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    Milling Question

    Anyone know what is a reasonable expectation for parallelism on a milled surface? Try as I might, I can't get down as close as I would hope. Typically it is in the range of 0.005". over about 6". I know nothing is perfect... but that seems a bit big. I have trammed the head of my Hartford 8...
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    Milling vise work stop "Doubleboost Style".... kinda

    Here is my milling vise mounted work stop. Overall pretty happy, but the brass seems to be quite slippery on the rod. The rod fitted to the vise is an M8 internal hex fastener with the head turned down. The rest of the rods are left overs from a shift rod kit for buddy's old car... his...
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    Mini-fly cutter

    I have been working with my big fly-cutter for surfacing (does a great job!) but then I wanted to make a "small" radius (1" or so) in a project. After much mucking about I made a nice little flycutter that was incorrectly milled... the cutter would not be on the center of roation. Probably...
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    Canada Day Sale - Fowler Tool Canada

    FYI - measuring tools etc. I have dealt with these folks before and they are good to work with. http://ftctools.com/canada-day-sale Brad.
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    Projects

    Here is a finished flycutter I made early this year... it is based on a design from Hemmingway. A similar design is sold commercially. The cutter holder is the 90° half of a double ended Busybee boring bar. The boring bar holder is machined from some awful gummy hot rolled round stock that I...
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