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  1. cuslog

    Small Machine Screw Tapping Issue

    One more thought; I read some ones comment regarding tap alignment a few years ago. "one of the most common contributing factors to tap breakage is mis-alignment." Anything you can do to "guide" the tap, ie; keep it perfectly aligned with the long axis of the hole reduces the chance of breakage...
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    Small Machine Screw Tapping Issue

    One of the greatest eye opening experiences for me in the machining world was when I finally got my hands on a quality tap. Yes, they are expensive but they are so much better and the chance of breaking one is so much less. My favorites (so far) are Emuge (I've bought them from Thomas skinner in...
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    Knee mill X- axis power feed repair ?

    Any one here with experience taking one of these apart ? Its on a "Modern Tool" bridgeport clone - about 10 years old. Everything works (mostly) except the variable speed control is kind of "funky" at the slower settings as it gets warm. Cold, the slower settings work but after a few cycles they...
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    Quiet air compressor ?

    220V is no problem, may actually be preferred as the existing one is wired 220V @20 amp circuit right beside the unit. Kind of needs to be a "smallish" horizontal as the current one is "stashed" under one end of my work bench. I don't use a lot of air although it has gone up lately as I've been...
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    Quiet air compressor ?

    Yes, just watched a couple videos re: mufflers for air compressors - I might just try that, probably cheaper than a new one !
  6. cuslog

    Quiet air compressor ?

    Or contradiction in terms ? I've got an old Craftsman horizontal that has served me well but it seems to be getting louder. Starting to think about a new one, youtube shows some quieter ones. Any one got a horizontal one they like ? Don't need a big one, don't have space for a big one. TIA
  7. cuslog

    Tools, bits, cutters, When they break Who's fault is it?

    Usually my fault for one reason or another but you know, cutting steel especially, is not easy on cutting tools and cutting tools are consumables. Sometimes we "consume" them faster than others - I think a lot of the time, it comes down to rigidity (or lack thereof). I sometimes shake my head at...
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    Pumping cutting oil with a coolant pump?

    Brent, no worries, thanks for your thought. Actually, I do have one of those (not the cool Mist) but I do have to question whether air / mist would clear the chips - it would go on at the muzzle and the reamer is ~ 27" down the hole.
  9. cuslog

    Pumping cutting oil with a coolant pump?

    Thanks for the input guys. Crawling through my junk piles, I see I do have a (I think) centrifugal coolant pump I somehow acquired - sitting loose, out in the open. Think I'll try to jury-rig it up and see if it'll move some 20 wt cutting oil. If not, I do have 2 or 3 gear pumps I could try. I...
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    Pumping cutting oil with a coolant pump?

    Application is reaming a rifle barrel chamber. Many that do this more than just occasionally have gone to a muzzle flush system where cutting oil is pumped in at the muzzle end (not high pressure, not high volume) to flush chips out the back end. Traditional way was to ream .050 or .100", pull...
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