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[LKeithR]

A drill does not push material ahead of it except when you get close to the breakout point. You always
get a little bulge just before the drill...

[LKeithR]

Sheesh. With nice fusion welds like that it's gonna take a ton of torque to break those welds. They
might fail if you used an impact gun but hand...

[LKeithR]

Before you go to all the trouble of trying to bore the knuckle out see if you can find a local shop
that has a Sunnen pin hone. Unless the holes...

[LKeithR]

Definitely more of a spinning than flaring operation. If the OP can't explain his process with
clear text and pictures then he shouldn't be indignant...

[LKeithR]

When the spring has lost tension--or was just too weak to begin with--the retracting motion can get
quite jerky. The spring pulls the ram back...

[LKeithR]

That was my first thought too. Three different cutters for multi-angle seats......

[LKeithR]

Silver and Deming made the first American reduced shank drill bits. Prentiss, a British company, made the first
reduced shank drills. When I buy...

[LKeithR]

I'm not sure what the problem is. Including metric, fractional, number and letter size drills there
are 371 steps starting at .25 mm and going...

[LKeithR]

I've had really good luck with Insize digital calipers but I'm assuming at those prices you're talking
about vernier calipers, not digital. I have...

[LKeithR]

I've never seen the point of buying "sets" of taps and dies--seems to me you always end up with a
bunch you never use. The other thing...

[LKeithR]

I don't see any conundrum here. There are three things a twist drill will NOT do:

1) Make round holes.
2) Make holes that are consistent...

[LKeithR]

One of those tools that doesn't get used very often--in the average shop, anyway--but comes in damn
handy when you really need it. I have two sets...

[LKeithR]

I've never seen the point of a 3-jaw on a 5C mount--I guess if you're using it for indexing it would
be all right but for any kind of turning there...

[LKeithR]

Can't say I've ever seen P & O bar stock or structural shapes but it's quite common in thinner plates and sheet.
A lot of laser cutting shops...

[LKeithR]

I've got one of the Noga misters and, now that I've figured it out, it works great. When I first got it I ran it
through a regulator with quite...

[LKeithR]

If I had to use some of that chemical bath witchcraft every time I needed to machine a piece of hot rolled material
I'd never get anything done....

[LKeithR]

There are several good suppliers in the (BC) lower mainland: Thomas Skinner, A.C.T. Equipment and
Technicut. Don't know about Busy Bee, haven't...

[LKeithR]

You must have posted this while I was typing my reply. 😂 But you're correct, APKT is APKT. Any
insert with that prefix will fit. Profiles...

[LKeithR]

Over the years the manufacturers of all the insert tooling we use have managed to keep the tools
for turning pretty consistent--most inserts with...

[LKeithR]

My favourite trick is losing stuff in the shop. I'll have something in my hand that I need for a project and
absent-mindedly put it down when I...