Hi Marty,
Now isn't that a good question? They are a mysterious bunch who
don't advertise much!
I noticed a post a few hours back from Clint who identified himself
as a moderator here. You could also contact the list owner on the
principle of going for the boss or if we just bounce messages like
this around, one of them will pop his head up for sure!
John
--- In 7x12minilathe@..., "Marty N" <martyn@...> wrote:
John:
Would I send the photo to the list owner? List moderator? of whom
they are?
Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: born4something
To: 7x12minilathe@...
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 2:28 AM
Subject: [7x12minilathe] Re: Ammeter/Parting
Hi Marty,
You WILL be posting some nice close-up picks of that parting
tool
and especially the business end, won't you?
John
--- In 7x12minilathe@..., "Marty N" <martyn@> wrote:
>
>
> G'day Jim
>
> <snip>
> I am hoping the meter will be useful when parting off as I
frequently
> stall the lathe, even with a 1/16 blade. That is why I wanted
it
at a
> place where I can see it when operating the cross slide. It
certainly
> confirmed I need to change out the horse power resistor; I got
short
> changed.
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
> Ian and All:
>
> Late last fall I bought a SB 10L that had a large box of
tooling,
fixtures
> etc. Last night I was rummaging the larger box for the face
plate
and ran
> across a shoe box sized container of boring and parting
tooling.
Most of
> this looks to have never been used. On one of the boring bars
was
engraved
> "Green 1924". I assume the person or shop that purchased the
tooling and
> date. Much of it is "micro" sized and appears to all be of the
same
> manufacture which I have yet to ascertain, but maybe not all
the
same time
> period (packaging). One of the tools I can only imagine is a
parting tool
> and thus the snip from Ian's post.
>
> This tool doesn't even look like a tool but like a piece of
fine
jewelry!
> I've never seen anything like it. All surfaces are as if you
are
looking
> into a mirror they are that highly polished but it is the
geometry
of the
> tool that is most intriguing. It is multi faceted like a gem
stone. "T" form
> parting blades or those ground from tool steel blanks "Plow"
to
the center
> of the work with a bit of top and side relief curling the chip
straight back
> over the blade. This tool splits the chip or "curl" and
directs it
by a
> complex set of angles away from a sinlge point of contact.
Think
of a "V"
> form snow blade. The address must be critical as the matching
holder and the
> operator end of the tool only permit mounting to a "fixed"
address
it seems.
>
> Point of this was that as I looked at this tool, and after the
amazement of
> the find disapated a bit, was that this shape would use very
little power to
> do a great deal of cutting. It would also apear this tool is
designed to
> part and face both faces of the parted stock in one operation!
>
> Anyway, I has me thinking that shape and address has more to
do
with power
> requirement than just the brute force of plunging a square
faced
tool into
> the stock. Now I wish I wouldn't have opened the package :(
>
> Marty
>
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