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Arnold, I have to say you RT is very impressive, well documented and I would like to thank you very much for posting this here and by doing so allowing the rest of us to be able to learn from what you have done, and honestly it gives us all a quality of workmanship to aspire to :) I will be...

Hey people, recently I had to replace a gear in the mills gearbox. Prior to this the machine seemed to be face cutting pretty well... While I was waiting for the new gear to arrive I got out my precision level and bolted and levelled the mill to the bench - had the level on the table and I...

Firstly Maxine, Thankyou very much for sharing this incident with us... It reinforces my belief in planning for safety... To that end, I have not yet built my furnace, but have begun to aquire the safety equipment I feel will be adequate for the job. I know that if I build the furnace first...

Well mine is a little SEIG C2 lathe... Have not done a lot with it at this stage beyond clean it up and check it out... I did make tool holder for some carbide tips I purchased off ebay last weekend and it works a treat :) I am also building a pretty beefy bench for it as well as leaving room...

You have a garage!!! You have excellent lighting... You lucky lucky basss tard ;D ... All I have is a patio lol... Open to the elements - well at least it does have a roof and poor lighting (for now)... :bow:

That's an interesting idea Graham... My lathe arrived last weekend, I have cleaned it down and made sure it all works etc and lubed it up... The machine is a Sieg C2 lathe... I am now waiting on a couple of items before I begin to machine with it... Namely a machinist level to set up the bed...

thanks for all the input :) it is really appreciated

Ken, Thank you very much for that very informative description of how the broaching tool actually works, you have indeed taught me something :) I know the angle of the broach itself has to have clearance behind the actual tool tip and I figured this was to allow for the waste metal that is...

thanks for that drawing ken... I am wondering, seeing the tooltip has to be centred etc, would it be better to make it so the rotary broach holder is attached to the tool post instead of the tailstock? this would allow centring on the workpiece a lot easier I imagine... especially if setup to...

Hiya people, The other, after reading some information on rotary broach tooling and seeing a rotary broach in action, I was having my lunch at work and thought I would try my hand at designing a rotary broach tool. In the initital rough sketch i had set out the design with a fixed MT2 Arbor...

@ Bill I enjoy designing all sorts of things to be honest, ranging from tooling to engines to guns really just a lot of different things, some things I design are just for the challenge and others are for a specific purpose - not trained in any formal design discipline or anything but do have...

Hiya all. I am new to machining - done it in high school shop ohh so many years ago and have done some designing over the years, now I am in a position to be able to afford to buy the tools to try making some of my designs become a reality :) I am a pratical minded person who, through...