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Milling cutters come in standard sizes, your machine only needs 4 or 8 (16mm is the largest) if you go both metric and imperial. However they put the head right down on the job and it's hard to see whats going on.

I tried that with an unknown rod previously used on an exhaust manifold, which it did fine.

No pre-heat, run a bead then another on top (only 16dp) mount the gear cutter on the mill and ----- knock knock etc killed the cutter. Can't really file it either, grinder took forever. So yes you can weld it with the right rod or else... The rods work at a lower current than steel ones, but in the UK 99% nickel rods are £8 for two rods, then you need a cutter £20 ish. Assuming you already have an arbor to mount it on, a stick welder and a dividing head.

Or.

As Noel is suggesting. You get another 21 tooth gear with matching DP and PA, trepan out the centre, turn all the teeth off the busted gear to match the id of your new/old gear ring and loctite 603 the two together.

Highways would call that managing the flow of traffic, I call it a work experience day in the control room.

It's worse when you get close to a blank gantry @ 70 and you see the 50 flick up on the next one. Ruins the next fortnight for you.

All I would say is does that design put any part of you underneath the table?

No need to, they use them anyway.

You can save an Ebay search and get it to email you when one gets posted so you don't have to continuously check.

Might be something in here

That lecturer was no JFK and still no helicopter flight to the summit.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win

Craft paper is not a vapour barrier either. There are other Rockwool products, one for ground floors has tissue on one face.

With respect, it would tell me not to spend money on it if it went say 10thou out.

What runout does the arbour show?

The drive pullies will show more than 1 thou runout and the belts won't care.

BTW there are some £25 gear cutters out there that have a lot more run out than that.

When you cleaned the bearing did you spin it dry on the shaft? Damaged ones will catch.

Whats the end float on the shaft?

Edited By Dave Halford on 01/01/2022 17:47:43

Only at the truing point, as the jaws move further out to where there might be less wear will they not go out of true?

John,

If those jaws are hard ones then using the least worn of the 4 possible clamping faces and using a known pre turned round bar test how much run out the chuck has.

If they are soft jaws, which I hope they are, true them up and using a known pre turned round bar test how much run out the chuck has.

The chuck scroll may be bad as well.

HID's have to auto adjust and they are not as common as you think.

My father said the same thing (though not HID's) and we put it down to the join in his bifocals flaring. Now I get similar trouble with head light glare so it may be old eyes after all.

The BS0 100mm centre height size is still pretty heavy.

Universals tend to loose their gear sets and weigh even more.

Don't forget it's your headroom - 100mm - 40mm = what size range you can cut on a horizontal.

Edited By Dave Halford on 28/12/2021 11:49:20

You need to watch that 10% rule. Toyotas read 10% high, which is why you gat flashed by irate drivers assuming you are a speeding maniac while they trundle along at 63. That's also why trucks pass you in 50mph road works zones.

However speedos vary from maker to maker, for ex my Jeep reads spot on speed. Some council run cameras are quite leinent like the French one mentioned earlier, others are spot on. Smart motorway ones are average speed so slow down a lot and you might get away with it.

Living above your workplace will do that, and you obviously missed out on the team building jollies.

I've chipped the tip pinging the ally weld off it.

Bad luck Michael,

Must rank as one of the fastest thread highjacks yet.

+ one on this.

There was a day when the news was impartial and the facts were reported, now we get opinions from the news teams that are quite partisan.

To be honest the last time I was at work and attended a meeting with food provided I had no idea that I was in fact at a party.