Recent content by Hexbasher

cool.....too bad they only have 'USA' in their shipping section..otherwise i'd think i would have ordered one just now....

at work, i will alway ream a hole in a vertical manual mill over doing by hand or even CNC....i will only do cnc if the number of parts or holes out-weigh the labor of doing one at a time taper pin reamers or expanding reamers are the only ones i do by hand

i setup my okuma at work for M1 tapping once...lol

why make one when you could just steal one from the broken Kurt vise at work ;D

i use my 6inch yankee starret one the most at work

i often use a pencil grinder and 7deg tapered carbide bur to remove broken screws at work i like to try to grind a slot and attempt to use a screw driver to crank the broken bolt out.

according to my references, S2 is the tool steel for pneumatic chisles also used in wrenches, some dies, stamps, and afew other things, but not cutting tools

thats hilarious

as a blue collar machinist, most my tool at mitutoyo and they are ALL made in japan minus my two mag-bases which are made in Brazil i have : 0-1, 1-2, 2-3,3-4,4-5,6-7 0.0001" mics 0-1 0.001" mic 0-1 0.001" 30deg point mic 0-1 0.0001 multianvil mic 0-25,25-50,50-75,75-100 mm mics 0-6 0.001"...

i save damn near every broken tap, endmill, whatever.... i have afew 'crashed' indexable tooling i've refurbish as well

i make tons of boring bars (as well as d-bits) from 8 dollar(cheapy's) 1/2 2 flute hss end mills at my new shop i work at i hand grind simple single point boring out of old end mills all the time for boring heads (superior for aluminum IMO) one time i had to do a weird gloove in a milled part...

Just noticed, is that your wife's nice bowl youre using for your mysterious alchemy?????

Go to a gunsmith shop or gun shop...they have (or should) have all different colors for all sorts of metals....i got a black for 6061, same idea.....but when i clear coated the parts, turned alil purple....but i blame the paint...ended up sending the parts off to be anodized

i was cutting BSP and BSPT threads all this week at work in manifolds....

what!!!! its the best.....i still miss the deep fried toast!!!!!though, i think the time spent on the Army Bases in th UK knocked afew years off me....