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  1. K

    6MM Brass Ball Oilers

    I think I have a bag of them that I had plans for, but haven't got there yet. If I can find them I could probably part with a couple, not sure what size they are though. Edit: I found the order, they were 10mm. They're inexpensive enough I'd just order a bag of 20 if I were you. Credit cards...
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    Lathe slotting attachment

    It more or less has to be a single point operation, so it has to generally be a broach or shaping operation. There are 90 degree heads that can be put inside a bore with a small rotating cutter to accomplish a keyway but you'd need a very large bore before you could use something like that...
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    Electric Motor Drive for compound

    Unless I'm not seeing it right, this is compound feed which pretty much no machines have as far as I'm aware.. It'd make cutting angles using the compound a lot more consistent which is what I'd want to use it for. I've considered making an air attachment to do this before but this makes a lot...
  4. K

    Electric Motor Drive for compound

    Looks pretty good - any chance you can throw a video up on YouTube using it?
  5. K

    Source for Metric Steel Rod ?

    Blackfoot Industrial sells drill rod.
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    SAE HEX BALL END 'L WRENCH' SET

    Those are wiha, I was talking about wera.. I know kms carries wera, I think quest Industrial as well as Calgary fasteners carries them too. If I remember right I ended up with something like that as part of a Mastercraft set too. Kms has cheaper pricing than I could find anywhere, even online...
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    SAE HEX BALL END 'L WRENCH' SET

    I'm not sure what you're needing it for, my experience with ball end ones is they don't take much abuse. I've got the typical ratchet style ones and they break often. Look at some good quality bondhus or wera ones, they probably make more or less what you're looking for and they're made well...
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    New machine day

    To revive an old thread - I bought a new surface grinder! It's a very nice 10x20 ish 3 axis power fed machine. I've only gotten it into the shop and hooked everything up to make sure there are not issues that need to be resolved before trying to find a more permanent location for it. I did a...
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    Source of Lathe oils and lubes?

    I just bought the 5gal pails. It's not the best thing but I'm not worried about running out, I'm sure you could get 4 others to go in with you to get a jug and split it up. If I recall the vactra 2 and dte46 (for the gear head on my previous lathe) was about 200 for a 5gal of each from mobil1.
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    Gibbs? Mill table adjustments

    You're supposed to check the play at the end of the travels when you do the adjusting. But you are more or less on the right track. Someone does a good YouTube video on gib adjustments, I can't recall who it is though. Probably MrPete222
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