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[Toolguy]

What kind of trap is that?

[Toolguy]

Good advice for stainless. I use 303 as much as possible, it doesn't work harden like some other ones. It machines easier than 1018 low carbon steel....

[Toolguy]

Sorry you are having a tough go with those guys, BF. If you stick with it, and bulldoze your way through, you'll be glad you did in the end. By the time...

[Toolguy]

Maybe they have some trash they want to add to it. Watch yer back...

[Toolguy]

It does work if you seal the envelope correctly. Your way works too. You can make an inexpensive paste with Borax and water that also works.

[Toolguy]

I have a small programmable heat treat oven that I use the stainless foil with paper inside fairly often. It works very well. The paper burns up long...

[Toolguy]

I mostly use the insert cutters for roughing and facing cuts. They will make a flat surface in short order.

[Toolguy]

That is the surface layer of metal burning off.

[Toolguy]

It seems to me that a hose clamp would work.

[Toolguy]

With dry chucks, I clean them about once a month. It's a 10 minute job to pull the jaws, clean them with a chip brush, Blow out the scroll area while...

[Toolguy]

You can't be accurate enough touching off with the lathe off. Use Dykem or a red or blue magic marker and color a band around the part. Touch off with...

[Toolguy]

Kind of hard to use that in a cordless drill, drill press or mill spindle.

[Toolguy]

I just went and checked mine. A 9/16 tap easily fits, a 5/8 not quite. I have used 1/2" taps in mine (the larger one) lots of times. A T handle...

[Toolguy]

There are tap adapters for use in a drill chuck. You need a 3/8" square socket adapter with a 1/4" hex to go with it.


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[Toolguy]

I have 2 Bison chucks just like that one, a 6" and an 8". I don't grease mine, I run them dry. They get daily use, and show very little wear...

[Toolguy]

You could cut them into 1' lengths and sell them to home shop machinists, makers, DIYers, etc. If you charged $5 a foot, you would be under the going...

[Toolguy]

Hi BF - The sound on mine was with everything sitting still, table not moving.

[Toolguy]

That's what I was thinking. That can be caused by a looseness in the mechanical system. Maybe the ballscrew bearings aren't adjusted tight enough, or...

[Toolguy]

Honda engines have a good rep for reliability. Hard to say why they may be selling it, maybe something is about to go out, maybe not. I do like the track...

[Toolguy]

I would have a shoulder on the shaft for a solid stop on one inner race, a spacer between them, the same length as the ledge for the outer races, then...