User Profile

[eKretz]

I don't like them either. Don't care about z height that much but the rigidity loss is pretty significant in my experience....

[eKretz]

There are a few milling vises I know of without the center hole. Chick made a One-Lok that was a really nice looking vise, not sure if they still offer...

[eKretz]

That's fame for you. Brings out the adorers and the crazies....

[eKretz]

I made the same comment on YouTube, but at the end of that video you can see that the driver got his vehicle stuck. He was high-centered on something...

[eKretz]

No, it's a new material. Well, semi-new. It's been talked about for 20 years but not produced in volume until fairly recently. This is not a metal though,...

[eKretz]

It does matter in the direction I'm pretty sure he is talking about. If I have it right he doesn't mean a taper in the diameter of the counterbore, and...

[eKretz]

It sounds like he's saying the bottom seating surface of the counterbored hole is not parallel to the underside of the jaw. And yes, you should be able...

[eKretz]

Good luck!

[eKretz]

Oh that's tough. It may take a while to find something if you are holding out for something local and cheap. I picked up a stacked pair of Temco furnaces...

[eKretz]

I have a Hitachi 3 HP and an older 25 HP Baldor. Neither have given me any problems and both work great on single phase input.

[eKretz]

Brian, I'm not sure if you're unhappy with my thoughts on the subject or not... But having made some pretty fiddly bits in machine shops for a living...

[eKretz]

Nice job Mike! That looks great.

Fingers crossed for you Brian!

[eKretz]

Good luck!

I was googling to see how modern piston rings were made and clicking through a few videos on YouTube when this came up:
...

[eKretz]

I would do the pinch and OD turn or grind method. Any method that modifies the rings' diameters after they are finished seems doomed to failure in my...

[eKretz]

Maybe not so useless on an electric saw. On at least some of those the brake is the only thing keeping the saw from going full throttle if the trigger...

[eKretz]

I always wondered why they don't use a method more like:

Turn the ring roughly to O.D. size and slightly over desired finished I.D size,...

[eKretz]

Oops! I was thinking you were describing the cutting of the ring grooves....

[eKretz]

I wouldn't do that anyway, regarding cutting the groove. You want to be able to finish with a nice light cut on both sides to get a very clean and true...

[eKretz]

Practical Machinist website.

Hello eKretz

Re your comment on:
https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/fo...ny-uk-buying-a...