What Did You Buy Today?

[DavidR8]

Yup, look just the same. 7" Thick & heavy.

Thanks Larry appreciate the confirmation.

 

[dkemppai]

just remember most of his work is fine small work. He does not do a lot of large scale work. I prefer larger endmills to hog off lots of material.

I would say most of my work is small work too.
On stout manual mills it makes sense to run big cutters. Slow RPM will get SFPM, and hand feeding can get needed IPM. So material removal rate can be high. Small mills (at least, mine) don't like hogging with big cutters. Too much deflection and chatter. By going to a smaller coated carbide cutter and MUCH higher RPM with CNC you can remove a surprising amount of material. Especially if you use trochoidal milling paths or similar.

For me, the biggest difference with small vs. large endmills is that you get more cutting edges per dollar with smaller tooling. Not quite as good as replaceable inserts, but not bad. That, and a crash is less damaging to the machine! (Ask me how I know. lol)

 

[wachuko]

Got a small vacuum forming machine...and brass threaded inserts in different sizes with heat gun adapters for install...

 

[Larry$]

small vacuum forming machine

Are you going into the false teeth business?

 

[dkemppai]

Are you going into the false teeth business?

Betcha it's for the model building bench he just put together.

 

[wachuko]

Are you going into the false teeth business?

Betcha it's for the model building bench he just put together.

Exactly!! To make 1:32 bodies, cockpits, and windshields out of clear plastic sheets…

 

[rwdenney]

I'm tired of the crappy drill press vise I've been using (which is a cheapie import), and the XY positioning vise that I bought years ago is even worse. But they were perfect for the crappy import drill press--one needed the looseness of those vises to let the work wiggle enough not to break drills, given the .060 runout of that drill press (before improvement, at least).

For my new-to-me drill press, I wanted something better, but without spending significant money. A float-lock vise would be nice, but I never see them on the secondary market and new they are north of three hundred bucks at Penn Tool. I see why Youtubers make them, but I'd need a mill to do a proper job of that.

So, here's a couple of recent ebay finds: a Mastercraft XY table and a Lassy Rapid-LOX vise. Neither is in perfect condition by any means, but then neither am I. I particularly like the stepped jaws on the vise, and the XY table will makes some things possible that require a lot of drafting now. For example, it's easy enough to lay out a bolt circle on a flat piece of steel. But if the flange being drilled has an open bore and a collar that prevents laying a straightedge across the flange, laying out a bolt circle gets a lot harder. One generally has to lay it out on paper and then transfer-punch it onto the flange. But with this XY table. One can make a small jig to center the table under the spindle, and then crank out X by the radius of the bolt circle. The table rotates above the XY slides, so one can then just rotate the table by the appropriate number of degrees for the number of holes in the bolt circle. This is not accurate enough for threaded holes that need to be within a couple of thou, but it is more than accurate enough for even tightish clearance holes.

Mastercraft was based in California, and these were pretty solidly made. The dovetails are reportedly machined and not ground, but these are intended for workpiece location, not milling, or at least not milling anything harder than soft materials.

Unfortunately, the table is missing the vise jaws, but I'll probably locate some milling table clamps to use with the T-slots. These look to be 5/8" T-slots in the 7x7" table. Important is that the table is only 4" tall, which on my drill press is important vertical real-estate.





But eventually I'll get a float-lock vise, one way or the other.

Rick "a LOT less than three bills for both of these" Denney

 

[wachuko]

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But eventually I'll get a float-lock vise, one way or the other.

Rick "a LOT less than three bills for both of these" Denney

Make one! Look, if I was able to do it... anyone, and I mean anyone, can do it...

EDIT: I read your post again…you do not have a mill… yes, not sure how to do one without a milling machine.

 

[lordbeezer]

Bought this 2-3 years ago in top and bottom Kennedy boxes. My Best friend was a retired machinist that knew seller. They worked a deal on all. Friend downtown James jimmy brown gave me a good deal on all. He got sick and passed soon after so never messed with stuff much. Most of this tooling is above my pay grade. Sorry for long post. Friends wife is gonna let me know when she’s ready to sell his shop FULL of lathe. Mill. Shaper.tool grinders. More tooling than I’ve ever seen. Many wooden boxes in stacks. B&S. Starrett. Others.

 

[wachuko]

Bought this 2-3 years ago in top and bottom Kennedy boxes. My Best friend was a retired machinist that knew seller. They worked a deal on all. Friend downtown James jimmy brown gave me a good deal on all. He got sick and passed soon after so never messed with stuff much. Most of this tooling is above my pay grade. Sorry for long post. Friends wife is gonna let me know when she’s ready to sell his shop FULL of lathe. Mill. Shaper.tool grinders. More tooling than I’ve ever seen. Many wooden boxes in stacks. B&S. Starrett. Others.

Very sorry to read about your friend.

Those tools shared in the post, oh my...