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Gee you don't mess around do you Greg. Nice work.
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Cost Ken Cost. Would be nice to have newer technology but it comes with a hefty price tag. The inserts for these are dirt cheap (even in Canada) and do what I need, mostly rough work. Actually this cutter got put in when one of the screws twisted off in my 1 1/4 - R8 shank Polish cutter. Doubt if its worth tracking down the odd headed left hand thread screws it uses, will probably get another tool, that one owes me nothing.
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Looked nasty glad your able to fix it
It was only two months ago I was doing the same on a disability scooter but all went smooth
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(12-18-2014, 09:41 PM)f350ca Wrote: Cost Ken Cost. Would be nice to have newer technology but it comes with a hefty price tag. The inserts for these are dirt cheap (even in Canada) and do what I need, mostly rough work. Actually this cutter got put in when one of the screws twisted off in my 1 1/4 - R8 shank Polish cutter. Doubt if its worth tracking down the odd headed left hand thread screws it uses, will probably get another tool, that one owes me nothing.
I understand that. I keep my eyes on eBay (have "saved search") and get killer deals on quality tools. What I've found is that the newer insert milling cutters have such better grades and geometry that you don't need "dirt cheap" inserts because they just last so much longer. I have indexed the 8-corner hexagonal inserts in my 2" & 3" face mills ONCE in the past year. Got six edges left.
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Greg,
Ditto on the nice work. I have run exactly one Polish lathe that was re-badged by a Miami machine tool dealer. It was a very good machine and at the time costing much less than one from China that did not have near the capacity or ability to hold tolerances.
Most especially glad you were not injured.
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12-19-2014, 02:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2014, 02:08 PM by dallen.)
installed the parts that Ken (aka Pixman) made for me.
heres a shot of them on the rifle that I've been tinkering with for the last couple of months. Still got a ways to go before I can prove it works.
![[Image: tang-sight-on-rifle2.jpg]](http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd484/Superdave257/tang-sight-on-rifle2.jpg)
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![[Image: tang-sight-on-rifle2.jpg]](http://s1222.photobucket.com/user/Superdave257/media/tang-sight-on-rifle2.jpg.html)