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Incredible! :bow: Great work!!! love the sound that make at low speed! Saludos

Hi Picclock sorry but I dont undestrand you very well, lard... do you mean the...cooking stuff??? ??? (my english is more or less not good) about my tap making skills this is my frist tap I ever made, I have to ask for advice in the hardening subjet to archieve the tap making, I dont know if...

Hi to all I got started with a boring head proyect, I got almost finished now, because I dont had the time to post it before.. The idea is to made a 54 mm boring head for my mill that accepts my 1/2" carbide boring bar set, with a MT3 shank, all in a 70 mm heigth. First the MT3 shank, the...

A set of 2n3055 transistors for a very loud 100w pc subwoofer proyect ::) Hey Milotrain I will love to see some pictures of your headphone amp!! :bow: Im also a tube lover and tube stuff amateur, And more that tubes I like almost all vintage styles: machines, amplifiers, old radios, hands...

I do the test on the silver steel! I heated up to the point there are not magnetic, hold the temperature for like 20 seconds then with all the speed that I can perform I turn off the torch, grab the piece and quench it the piece in water: cant done anything with the file, then I use the...

Thanks a lot for the responses! I will make the test to see what type of silver steel I got! I will do the file test first and then the hammer fun! For the kitchen oven temper, Im too young to get married yet, actually still living with my parents, but sure my mom will love "motor oiled tap in...

do you mean by appropriate liquid.. that the fact on use water or oil depends extrictly on what type or silver steel I got?? That mean that if I got, lets said, the water type and use oil to quench, the result will be a poor hardered tool??? how can tell what type of silver steel I got? Saludos

Thanks for the quick responce gbritnell! I know that are 3 types, but mine I puscashed just for silver steel, so I dont know what of those type are, and I don't believe that the seller know either jaja has to be the more common I think there is a way to tell the diference?? like the sparks...

Hi to all Time has come and I need to make a custom tap for my boring head, in question is a M8x0,5 For this step I made a lot of reserach, in this forum and the net, but all I can get is a confusing 1000 metods to archieve the hardening process some are extreme simple like "heat to...

Incredible!! :bow:

Hi DaveH! great info! Im just curious, but how bad are if you not clean the chips during cutting? I have a manual machine (mini mill) and cuting get my two hands bussy with the feed and lubricant, if I want to clean the chips I need to stop the machine and clean with a vacuum cleaner, so just...

here is mine, just shot today, I was making a boring bar that hold a round hss bit, miraculously I got the just space to drill and reamer the hole, just 5 mm higher and my mini-mill cant make it ::) still more coming I hope! Saludos

Hi to all! I been thinking for a while, but I can figure how to get rid off my limitations with my mini-mill to make some large dovetails for some proyects that I have in mind this is a rather distant.... I have in mind to make a small bench top multi-purpose grinder machine, the idea is a...

well, not sure if it help, but if i have to machine a piece like this i just cut the center hole first, then mount a shaft in the lathe that fit the hole an put the piece in the middle of the shaft with a locking screw (the other extreme of the shaft in the live center), im not sure if i say it...

i had the warco version of the minimill, the 550w i think, but mine is Einhell, very good machine, but still a chinese machine, is like a blank machine, lots of mods and thinks to take care, the sieg mini mill seems more well made that mine, is just my opinion, is a great machine to learn!, and...

hi to all i got a 0-50 mm starrett mic head that i want to transform intro a micrometer stop for my lathe but im worried because the carriage have lots of inertia and i think that the constant punches of the carriage stoping at the micrometer will may ruin the threads inside and made the mic...

thanks for all the responses! Steamer: thanks for the advice! i stop scraping the mill to revaluate the situation my porcelanate plate is a experiment, i was trying to find a economic replace for a granite plate, here i find a 40x60 granite plate (the same thats sold grizzly) but overpriced...

i have checked the gibs a lot, also made a brass one for the y axis a long time ago, they shows a tiny line of contact too, like this: to solve that i have made a new one on brass, sanding, replasing the set screws, adjust a lot and all the times is the same result. how i cant comprobate...

hi to all! time as come to correct the poor´s dovetails of my mini mill, how i know that they are poor? when i disarm the table for cleanup and lub i notice that just a tiny line of the contact surface shows wear of use, then i check with my surface "porcelanate" plate if the middle piece of...

flying workpiece rip off the vise ???