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They look good. It seems this product is a saturated cloth of Brasso, silver polish, or the like. If so, a can of polish and rag would go a long way for the price of one of these cloths.
 
Does anyone know if Starrett could/would sell a replacement pouch for a set of adjustable parallels?
 
Gaffer said:
They look good. It seems this product is a saturated cloth of Brasso, silver polish, or the like. If so, a can of polish and rag would go a long way for the price of one of these cloths.
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Where did you get this information?

The only ingredient that is called out is Coconut Oil. I could find nothing else on the internet. According to the package this will work on metal, wood, ceramic, enamel and auto bodies. It was developed by a muscial instrument care company, Dunlop Mft. Co. out of Benicia, CA

If it had Brasso or other chemicals like it, It seems it would stain wood.

If you have access to a better information source I would love to see it.
 
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I'm sorry and didn't mean anything by it. I hadn't heard of the product and wasn't calling its quality into question. I was thinking of metal cleaning/polishing when I responded to your post. I'm glad it works, and it sounds very versatile.
 
Just pulled the trigger on a new Bison 8" 6 jaw set-tru chuck! I'm tired of dialing in my work on my old 8" 4 jaw and most of my raw stock is cold rolled, so I figured I'd go a bit nuts and get a high quality 6 jaw that could stand in for my 4 jaw most of the time. I'll still lug out the 4 jaw for hot rolled stock/weird setups, but the 6 jaw should save me boatloads of time. Also, I'll stop deforming my round parts by putting too much gronk on them. Can't wait for it to get here!
 
Badabinski said:
Just pulled the trigger on a new Bison 8" 6 jaw set-tru chuck! I'm tired of dialing in my work on my old 8" 4 jaw and most of my raw stock is cold rolled, so I figured I'd go a bit nuts and get a high quality 6 jaw that could stand in for my 4 jaw most of the time. I'll still lug out the 4 jaw for hot rolled stock/weird setups, but the 6 jaw should save me boatloads of time. Also, I'll stop deforming my round parts by putting too much gronk on them. Can't wait for it to get here!
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How does a set-tru chuck work?
 
Brento said:
How does a set-tru chuck work?
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I don't know the mechanical details, but from my understanding there's basically a plate between the chuck and the backplate. This middle plate has some screws in it that push on the chuck itself. Using the screws, you can push the chuck in X and Y to true it up really precisely for a certain diameter range of stock. You do have to true it up again if the diameter of your work changes substantially, however, since a different part of the scroll may center up differently.

I was inspired to get it by Abom79, who has a TMX set-tru 6 jaw and (I think) routinely gets half a thou of runout.

EDIT: I'm not totally correct here. See the response @BGHansen left for a more accurate answer.
 
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Fermic said:
Well, it was long waiting for a big parcel to arrive but there's it with my 4" 4-jaw chuck, Alu 6061, Steel 12L14 and Tellurium Copper round bars to spice up my diy electronic stuff as well.

Did you have to pay duty on the hobby metal aluminum coming into Canada?
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