2018 Archive

[Janderso]

Room Supra and a Jacobs Super chuck key.
I ordered the key before the fire. I don’t remember which model chuck.
I love these Rohm chucks, smooth as silk.
My brain is in la la land, I ordered two of them for some reason.
O well, i’ll Mount one on a straight shank for the mill and the other with an MT3.
I bought a Kurt DX6 also. Sweet!

 

[francist]

Set of roll pin punches arrived in the mail today. My first experience with Grace Tools -- they look and feel really good. Haven't had a chance to put them to use yet, but just on first appearances I think I'm liking them!

-frank

 

[Liljoebrshooter]

I ordered these last week for my present. The rotary table needed a little love. The chuck just needed a little cleaning.
I had to set the face mill up just to see it make some chips.

 

[Aukai]

Got a heads up about a Dorion SDN 25 AXA tool post, last one on Amazon Prime 200.00

 

[mmcmdl]

Can't go wrong with Dorian or Aloris . Expensive but NICE !

 

[GoceKU]

The holidays are coming, so i stopped by the local flea market and couple of car part stores, i bought couple grease fittings to install and change the ones on the litle Niva i'm fixing, also bought this rhom keyed drill chuck, it is new but is missing its key, also bought two HSS countersinks 25mm and 30mm complete with holders i also found this original Lada ignition lock, at first look like NOS but after clean up its been used but is still usable. And on the way back i had to go to 4 parts stores to find oil and air filter for the little Niva, they are very cheap half price then for french cars, after the new year looks like i'll have couple of days off work so i plan to get it finished as much as i can then.

 

[BGHansen]

Few Christmas and eBay additions:

Bought another 4-set Sears sanding block set from eBay seller stm_surplus. There are rubber and have nails embedded to hold the paper in place. Much nicer than my typical scrap block of wood cut to size, $18 including shipping.


Picked up this lot of Nicholson files off eBay for about $30 including shipping


Christmas gift from my wife. Think she's giving me a hint to get out of the habit of wiping the files on my pants to clean them. . .


Another Christmas present from my better half. I have a steel screw checker, but you have to thread the screw/bolts into a hole to check the thread size. These side-load plastic ones should go quicker.


I think I've cut one left-hand thread ever. Saw these LH threading tools on eBay and picked up a pair for my Grizzly and Clausing lathes ($12 shipped each). They came with 16IRA60 inserts. Off the top of my head here, so consider the source, but the 16 is the size, "I" is internal, "R" is right hand thread, and the "A60" is (I think) 8-48 tpi.

I was curious about the inserts as it seems to me that there should be some side relief at the tip of the insert. Direction would be different for LH vs. RH threads as the helix angle is opposite relative to straight up and down. Well, set both a LH and RH tool on a plate with a square and I don't see a difference. The side relief could be done on the casting of the insert, or on the surface on the tool holder where the insert screws down. Looks to me like both the LH and RH Chinese tool holders I have are pretty much dead straight up and down. I set the LH and RH tool holders next to each other and they look parallel. Curious why there's no side relief . . .



Was getting low on QCTP tool holders so picked up 6 more from CDCOtools


Our local Tractor Supply store had a clearance on 1/4" air hose quick connects. Didn't need a dozen of them for $1 each, but . . .


Went on a measuring tool buying spree. Now I can measure how poorly I'm hitting my targets! Picked up a Chinese 0-6" digital depth micrometer. I have an NSK 0-4" or 0-6" set too, impulse buy for $40 off eBay (including shipping).

Picked up a couple of tumbler style Mitutoyo micrometers: Tubing and 60 deg. V. Paid around $50 for the pair.

Also get a Mitutoyo uni-mike. Both the blade and pin anvils are there, $40.

Lastly, a Mitutoyo 0-1" groove micrometer. Impulse buy as I don't do a lot of internal grooving jobs, but it was a good deal at $85 shipped.






Bruce

 

[GoceKU]

Nice score Bruce, those sending blocks sure look to be better quality then cheap china one in stores today.

 

[jrkorman]

Christmas present to myself. Saw these for sale just before Christmas at $85 including shipping. Couldn't turn that down.
Nice set, complete, no scratches, etc. They're about a 12 year old SPI (Chinese) set.

From having looked at a few EBay auctions and others for sale, I have to admit that "Mr John Q Sue" is a busy dude!

 

[Cadillac]

Got myself a little Christmas gift searching eBay one night. Only problem was the box looked like this when I opened the box.

The box sounded rattly when the girl handed it to me. Dam it. The fella didn’t pack anything inside the wooden box to keep the 20lb fixture from moving around and it had went right through the lid of the box.

I immediately emailed the seller and he just blew it of as usps being ruff with packages. I repeatedly told him his disregard for putting anything in the box to keep the fixture from moving was the problem. The cardboard box was fine.
Anyways the good thing that came out was the seller refunded me the full purchase. And said I could keep the sale as he would put a claim in with the usps. So i guess it worked out I purchased a yuasa endmill grinding fixture for my T&C grinder and ended up getting it for free. It came with two different spindles and all the collets from 1/8 to 1 1/4 shanks. After disassembling and checking for damage I threw it up on the plate. Theirs a deviation of .0004 from left side of tube to the right side. I think that should be alright.

Now I need to remake the top of the wooden box. Looking at it more the box was all wrong anyway wrong size and style. To tall, deep and top opening. I’ll make one that’s fitted for the tool. Holds all the collets and spindles the proper way.