YES. I was not pleased with the finish on the 1 inch bar. My bottle of JAX is getting contaminated from reuse. I guess I should be discarding it after every use. If I get some new I'll sand of the old and do it over.Ahh.... So that's what you needed the Jax for
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Most bluing/blackening solutions don’t like being contaminated and specifically state this (surprised that JAX instructions don’t mention this). I always pour a little of the solution into a small cup, use it out of the cup and discard whatever is left when the work is done.
No commercial parts involved. I started with some cold rolled steel and machined the end to 1/2 the thickness and rotated it in the vise to get the flat portion parallel to the mill table. The pocket was milled with a 1/8 inch end mill. I set the angles by rotating the milling vise. For the bars that go in the Boring head I rotated the vise 30 degrees one way and the 30 the opposite. For the boring bar I used 25 and 35 degrees to create some nose clearance. If I were to do it again I would use 25 and 35 for all of them. The reinforcing block has a dowel pin in the center hole of the boring head. Cutting the pockets for trigon inserts might be a bigger challenge. CHEERS!
