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[Toolguy]

They may smooth out once you are running honeycomb between them.

[Toolguy]

How about a square collet with a collet stop?

[Toolguy]

Drill rod may be had in A2, D2, 01, S7, W1, and other alloys. I have bought all of them at one time or another. Silver Steel seems to be a catch-all generic...

[Toolguy]

With air hardening steels, if you get the cut above a certain temp. it will harden on you. You have to keep spindle speeds low and use air blast or coolant...

[Toolguy]

I have seen them a couple of times, hanging too far out the left side of the spindle, take a 90 degree bend. It gets exciting real quick!

[Toolguy]

Great! Thanks for the heads up. I have bought other tools at Aldi here, just never seen this one before. I didn't recognize the name at first.

[Toolguy]

That's pretty cool. Where do you get those?

[Toolguy]

You can always add some length on the end of the short ones by threading or welding.

[Toolguy]

Since you already have that, it would seem cheap to try and see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, you can put it back together, sell it, and get something...

[Toolguy]

Normally, the parts of the things I'm welding on are up off the table where heat draw isn't a problem. Maybe a part in a small vise, a piece of square...

[Toolguy]

I have made a lot of my own tools like that. If a .200 edge finder will fit in the screw pocket, you can get that centered with it stationary (not turning),...

[Toolguy]

First off, Palmgren has always been overpriced junk. Secondly, their cross slide rotary table is made wrong. The rotary part needs to be on the bottom...

[Toolguy]

A V block held against the side of the tap will align it in 2 planes. Better is to have a thick piece of scrap metal drilled through on a mill or drill...

[Toolguy]

As J Tiers said, the spiral flute taps are not as strong and will break easier than the spiral point taps. You have to be careful how you use the spiral...

[Toolguy]

I use TapMagic for Aluminum. There is a different TapMagic for everything else. I have tried every known cutting fluid and I think this one works the...

[Toolguy]

My welding bench is 1" x 3' x 3' aluminum on a square tube steel frame. I like it because none of the steel welding sticks to it. Super strong if...

[Toolguy]

Beautiful and accurate workmanship! That looks like a worthwhile lathe tool. Thanks for showing us.

[Toolguy]

My 2 R8 CNC mills both have 3 HP spindles. In most cases, 3 HP is about all you can make use of with an R8 tool. I have used BP mills with 1 HP some,...