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    making "spherical" surfaces with a boring head (?)

    so I'm trying to repair the Kopp variator in my lathe. basically it's a continuously variable transmission using two drive cones with balls in between them. changing the axis of rotation of the balls changes the ratio between the two drive cones. the variator has worked OK for the whole time...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    I find the indexing feature of the multifix kinda useless... it's kind of a work around for not having enough holders for a dedicated tool. IMO it's nicer to have more holders and dedicated tools for each op, and it's not so expensive/hard to buy/make dovetail type holders typically. that said...
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    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    here's a fun little historical artifact: a dial test indicator made by Last Minute Mfg. Co. of St. Catharines, Ontario (not too far from where I sit typing this). The dial is graduated in half thous and the name is vaguely reminiscent of the starrett "last word" indicators of the same type...
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    Wtb schaublin 135 or 150

    wowowowow that's a big number. surprising to me since the only two big schaublins I've seen on kijiji were listed for what I thought were not insane prices and both took months to sell (a 160 in quebec for 7500$ in feb of 2024 and a 135 in ontario for 5000$ in 2023)... I guess the kicker is...
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    oh yeah that would be smart like this was made with basically no planning
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    oh wow I never thought of making one out of vise grips, that's way less work lol I wouldn't make the body longer (seems like a waste of material?), I'd bolt a block on the bottom so I don't have to hold it in a vise like this. but clearly I haven't done this because I'm lazy
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    just thought I'd show off this bead roller I made in 2022 out of stuff I had in my junk bins. I used it to roll beads on aluminum tubing for an intercooler I was putting in my LJ78 landcruiser. front view isometric ish top view the body is made of aluminum and the wheels are made of...
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    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    you know what, I don't remember if I measured this... I just figured since I machined the chuck face with the backplate mounted up it would be basically 0 unfortunately can't access the bolt heads with mounted to the spindle but maybe I will play with it a bit. I did try clocking the chuck to...
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    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    D1-4 backplate – or how to spend over 12 hours with thousands of dollars of machinery to save one hundred and thirty dollars One of the reasons my lathe was kind of cheap was that when I bought it, none of the tooling it came with was immediately useful. There was a (partially complete) set...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    we have a huge multifix (C?) on a big tos (sn50?) at work and we got more toolholders from pewe tools in germany, just off their website. wasn't cheap but the quality is fine. I am fairly certain these are made in china though. for what it's worth I have a multifix aa set from aliexpress that I...
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