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- boring bar, 1/2 inch, Lewiston, cash today
Forty is fine. Friday. Text me when you're on the hill, not from the parking lot of a parts store.
- boring bar, 1/2 inch, Lewiston, cash today
Need a 1/2 inch boring bar, HSS or the insert kind, I don't care, as long as the shank is round and not bent. Lewiston. I'll pay a sensible…
- boring bar springs, hole is bigger at the front
That's spring. Shorter bar, bigger bar, or a lighter finish pass that isn't trying to correct the roughing pass in one hero move. A 1/2 bar…
- how much backlash is just 'it's a lathe'
You get used to being wrong in a consistent direction. That is not holding a thou. JT, indicate it. If it's under fifteen thou at the tool,…
- what are you making that isn't a test bar
Bushings for a hay elevator and a shaft I will not describe because the customer is shy and wrong about the print. They left the shop. That…
- insert geometry, I bought three and they all look the same
The last letters are the chipbreaker and the grade. You bought a stainless grade, a steel grade, and something for cast iron, and you asked…
- carbide again, different atlas, same argument
Nobody wants it to fail. Your lathe is stiffer or your stickout is shorter or you're not hearing it. Delaney, shorten it and slow it. Repor…
- drawbar or a closer, for a lathe that sees collets twice a year
Twice a year, keep the drawbar and make it a real one. A closer pays when you're changing collets every ten minutes. He isn't.
- rotary or a vfd, garage, 3hp that already lies
Ken, 'fine for a year' is not a wiring practice. Harold, if you can read the nameplate, do the VFD and pull the drum switch out of the moto…
- compound screw, because buying one felt like losing
Label's right. Make it. Then if the nut is just as worn, you did the easy half. Check the nut before you congratulate the screw.
- brass, zero rake, I still grabbed it once
The fourth part was sticking out farther, or the tool dropped a hair below center. A zero rake tool below center will dig. Check the sticko…
- the lathe walked during a facing cut
Also your tool was rubbing or digging. An 8 inch face on a 9 inch is not where you prove manhood. Smaller DOC, sharper tool, then talk abou…