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[BCRider]

I found a few pictures of the 118 on the general web and this lathe does in fact use front and rear V ways for the carriage....

[BCRider]

You may not have any ID threading to do but how about sticking the boring bar you used back in and for giggles just with the lathe off engage the thread...

[BCRider]

Call it "ramping up"?

A bit of a real world example might be a wide drawer in a poorly made dresser. Pull or push it closed...

[BCRider]

If the cutter is simple dull and needs a higher pressure to force the cut then I'd expect it to also generate more down resistance and as you say it would...

[BCRider]

John, what you described with the REAR lifting would be the case with a regular cut into an OD of a piece where there is enough resistance. But in this...

[BCRider]

So after seeing the rocker arms sitting on the USB connector and being taunted into looking back at the vise picture.... How big is the small vise held...

[BCRider]

Perhaps associated or perhaps not but I downloaded a "bubble level" app for my phone a few months back. I was shocked that it read to 0.1°....

[BCRider]

That's some super nice work. And I gotta say that it's great to see someone posting a project thread.

Will be enjoying this for a few...

[BCRider]

I'm guessing along with you Tom.... Or that's one really funky looking lathe.....

And one heck of an over achieving way to cut a rabet.......

[BCRider]

In an internal threading cut there's two pressures. One is the downward load on the top of the cutter due to removing the metal. The other is any radial...

[BCRider]

And why constant velocity joints are used in front wheel drives where the rotational matching needs to be consistent across a wider angle.

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[BCRider]

Ship, I realize that you're just getting your feet wet at this stuff. But by now you must be getting the idea that no one set of just about anything will...

[BCRider]

And possibly pressure lock the cam against vibrating loose easily? That's a good thought....

[BCRider]

You're being too specific in your search terms in that case. I went onto the UK Amazon from one of your original links and searched just for "v...

[BCRider]

Nice! And yeah that would certainly work. Although for the larger sizes I might go with steel and slightly bevel the outer facets so they grip mostly...

[BCRider]

Reading thru this thread again I had what might be a misguided thought. With the very limited clamping range on the low profile Mite Bite and similar...

[BCRider]

M&W is a top name brand. I would rate the quality of M&W as on par with anything that ever came out of Starrett or B&S. So yeah, you're...

[BCRider]

Within that price range I don't think you'll really find any of them are better than the other. The key is looking for all ground surfaces and "matched...

[BCRider]

Because face mills in days gone past needed careful sharpening and at one point the ones with inserts cost the world. And until the last 10 to 15 years...

[BCRider]

I'd say it depends on if he can use the MT3 chuck on anything else. If he has no other application for the MT3 arbor chuck and were not to at least...