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[Toolguy]

Might be a set for recutting valve seats and valve guides in older engines.

[Toolguy]

That set was probably used by a pattern maker for making mold box and core for castings. You have to make the mold cavity bigger by the amount of shrinkage...

[Toolguy]

I will send you the 39/64 collet if that will help you....

[Toolguy]

A really good chuck.

[Toolguy]

I buy mostly from McMaster-Carr, eBay, Amazon, Shars, Grizzly, and Victor Machine. Shars has very good carbide insert tooling for lathe and mill at killer...

[Toolguy]

I have a 6" and 8" 6 jaw Bison adjust tru chuck. They are just about the only chucks I use anymore for the last 15 years. I also use collets...

[Toolguy]

Removed my address. I sent a PM with my address.

Hi Oxford-


Let me know how much for shipping. Thanks!

[Toolguy]

I can use them.

[Toolguy]

Ingersoll is good quality, but in the past they have often had oddball size and shapes of inserts that can be hard to find.

[Toolguy]

Get a Phase II Spindex with a matching tailstock. Index every 30 degrees. Need 5C collets or 5c lathe chuck.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5C...

[Toolguy]

I have bought over 1000 individual tools for the shop in the last 20 years on eBay. Mostly things that I would never find otherwise and mostly paid pennies...

[Toolguy]

Might think about reed valves on the engine side of the carb, a lot of motorcycles had that. It's simple and automatic.

[Toolguy]

The easy way to do that would be to bore the ends for about 1/2" to 1" deep in the ends, on size or a bit under, then use a 5/8" parabolic...

[Toolguy]

Some people would not last very long in a job shop...

That's the great thing about having your own shop at home. You are free to do everything...

[Toolguy]

You don't use a paper clip. More like a .002 shim that goes between the rack and the gear to make it skip a tooth. Each tooth is .025, so you can move...

[Toolguy]

I have a 3/8 and 1/2" Wahlstrom drill chucks and lever collet closer for 5C collets on the lathe. Use both pretty often. Both can really speed up...

[Toolguy]

A spirol, or coiled spring pin is a spring pin with multiple layers. It is used the same as a spring pin, but is stronger. They have light, medium, and...