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    10 little things we hate about the internet.

    No folks, really! I've seen him work! If someone nailed his other foot to the floor, he would at least have a sense of direction! LOL! :P In a more serious tone, I have found very often while searching for addball stuff that ZI know, more or less, the function of, but not the name, will search...
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    Make the same size tool post for both, thin off the tool holders, or simply offset the tool slot (the cutting forces are NOT huge!) that will be assigned to live with the lower mounting lathe, so the adjusters will allow you to work on either side of center height.
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    One thing that I found across the board, was that drill breakthrough was when most of the really bad things happened. Having a sacrificial block of a similar material, under the workpiece, almost always helped! It keeps a load on the rest of the drill cutting surfaces, rather than reaching that...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    <sigh> LOL! We tried! :) Gonna suggest, aside from the option to use a carbide concrete drill with a little judicious sharpening work being done to it, you could do worse things than to read up on the Cole Drill, and how and why it works where a lot of other machines won't. Basically very slow...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Honestly, I really figure that most of the guys here could do a lot worse than to download the free copy of the catalog, and have a browse through it to see what ideas and solutions pop up as you see what is out there! They stock tubing, pipe, raw materials of known alloy and provenance, sheet...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    LOL! Geez man, you sound like some of the apprentices I had, that were sure if they looked in enough drawers, long enough, they would find the tool that made everything easier, instead of just practicing! :P Spent long enough in Southern Ontario, and have enough bad memories of it, that Ontario...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    A bit late to the party, but I have bought a lot of specialty hardware and some tooling from Aircraft Spruce and Specialty. EG AN nuts.. https://www.aircraftspruce.ca/catalog/hapages/an818.php Under $4 each, in Aluminum. You can download their whole catalog, if that is more your browsing...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    If you have a carbide grinding wheel (usually green) save the munged up end mills. You can freehand grind a workable edge on them, and use them for plunge cuts when dealing with stuff like sheared off bolts down in holes and the like. I would bet that a diamond disk on a dremel could work too...
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    Thanks! Had seen the 111 videos, long after I made mine, but am not bothered with trying to chase every person I see, across a dozen different social media platforms.
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    6" Pratt Burnerd 3-jaw chuck - $100 Victoria

    Yeah, well... You had other things on yer mind of late! Can't ALWAYS keep all the fingers, on all the pulses! :)
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