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Kludge
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These all relate to tooling for the Taig, not the smaller lathes.
In cruising eBay, I ran into some mills that were disk shaped and had the toothy parts along one surface as well as the perimeter. They had diameters ranging from 2.5" to 4" and were an average .5" thick. One other thing they were was cheap. I like cheap. It fits my budget.
It appears I don't have a fly cutter, even though I thought I bought one. Would it be possible to use one of these mills as one or should I bite a soft rubber bullet (to prevent damage to my dentures) and spend the extra for a real fly cutter?
I found a discussion here about carbide lathe tools and what C2 and C6 were good for (and I assume C5 is pretty much C6ish), but in that same cruise I noted that some tools just said they were carbide with no indication of what flavor. What is the best guess as to what they are? (I'm quite happy with HSS for what I do, so this is more out of curiosity.)
(I also saw some carbide endmills that looked promising as to size but, again, no indication what kind.)
Is there any problem if I can't get up to speed/feed rates for certain materials and/or tools or is this going to be a problem. With that, the Taig doesn't have a variable speed drive yet so I have six choices as to how fast I can turn the spindle. If I have a choice between being somewhat under or somewhat over the desired speed, which is the better choice?
The reasons for all the questions about tooling for this machine is that I know that I shall need to whittle down some parts from stock too large for the smaller lathes to handle. They are quite capable within their limitations but the stock I received exceeded those limits quite quickly. BEsides, I went to all the trouble of getting it back in operating condition (and better adjusted that it ever was before) so I really should get some use out of it.
Best regards,
Kludge
In cruising eBay, I ran into some mills that were disk shaped and had the toothy parts along one surface as well as the perimeter. They had diameters ranging from 2.5" to 4" and were an average .5" thick. One other thing they were was cheap. I like cheap. It fits my budget.
It appears I don't have a fly cutter, even though I thought I bought one. Would it be possible to use one of these mills as one or should I bite a soft rubber bullet (to prevent damage to my dentures) and spend the extra for a real fly cutter?
I found a discussion here about carbide lathe tools and what C2 and C6 were good for (and I assume C5 is pretty much C6ish), but in that same cruise I noted that some tools just said they were carbide with no indication of what flavor. What is the best guess as to what they are? (I'm quite happy with HSS for what I do, so this is more out of curiosity.)
(I also saw some carbide endmills that looked promising as to size but, again, no indication what kind.)
Is there any problem if I can't get up to speed/feed rates for certain materials and/or tools or is this going to be a problem. With that, the Taig doesn't have a variable speed drive yet so I have six choices as to how fast I can turn the spindle. If I have a choice between being somewhat under or somewhat over the desired speed, which is the better choice?
The reasons for all the questions about tooling for this machine is that I know that I shall need to whittle down some parts from stock too large for the smaller lathes to handle. They are quite capable within their limitations but the stock I received exceeded those limits quite quickly. BEsides, I went to all the trouble of getting it back in operating condition (and better adjusted that it ever was before) so I really should get some use out of it.
Best regards,
Kludge