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[garyhlucas]

I was turning 304 on a SB heavy 10 with a big chip coming off. My said “Our machinist said our lathe couldn’t cut stainless!” I said HE couldn’t...

[garyhlucas]

Asked the grandson to find the sex bolts in the plastic bins yesterday. He thought I was kidding but he finally found them.

[garyhlucas]

I set my Z using a 3/8” round pin. That lets me rapid down and have time to stop and then roll the pin under the tool. It leaves room for an accidental...

[garyhlucas]

Black,
What has changed in the world of CNC is not the machines or controllers as much as CAM. I worked as a CNC programmer writing programs by...

[garyhlucas]

Get a copy of CamBam, free for 40 sessions then $150 good forever. Extremely simple to use. I’ve given phone lessons to numerous people and would be...

[garyhlucas]

We used to paint machine frames with a white oul based enamel and it took days to get hard and then we had to do a lot of touch up because it chipped...

[garyhlucas]

It's not that 3 plates are better than two, it's that two plates can have almost any shape and touch at every point. Two plates are used to grind spherical...