Finished off a couple of jobs this evening.

First was to mill a 6mm wide slot 3.2mm deep along a length of ø30mm round stock.  I've had this sitting on the mill for about a month, whilst I was waiting on a 6mm solid carbide endmill to arrive.  I had gotten about 150mm done at a depth of about 1mm with a HSS endmill which was going nicely before it quickly changed colour before my eyes.  

The solid carbide one cut so much nicer and so much quicker.  I think I did two passes of 1.5mm depth in the time it took me to do the 150mm slot with the HSS endmill.  This bar is to align all the parts inside the apron of my lathe, so that I can slide the feed shaft in behind it and have everything lined up.  The feed shaft a over 2m in length, so this will be much easier having this bar in there, all ready to push out.  Not a good pic - sorry.

   

Second was to slit a bush I made for a friend.  He is building a new bicycle and needed an adaptor for the seat post and a commercial one in the right diameters isn't available.  I made this several weeks back and gave it to him to check the fit before I put the slit in it.  I started the aforementioned job in the meantime, hence the delay.

   

Final two pictures of how I pack the jaws on my vise if I am working over on one side.  I cannot remember if I posted this before but the recent video by Steve made me think to show them.  I took some wheel nuts and wheel bolts and screw them together to make cheap and effective machinist jacks.  Combined with some blocks I have it makes packing easy.