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  1. Toolmaker51

    WTB Cast Iron Machine Pads

    Why castings? Fast 3 jaw chuck job. If you find plate, drill press or mill. Mere 1018, drill-pointed recess, mod the screw foot accordingly. Ideally, that angle is just lesser than recess with a band of contact. Wipe a little grease on it, boom. Before starting to level, I measure the pitch...
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    FS - vise screw ?

    Also looks like that in a Morgan, Columbian,and Tradesman Wiltons in the 6"-ish category. That end of a vise recieved little development over the years. It supports the centerline and potential resulting endplay corrected in the moving jaw. The nut and screw could replace clapped out pieces in...
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    Rules and suggestions, READ BEFORE POSTING

    If it were I, it'd be offers of PDF's diagnosing bearing failures, how-to proper bearing handling procedures storage-removal-install-initial lube-testing. There'd be indexes of cross references, how to read bearing designations, advantages of all the various seal types, present why certain...
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    Buying manual mills and lathes for a VoTech shop

    note: Careful drawing with a sharp pence at 10X can show .001 Many will find that hard to believe, until countered with the logic how every mold was drawn, detailed and so built, especially dependent on use of shrink rules. Not just plastic molds, everything. Rubber, cinder blocks, phenolics...
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    Buyer beware warning

    Right down to the S/N! That's how to warn a community. I'd also find no hesitation adding specifics on who they are, pics of the head etc. Not being subversive, but a good way to transfer sensitive info is in a pic, without mentioning company, user names etc. It will be less concerning if you...
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    Citizen CMBF1032K barfeed /bar feed

    Thanks for the tip. I'm not familiar with all the CNC manufacturers. This is odd....found Marubeni Citizen-Cincom and support form. Infilled all the contact info, description of request, and hovering over SUBMIT, it disappears. Moving off, it reappears! Lots of surveys insure completion by not...
  7. Toolmaker51

    Efficiency Suggestions

    High-lit in bold my impressions to increase productivity. Turning long sections and parting those is hard to increase, purely that less time spent on non-chip efforts. The bit changes are worse yet because there is no chip effort at all. An economical test is purchase of a tail stock turret...
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    Citizen CMBF1032K barfeed /bar feed

    Anyone familiar with such animals? This sample https://hgrinc.com/productDetail/Machine-Tools/USED-CITIZEN-BAR-FEEDER/06220300070/ Google isn't turning up print material or guides of any kind. The photos don't reveal anything that require electronic interface, or understandable...
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    Used and new from retired machine shop owner

    I was, that part of always on the hunt; but [a] half-decent bundles already picked, without more pics, speculating those conditions of what was posted......
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    Offhand tool grinder wheel designation?

    Got machine off trailer and indoors. Being a wet wheel, the screws (most) are rusted in place. So are both quadrants and bolts for setting table angle........acquisition cost will make all this worthwhile, fingers crossed. Anyway, it's a 10'' wheel, 1.5'' wide, around .200 thickness of abrasive...
  11. Toolmaker51

    Ideas for sticky posts in Abrasive Machining section

    Normally I snip a post when it'll wind up on same page; but...... That technique of wheel burning hogging is prevalent two places. 1, Giant machines. 2 Diemakers; building fine-blanking tooling, punches and built up dies. You offered terrific visuals of capable set ups and inarguable...
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    Offhand tool grinder wheel designation?

    Is this already being discussed; love that pre-post questionnaire. No, according to variously worded searches. Later this morning, pulling in a XLO double end carbide toolbit grinder. Model 148 SN 1480008 3ph, 60hz, 440v, Navy Yard custody plate. 10" wheels, shrouding around them, tilt adjust...
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    Anyone have experience with Summit brand machinery?

    After a great deal of composition, proofing, and convincing argument; none of this refers to ball screws, linear ways, peripherals, imperial to mm conversion, digital control. Just brief empirical development of manual lathes, proper and otherwise.... Summit as a brand, can't report...
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    Dumbest *looking* machine tool ever ?

    Not getting stepped on.
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    Used and new from retired machine shop owner

    Can tell a lot watching one using files and hacksaws. Always with nonchalant "been at this decades". Often exhibit a drawer full of files, not one they paid for. And none with handles.
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    Dumbest *looking* machine tool ever ?

    18 year old post to start......out of how many threads, countless posts, by more than a handful of contributors. Of those, no two people have fully common interests, frame of reference, experience, knowledge, or train of thought. What is common, plenty of 'Diamonds' willing to shit on those...
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    Used and new from retired machine shop owner

    I hope you are kidding? You'll never see a jeweler, a hand fitter (such as side by side shotguns), or other specialties do that; and their files are small and lightweight.
  18. Toolmaker51

    OT: Is technology slowing things down?

    Gibberish.... In. Person. Conversations. Revealed. A. Universal. Reaction....... What. Recent. Conditions. That. Are. Plague-like. Have. Zero. Appreciative. Citizens. Same. Applies. To. Those. Meritless. Idiots. Enacting. Measures. Causing. Those. Problems.
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    OT: Is technology slowing things down?

    It always works well, in states parading as Blue. Why is it so? Shouldn't vote collection be absolutely uniform? If not, there will always be opportunity for manipulation. Always. Past three years, I've driven and met random folks in almost every state but ~six, purple, blue, and fire engine...
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    Dumbest *looking* machine tool ever ?

    Close, well accessorized, but not my pick. It'd be guy with same knot in his hair as a trashbag.
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