What Did You Buy Today?

[pontiac428]

 

[IamNotImportant]

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[IamNotImportant]

Well, i bought this chuck, sales taxes ugh!

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Got the chuck here just a while ago, i am happy to report that the chuck on this lathe has less than .001 runout, looking like about 8 tenths

 

[MrCrankyface]

Got lucky on a local "ebay" style site.
6 sided cutter, 40mm diameter and 220mm long, I paid ~20 USD.
Granted it's used but resharpened down to 39.5mm from 40mm.
The sheer length of it should let me do some weird stuff on the mill.
It's also pretty interesting trying to handle such a heavy(1.5kg) endmill without cutting my hands up, definitely need gloves when I put this in a holder.

 

[erikmannie]

I always make my t-nuts.
I use some special material as it's the only thing I've found that puts up with the daily HARD use without deformation or cracking.

Chinese ones strip, te-co ones crack.
At those prices I should be selling mine on ebay! :O

Do you spoil the thread at the bottom? If so, how? With a punch?

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Do you spoil the thread at the bottom? If so, how? With a punch?

I've made one run with a non through thread, did it by not tapping quite through in the cnc.

But I prefer them tapped through, then you can lock them in place.

 

[Just for fun]

I have made a few T Nuts and I tapped them all the way through and then used a center punch to foul the last couple threads. The kit that I bought form Precision Matthews for my mill had all the T-Nuts tapped all the way through. I used a center punch on all of them as well.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

You can also use a long lead or starter tap and stop before the tap cuts all the threads to full depth, same as what Zyox wrote. That's what I did with the ones I made

 

[ChazzC]

From my new FB Marketplace friend:




Not as nice as the small rules, but they cleaned up well.

 

[erikmannie]

From my new FB Marketplace friend:

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Not as nice as the small rules, but they cleaned up well.

I have those exact same scales. I use them all the time & they are great.