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Ok thanks Jason , I’m not familiar with that brand .

To me looking at the finish and zooming in on the photos the finish looks to be tearing and the tip looks like the radius is gone - when things go awry i look at this first ,Its a simple thing to change and check .

Ian.

Hope like hell it isn’t an unbrako - that usually means using carbide tooling !

Has anyone zoomed in on the insert tip ? Looks chipped to me and if it is no amount of feed rate change will make it work . I typed in greenwood type 1 insert into google and couldn’t see anything of use , in have had issues recently with cheap inserts that won’t cut anything and i put it down to dodgy inserts .

If you need to do things on a tight budget stick with HSS otherwise be prepared to fork out for known quality carbide inserts - the cheap junk isn’t worth it , been there done that got burnt !

As tragic as it is losing one of the worlds icons / treasures and many of the pieces of art and artifacts within thankfully no one died !

We had our ( fortunately) now ex Leader here in OZ come out and ask for a fund to be set up to rebuild it even though we could use that money for Hospitals , Education and probably a million other things we desperately need here - the guy is a di@# head and thank god he is gone !

Before drilling or doing anything drastic you could try inserting a suitable pin punch into the hex hole and give it wrap with a hammer - don’t belt it to death just a sharp wrap , this can relieve the pressure on the grub screw.. I have also drilled most of the way through and used a piece of steel rod that has been turned down to fit into the hole and held it in place with high strength retaining fluid ( loctite) , let it dry for a day and give the rod a twist with a pair of vise grips .

Try the other end of the insert or a new insert and see if it improves , make sure the tool is on centre .

Here is one that can help you to identify different types of steel , this is a re dub of an older video Marc made as the audio on the original was not good . I like the bouncing glass ball idea !

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I have in the past had the fold out nozzle leak and thats why i keep the good ones as it is easy to change them over , the old style nozzle uses a thicker valve spigot so i drill out the hole for this on the fold out type nozzle to fit . The most economical way to buy the stuff is the 5 lt bottle then use one of those little trigger pump bottles to apply it , you can also fit the tube off the can into the end of the trigger bottle nozzle if you drill the hole out in the nozzle .

One interesting thing with WD40 and RP7 i discovered recently while testing various fluids as cutting fluid for parting off steel , WD40 works well if you keep the fluid dripping in there fairly constantly and half way through one parting operation using WD40 on steel i switched to RP7 and the blade seized instantly - why I don’t know and probably never will .

I would be a little suspicious of a tool that is half the price of the others , best thing you can do is go to the shop and have a look at it . Check for things like side play in the arms also if the knurling wheels run true and the teeth are nicely formed . Be wary of pictures of the tool as they can be made to make the tool look better than what the tool really is . The side play can cause problems when you want to do a long knurl as it allows the wheels to cock sideways and this can effect the finish . I have a knurling tool that came with my qctp and the wheels have so much run out they are more like little cam lobes than wheels !

You could also make your own tool and buy the wheels .

I bought a few off Amazon at what i think was a reasonable price , turned up a day late and they refunded the shipping !

Here in Sydney Australia i think Gameco still sell them .

I might be missing something but from what i have heard on the news and read about it it seems the only things they found of the man was his trousers and skull , how do they determine that he was stomped on by an Elephant then eaten by lions with such little evidence ? There is the possibility that he was killed by another poacher and even the rangers have to be alert and careful that the poachers they are tracking don’t shoot them .

Do i feel sorry for this guy -no he was killing a nearly extinct animal for profit and the animals killed him to protect themselves - at least they eat what they kill !

In this video about the acute sharpening system from Eccentric Engineering Gary shows a simple trick to set up thin disks in a three jaw chuck , how many times i have stuffed around with parallels and the like and all i needed was a bigger disk 🤬. Look around the fifteen minute mark in the video .

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I have a 50sq x 40 mm thick neodymium magnet and i treat that one with respect i can tell you ! I was using it to hold something in place for welding and was returning it to shelf where it lives , as i walked past my steel workbench ) not paying attention as usual ) the hand carrying it got close enough for the magnet to pull my hand into the bench and clamp it there ! It was like i had belted my hand with a lump hammer !

Borat does welding !

I wonder which version (footware or clothing ) came first ?

On a more serious note i was once stick welding a broken car seat frame for a friend and i was starting to chip the slag off and the next thing i hear a crash followed by screaming - he had turned up in bare feet and was standing a few meters away , a piece of slag had landed between his toes and proceeded to burn its way into his foot !

