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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: General
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: General
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: CNC Machining
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: General
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: CNC Machining
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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......- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Abrasive Machining
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Abrasive Machining
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Abrasive Machining
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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...- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: General
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Dumbest *looking* machine tool ever ?
Not getting stepped on.- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: General - Archive
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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.- Toolmaker51
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- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted