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    First crash

    That is the idea. Only needs to be tight enough to hold it in place when there is no cutting load. When cutting, the load on the tool will cause it to flex a wee bit and will grip the support solidly. I would bet that if you biased to holder on the tool post with hand pressure, when you clamped...
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    The Faller Came Early

    Have a cousin who is a Faller, and another associate who is working on a Fallers certificate. Learned a LOT from both of them, but still figure I am a rank amateur. I can make a tree fall more or less at least, where I want it, but that comes nowhere near, to the mad skills of the folks that can...
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    Found this little gem - Schuchardt & Schuette Gear Hobbing Machine

    Yeah. I kinda want one, but understand that I don't 'need' one! FWIW, that feels... strange... LOL!
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    Spitfire needs work

    I dunno that the Logbook, was actually used for much other than who the pilot was, and how many hours it flew. At that time. Not sure how they traced the Maintenance Records. I spent a significant amount of my working life in AMCRO. Aircraft Maintenance Control and Records Office. We tracked...
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    First crash

    Picture a framing square. Long end of said square is in the tool post/aka:the actual blade of the parting tool.. Short end points down at the deck of yer cross slide, but gets cut off where it meets. What you are going to make, is the short end. Vertical from under the parting tool, down to...
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    First crash

    Parting is almost worse than thread cutting for getting people's faces in knots. The solution, really, is to practice until it becomes just another habit. If using inverted tools, you run those upside down, on the back side of the work, often on a second tool post. Handy when you need to make a...
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    Anyone using ChatGTP?

    Oh Mothers of Gods! How come in my imagination, I see the mother of all life-sucking, Soul-draining offspring of the voice-mail hell 'AI" "Assistants, that so many of the large companies have before you can actually talk to a live human? I spent enough of my life correcting Aircraft...
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    Found this little gem - Schuchardt & Schuette Gear Hobbing Machine

    Read much about the process, mostly related to a couple hobby tabletop sized hobbing machines that were published in Model Engineer over the last century or so of their output. Lots of fractional maths involved, most that I was not so very interested in, that I actually followed through the...
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    Spitfire needs work

    Yeah, have read several reports over the years of guys spending large fortunes, and LOTS of time, seeking out war years and post war years training crash sites, to recover that plate. Almost exactly like firearms, the bit with the actual serial number on it "IS" under the Law, the actual thing...
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    Found this little gem - Schuchardt & Schuette Gear Hobbing Machine

    Cool catch! cheap, I hope! What did you get for gears with it? Those will really define what you can produce, if even enough to start making your own gear sets for cutting other gears. Have seen, in more recent times, guys 3D printing gears to use to cut metal ones, with some success, so that...
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