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Thread: Bending HSS
20/09/2010 09:59:51
what does he use for quenching?
Thread: A strange fluid
19/09/2010 18:53:05
Cheap fun here... I have complete sympathy for the Editor, I make spelling and all kinds of mistakes ALL the time!
Thread: Bending HSS
19/09/2010 09:19:34
Sure you can bend HSS, its like any other steel, but you need to follow makers advice on heat treating!
 
Files are queched in mercury I belive to recieve optimum hardness. Ive been told modern HSS of some makes can be red hot w o loosing hardness or get microscopic cracks. Ask the manufacturer!
Thread: What are you building?
18/09/2010 20:14:42
 
Have a look at that page Costas, mabe that´ll do?
 
I really like the shaper you are making!
Thread: Amberley 2010
18/09/2010 19:34:52
Im fowarded to an album titled Amberley 2008?
Thread: What is the truth about "Tich"and "Minnie"?
18/09/2010 15:49:34
Is the Tich a scale model or a freelance?
Thread: Filing Machine
18/09/2010 07:13:07
Not as accurate in corners...
17/09/2010 12:25:22
Yes, Ive read about those, and been looking if such bands are still made, but found none. A diamond inpregnated band would be good for some things I belive!
Thread: A strange fluid
17/09/2010 12:16:10
Dielectric is the correct word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric
Thread: Filing Machine
16/09/2010 06:34:14
I would reccomend people to get a sample or look in the online version of the Brownell´s catalog, its an American gunsmith suplier; they have long narrown files with different cuts. Such files wouldl be ideal for making die filer files out of!
 
Also, yesterday I recieved a tool catalog from 1961, I collect such items. In it were a pic of a filing machine that had a 260mm filing disk (steel) with an edge of maybe 50mm depth, it had variable speed around 100-300 rpm. Would be a nice thing to have for big stuff!
 
And to digress terribly, the price of the top of the line Myford S7 was 3000SEK, today the same is 115,000SEK (Connoseur Long Bed). A calulator told me the equal value of 3000SEK is 31.598SEK today (£2885)

Edited By Axel on 16/09/2010 06:35:09

15/09/2010 20:20:25
Thanks thats great to see! I´ll make that one day for sure! I just met someone who can melt tons of metal at the time in his furnaces, so maybe I can make a scaled up model and have it as a sculpture in the garden...life is full of decisions!
Thread: south bend lathes, old machinery
14/09/2010 18:15:49
14/09/2010 17:48:14
Went to look at a job offer today, the man is a friend of my dad real nice man. First thing I say was an old lathe in a corner covered with heavy dust and srcap of all kinds, very neglected. Took a step closer and idetified it right away, asked what he payed and where It came from: "from a university and it cost £455....is it good?" Yes its a Weiler Condor!
 
I looked it over, a small chip was missing in the bed near the head stock, and he addmited to not securing it when moving it in so it had fallen over and the chip tray took a dent...the bed looked like it wasn´t worn alot, I tested the carriage by tightening the lock screw and sliding it back and forth. I know the ppl at the university in question are good mechanics so its probably been serviced once in a while too.
Thread: gundrilling, and old ME articles sought
14/09/2010 13:08:38
It describes how to drill ream and rifle a bore.
Thread: Filing Machine
14/09/2010 11:28:20
Posted by Charles on 14/12/2009 11:15:02:
The die filer on the cover OF MEW 155 was made by me.  It was made from a set of castings in aluminium which is the preferred material as one has been made locally in cast iron and the extra reciprocating weight had it leaping about like a kangaroo.  If anyone wants I can supply a crude sketch showing the essential dimensions and photos of the patterns used. 

 Best design I´ve seen so far, it really lit my "tool lust" that one!

Thread: gundrilling, and old ME articles sought
14/09/2010 10:49:19
If the Editor allows I can reccomend a few texts on this subject, but I wont post them w/o consent, since they are gunbooks. The Editor removed links for such content before (and he has every right too).
14/09/2010 10:43:15
My point is that the barrel is the most hard to get part of a gun (its the most important part), and if you dont want too instruct people how to make them. It would be a good idea to not print articles that deals specifically about this, even though its a process that is useful for many other things than gunmaking! 
 
 
Thread: south bend lathes, old machinery
14/09/2010 10:19:05
Thanks, SB 9" is in my pov the best small lathe made so far!
Thread: gundrilling, and old ME articles sought
14/09/2010 10:05:27
No intention of being a smartass, but publishing this goes really very much agains the policy not to have gun model´s in the mag....
 
 
Thread: Dangerous Practices
14/09/2010 10:00:16
Gawd people are trained to be so safe these days! C´mon let ppl be responsible for themselfs, If one thinks its unsafe, do it another way, don´t insult other peoples inteligence by telling everyone this or that is unsafe. Common sense, you´ve got it or you don´t, and if they dont they probably won´t learn from instructions!
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