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I also have a Taig which has an optional headstock adapter. Mount the adapter on the Rotary Table concentric to rotation. Then you can spin on a 3 or 4 jaw taig chuck to hold your stuff. Here's a video I made using this principle while making a clock wheel...

Tel, Simple and elegant, looks like it'll get the job done. Al

Steamer, I just looked again at WR Smiths pictures, your right he is cutting internal teeth! Got to study that a little longer. Its the third picture up from the bottom Thanks Again

Thanks LongRat and Jason Jason, I looked up Shapers and Slotters and see there's a possibility there. We intend to make the cutting tooth ourselves for the perfect shape. Maybe a vibrating plunger in a punch block moving the cutter with a 1/4 inch stroke. Only plan on taking off a thousand or...

A clock maker friend called me to ask how to cut internal teeth on a ring gear. The gear OD is about 3 inches and inside 2.75 inches, width is 3/16 and made of brass. Is this a impossible task on a milling machine with dividing head rotary table? I figure if it can be done you guys would have...

The noise, the vibration and pull on the handle, always a split second from the ground and knowing you can't shut it off makes this hobby very exciting. I flew Radio Control for 25 years but its just not the same.

I never get tired of learning something new and this trade seems to have an endless supply of items to learn about. Take yesterday, I was reading through the MSC catalog and read that Dies which are hex shaped are re-threading to be used with a socket or crescent wrench. Round dies are for...

Thanks Guys, Your explanations cleared that up for me.

Horizontal Surface Grinders make a flat finish on many kinds of material. Lets say 6 inch square by 1/2 inch plate of steel. Question is, doesn't the diameter of the grinding wheel change ever so slightly from the beginning of the job to completing it? and if so would not the finished surface...

Great Thread!! So little time and so much to do. After 5 hip surgeries, nerve damage and arthritis keeping me slowed down, I wanted to prove to myself I could still fly control line planes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ZcwO-XwMc Hope you guys can get me started on a small engine like a...