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    Tool Amazing Vise

    lol, hadn't that about that movie in years .....
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    Mods, I forgot I was in the classifieds and got carried with the content, no feelings hurt if you want to delete it.
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    PS, if its for a dovertail (vs boxway) you'll need to tip the head over. Easily done but creates another problem if grinding - you need a angle dresser and even then that means you can't traverse the work so end up with not the best grind, i.e. no traversing to spark out.. You got me digging...
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    Makes sense now, thanks for explaining. I've milled the angle before by setting up with mill vices and gauge blocks, but concede the length here makes it tough and super accurate milling (machine tool bearing fits) over that length is dicey to the say the least. Mill is to a thou (on a perfect...
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    Tips/Techniques Need help surface grinding a tapered cross slide gib (Okanagan)

    What am I missing here? The parallel surfaces don't need any special finish, they don't do anything (and .400 is a huge amount to grind.) It's the opposing tapered surfaces that are in contact. Is this just hogging off material to make a bigger gib fit? Cast iron? I've milled and scraped...
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    OTTAWA Area - Flat Taper in Mild Steel Plate

    3mm? I'd be thinking sine mag chuck and blanchard grinder? I'm out lol
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    Series on reconditioning a Schaublin 70 lathe

    You guys have seen this project before, but I'm trying to stitch it together as a series of videos detailing the steps to recondition it Part I, the bed
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    Benchtop Hobbing Machine - The BHM

    Fantastic project, thanks for posting it! I've castings for a Jacobs hobber aging under the bench, but like what you done with this - the versatility etc. Amazing if you can get it to do bevels gears as well
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    Lathe test bar

    imo too long and skinny, but i'll come in very handy for making cutters :). Almost anything can make a blank but be aware that stuff like drill rod is neither round or straight - it's centreless ground. It could still work, but you need turn it, not rely on its existing surface. Agree...
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    Tool Needing a press

    Another vote for no press needed. Interference fits change the internal geometry, so precision installations have light interference fits. When I did my XLO, pullers and mallets got it apart and it went together with a hot plate (bearing warmed up) and the retaining nuts. Even if you get a...
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