allot. Heres' an example
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