With welding the ray burn ( same as sunburn only it burns deeper ) is only one concern as it also causes skin cancer so proper welding gloves , welding jacket ( leather type ) or heavy cotton overalls ( coveralls ) , trousers ( old pair of jeans are good ) and leather boots ( I wear steel cap boots ) never wear runners ( joggers ) as hot metal or slag will burn straight through them .

one tip with the jeans , coveralls or other trousers is if they are too long and you need to roll the legs up roll them up so excess is on the inside of the trouser leg so it doesn’t create a catch point for sparks and slag to fall into .

How many times have you put a hacksaw blade on backwards and only realised it when it wont cut , i worked out the other day that coping saws work better if i put the blade on so it cuts pulling the saw towards me - takes The springiness of the frame out of the equation !

i was turning a piece last weekend and it wasn’t going well ended up I hadn’t tightened the clamping lever on my QCTP . I was also using the tailstock centre to set the tools on centre but for some reason it kept changing ,one tool would be too low next tool on centre and it ended up that the centre was just sitting in there and every time i moved the tailstock the centre changed position a small amount !

There are others but i feel i have shamed myself enough for one day !

Murphys law for model engineers :

if it takes days or weeks to make a part it will only stuff up on the last operation !

If it has to be shiny you will polish it to perfection then drop it damaging the finish !

if it is to be painted you will choose a day of low or little wind but this will change by the time you finish painting it and a hurricane will appear out of nowhere !

The more determined you are not to lose something the quicker it will disappear !

All springs can fly and always further than you think !

and the list goes on .

I only ever wear my safety thongs for welding !

You can use Blu tack to hold the wires as well , just set them up on the thread and pinch them between thumb and forefinger then with the other hand stab a glob of Blu tack on one end of the wires , plasicine also works as does the centre out of a fresh slice of bread rolled up into a ball just make sure you clean and oil the wires after as they will rust - don’t ask how i know this , i just do 😳

If you need a simple gauge to check the angle of the point of a drill bit you are grinding you can use two hex nuts clamped together flat to flat , this gives you a vee with 120deg inc angle - close enough to 118deg to get you by .

I found recently that the WD40 cans that come with the fold out nozzle / tube this cap will fit the old style cans if you drill out the hole in the actuator cap for the can push valve tube to match the larger one on the old style spray cap. when you push the new cap on it will spray a little but push down on the actuator button and it will click into place and stop spraying - i know you get a tube with the old style cans but it is not as long as the fold out one and always seems to fall out and get lost . Still experimenting with this stuff for a cutting fluid when parting off steel - so far I can’t fault it !

If you have an old ipad , iphone or android phone that still works don’t throw it out instead reset it or at least delete as many things off it as you can that you don’t want laying around or could get into the wrong hands and then download a few of the apps that are available for machining and engineering and keep this in the workshop as your little machinists calculator !

Cheap plastic magnifying devices ( magnifying glass) are a godsend if your eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be , i leave a few laying around for reading the markings on drill bits and taps and if you get the ones with a little light built in its even better !

I use magnets to hold the leather cover i use on my lathe bed when machining cast iron but i soon got tired of cleaning the magnets afterwards , i use some little ziplock bags and place the magnet inside , once I’m done i take the magnet out of the bag and the cast iron chips fall off the bag into the bin and a quick wipe cleans the bag for re use . I use a magnet in the handle of my chip brush to stick it to my lathe belt guard as well - works a treat !

A few years ago i went into Blackwoods ( industrial supply store here in Australia   to buy some stuff for work and was discussing the difference between brands of spanners and sockets and how the names like Sidchrome and Stanley had fallen from grace , the guy behind the counter went out into the little tool display section they had and grabbed a few different brands of the same size open end / ring spanner and returned to the counter with them . He had a Sidchrome , a Kinchrome and a JBS ( Blackwoods own brand ) he asked me to pick the difference and the only thing i could see that was different was the name on them , he then explained that they are all made in the same factory ( at the time these were all made in Taiwan ) and the only difference was the name stamped on them and the price . Sidchrome being the most expensive and all had the same warranty , never bought Sidchome again and these days i but total tools brand and have found them to be pretty good and with good warranty service .

I can’t remember if it was Sutton or P&N drill bits i have that i noticed were made in N.Z .

Just don’t buy any drill bits that are made in Queensland as they are all bent 🍌 !

Edited By XD 351 on 04/04/2019 15:33:34

Here is a useful tool you can make using the magnets you have collected .

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