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Thanks for that ive purchased some 3mm stub drills.

I am also looking at getting a rotabroach that looks ideal as drilling large holes over 8mm is a nightmare with a bench drill.

Also would a v block help ive looked at warco and Chester drills but I'm worries

The table does not swivel to allow drilling opposite the handle.

I make moulds out of off cuts of stainless tube and i have found contact with fairy liquid which i use to stop the silicon sticking makes the stainless rust like mad 304 and even 316 gets rust spots.

I have also found that even 316 rusts where its been worked on cut drilled etc mostly

i have the die grinder jig for setting all the angles but do not have a surface grinder i often wonder if i could maybe touch them up by rubing a stone accross the top whilst there in the jig

i was taking a light cut on some oilon plastic rod when all off a sudden the tool seemed to grab and slice right through as the wheel span and the tool jammed into the chuck .

Is it commen practice to lock the saddle and use the gears to take the cuts so this cant happen never happened before.

the plastic did have a label stuck to it i thought it would not matter and it would just come off as i cut into it.

luckily i hit the clutch fast so no damage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhAT_OGDzg

I guess if you can salvage chasers from mixed sets and set them up in the jig and grind with a surface grinder all will be good as you have then created a matching set so long as the grinder takes a skim off all the chasers correct me if i am wrong please.

cheers yes i do use the lever but i might try taking lesser cuts 1st pass .my chasers are not the correct rake for stainless steel so might be hard on them i believe i should use am5 or as but i am just using the standard s20

I thread a lot of 8mm stainless 316 did a bar today and i noticed the 1st cm of the thread is just mashed like its been ground down the nut just slips over the end . I had to cut this off and re cut a chamfer on the thread afterwards is this because maybe chasers are not sharp enough cant figure out whats gone wrong.

the rest of the thread was ok just that 1cm was no good almost like a mm had been turned off the end

thanks

after a re grind using an eclipse 5/16 hss finally it works a treat now

this is how i have always faced plastic off with the carriage locked so no movement

Ive basically learn to use a lathe machining uhwmpe and stainless 316 not the best to learn on , Ive found hdpe acetel and delrin are easy to machine but uhwmpe is not very forgiving one mistake and it all goes wrong pulls out of the chuck as so slippy tools will dive in pulling it out of the chuck as well.No swarf sometimes facing you just get one big lump of goo forming .