Member postings for john steel 1

Dave its a leaf spring I want to cut long ways

Looks like the Dewalt is ideal for me they have a good name also. Thank you

Yes I do all that when cutting its not me, It is the discs very cheap ones, I need to know which ones people use that are good. Will have a look at Blue spot. Thanks for your replys

I bought a Makita grinder to cut steel then bought a pack of discs my problem is the discs grind down faster than the metal can any one recomend a good disc that will last while cutting a car spring length wise. It would maybe take one or two to do the job but better than useing 50 at the moment. Thank you for any help

Thanks Mike, arcevrotrade is perfect

These are the wheels I need to bore out the centre them epoxy the bearing in flush with the side Thank you for your kind replys

I have made a knife making grinder, that includes making my own wheels two 3" and one 4" my problem is finding bearings to insert into them, read somewhere that sliding door wheels are good but cant seem to find any that fit at a fair price about 1" with bore about 3/8 and I dont want to pay for the very expensive ones Any help in the right direction Thank you

Thank you for all your replys I new you would point me in the right direction

looking to buy some sort of white marking fine point pen for sheet metal, and looking on the net its a mine field looking at the Sarpie extra fine point it has bad write ups. Can anyone recomend some thing for under £10 I have scribers and every thing but I cant see the lines very well. Thank You

Thank you all for your kind replys, I use a waco major the old solid type, one broke cutting side on and the other cutting down like a drill both my fault as I am new to milling.

Hope this don't sound daft, but I bought some end mills yes they were made in china and they don't seem to last very long I have broken two with very little use. I would appreciate advice on better mills with out paying an arm and a leg and not made in China. I know its difficult and you get what you pay for but I am sure some one will point me in the right direction. Thank You

OK, At 88 years old my knife is not as sharp as it used to be, and the net is a mine field. tried to order on the there site but only a paypal button no card one so had to phone. Thank you for your kind replys

I bought a magnetic base lamp from Poolewood for £38.38, then noticed they could match anybody’s cheaper price, so I pointed out Amazon was £37 and yardles was £31.98, they refunded me £3.20 to match Amazon but when I pointed out Yardles to them again. This was there reply.

I am sorry we will cannot match yandles. They have a reputation of selling at cost or less to to make a sale. Their behavior is such that several suppliers are in negotiation to either sever ties or get them to price properly. We all have to make a living.

I am afraid the price we are at is the final price.

I won’t be using them again main reason you can’t phone them they don’t answer.

My idea was to mill it down to fit my Boxford. Thank you every one I will go ahead and buy it.

Has anyone bought this off amazon if so can they recomend it, or one made in the UK and not China.

Thank you for your replys, Duncan has put me off as I like things earthed

I was thinking of buying two of these lamps for my miller and grinder but they come with a EU plug if I put a 13amp plug on will the 240v blow the bulbs.

Thank you Noei,Baldic, and Clive, for your kind replies. I thought it would be a nice project to do but as I only wanted to make No 3 morse taper I think for the times I would use it Its not worth the trouble. So today I moved the tool post over and and turned the morse taper, and it fits my milling machine nperfect Thanks Again.

This taper attachment came with my Boxford lathe but had no fittings I was woundering if any one had made the cross slide bar to fit on the cross slide or any of the other fittings the other fittings seem easy to make but the cross slide one not so easy as I may have to remove the cross slide thread to use it.

Or a second hand one with out having to buy the full kit Thank You

With the new metric gauge its 0.20mm ether side of zero think the old gauge is no good