G'day folks and thanks
Chuck, Joe thank you i'm going to try both of these to check results but will most lilely do both,
one project i have is a steady holder for my dremel, sort of a mini mill with the dremel as the motors and chuck part but think i will use the slitting saw for my X2 clone and have sent emails to a company or 3 to ask if they will ship here ( MAN are there some fine ones available just again not here , OZ) cheers
greenie, rick thank you i was thinking that way myself but i will wish to cut tool steel ( and screwed 3 jewelers blades yesterday finding out what did not work ) :big:
Bob, basically i'm scaling down tools, i have been a avid tool nut for years for various reasons
Knife making and rifle making being a big part of that to the extent i now pretty much rely on Black Powder Rifles as my main part of my income with the odd Bolt Action thrown in
and over the years have hung around old blokes who have made their own tools and been influenced by Popular Mecanics magazine, popular science and The Home Gunsmith magazines and the tools they publish ( i've been scanning these and putting the expired copyright versions/ permitted public usage versions in the download sections)
i am not a engineer, not even a decent mechanic just comfortable with working with the tools i know and trust and wish to scale these down to suit model making. Some of these tools have very small slits similar to collet bands/slots/slits ( what is the name for the slot on a collet?) and this is why the need for small slitting saws.
my long term goal is a RC model i have made myself, very advanced even by many folks here standards and maybe not doable within 10 years, but i'll have a go and go step by step and learn skill by skill along the way
the RC is the easy part the body is relatively easy, the rest ( engine and controls) we'll see as i go, I hope to learn those parts here frankly.
another project is a 1/10th scale fully functional black powder rifle, this will not take 10 years and hope to have a few of these made to promote my real rifles in the USA and EU by the end of next year, global economy permitting.
( mounted in a presentation case etc not intended for use but capable of being used if you have the inclination /streak of madness once i have one made i'll make a video of it and Youtube it etc and give copies of the video to my agent in the US to show his clients as a promotional tool)
again the tooling for these will need to be scaled down and again the need to cut very small slits on tool steel is needed to make this happen, a swiss company that made "so so " quality handguns became very famous ( and increased thier sales but 1800%) by making the worlds smallest operational handguns, i wish to do similar with blackpowder rifles. But purely as a promotional thing, not mass produced. can you imagine the rifling die for a 1.95mm bore? ( 0.0765" cal.
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Again thank you to everyone for thier input , i have catalouges for Australia up the wahzoo but things this thin or specialised are just not listed here and if you do not use the correct term in google etc i get Australian listings that again do not suit, i went to MCS ( thanks Chuck!) cut and paste the heading for thier slitting saws ( micro fine) into google and got a heap of listing that did suit. without this info/ term i was chasing ghosts.
cheers
jack
