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Hello. Took me about 2 hours!! Good exercise? Removed the tang and about 5mm of main body. Paul

It only took me about 2mins to cut of the tang. I used a thin 41/2" metal cutting disc that I bought from machine mart. Lots of sparks but it cut it easily. John wrote: vice wrote: on the blunted

Yes, John, you have. But in a good way. It will save me a 2nd order later. Thanks to others for your input. I've added: 2644 Clamps for the faceplate 1222 Chuck studs & nuts 1655 Oil fittings 1773

Mine is marked L - O - R I sort of figured that to mean Left, Off, Right. I dunno? Been wrong before. Ed B be

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Well that confirms a mystery for me! The other thing that puzzled me was that the "Forward" and "Reverse" label on the power switch is backwards. I sort of *thought* the tool cutting edge was supposed

Hi All. Have just used a hacksaw for shortening an Arbor. Held it in the vice using the Tang then used six junior hacksaw blades and a lot of effort!. Used a junior hacksaw as I had plenty of them in

by the way broked centre drills can be converted into nice flat bottom drills by grinding the tip square and putting a bit of relief on the citting edges Gerry Leeds UK

Vicki Ford has a piece on doing this (with photo) on her website. Don't know the link straight off but it is in the links section of www.mini-lathe.com along with some other neat stuff. Gerry leeds UK

Hi Ken, Someone (possibly on this forum) had a neat idea after breaking the tip of a centre drill. They re-ground the thicker remaining stub to gouge AROUND the broke small tip. This allowed access to

Hi John, Some have used a Dremel. I used an angle grinder and cleaned up on the bench grinder. Yes, it's hard. I initially tried a hacksaw but blunted it rather quickly. Get the length right. Cut it

Use Alum to etch them out. --- machinest80 <machinest80@...> wrote: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss

Hi Rance, After I bought my 7x I placed and order on LMS for accessories. Being in Oz I tried to include all I could think of to minimise freight. Nope. I missed things. Just taken delivery of another

Hi, Well, the first question to ask is what do you plan on doing with it, e.g., size of stock to be turned? Max diameter? Max length? Turning gun barrels or pen casings? Take care, DBN machinest80

I have used the thin cutoff disks in a Dremel tool. Cuts hardened tangs and leaves a fine finish. Soak your disks in atf, they last longer.

I have the cheap er32 chuck and collet set. The few sizes I have used are under .0005 run out. I think I paid about $50 (e-bay) for chuck and eleven collets. It's not the machine or tooling that is

Aaron - Thanks for the vote of confidence. I put an Enco order in last night for ten 3/16" blanks and a few different carbide bits just in case. Ed

Don't sell your self short on grinding a tool - it's actually pretty easy to get a decent tool. The angles don't need to be exact. The most important part is to get a nice clean edge on the tool -

Interesting, a 2002 msg has resurfaced! For something that small, the most reliable way to get the broken drills out is chemically. Aluminum is pretty much non-reactive to acids, steel is reactive.

Actually, you can also turn wood with regular metal lathe tooling, handy for making quick fixtures. If you've got access to a decent library, look for anything by DeCristoforo & see if they have any