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LostMachine In reply to oldgringo [2007-07-01 00:57:46 +0000 UTC]

Hell I can make 1/2" hogging cuts as long as I use butter, real butter not the fake margarine stuff, then it might bog down ; )

It'll do .1" in Al without a problem.

I'd like a bridgeport but my shop is too small.

LM

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oldgringo In reply to LostMachine [2007-07-01 01:48:57 +0000 UTC]

haha, damn margarine with is .00001 rockwell!

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LostMachine In reply to oldgringo [2007-07-01 05:26:40 +0000 UTC]

I bought a set of drill bits today. The guy showing them off at the trade show drilled through a Rockwell 67 file with the bit.

I was impressed, enough to buy a set.

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oldgringo In reply to LostMachine [2007-07-01 05:44:06 +0000 UTC]

Nice, must be some kind of coating on the drills? Or carbide, oh i love carbide. Embarassing story alert, just the other day...I was running a horizontal cnc mill, wanted to rapid out with a 1.250 indexable carbide drill coolant thru spindle, rapided out press x- instead of z-...made the $300 dollar drill bit look like a bannana. boss wasnt happy, hehe

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LostMachine In reply to oldgringo [2007-07-04 10:39:25 +0000 UTC]

Ouch, that had to hurt.

I took my TIG to school for a project this year. There wasn't an outlet in the shop for it so the electrician hardwired it in for me. He blew the transformer. I took it to get fixed on Monday, I suspect it will run me $500-$1000. I wasn't there when he blew it and he is already claiming that there was no way to know it worked when I brought it in.
I'll try to get the school to pay the bill but i doubt it will happen.

Here is the bits I got
[link]

You might also dig this, I'm making a table right now, but also messing around with the web cam in the shop.

[link]

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