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very easy to sharpen drills...keep point centered, same angle on both side. keep it cool. if you burn it with grinding wheel it will weakin that part of drill. also make sure you have clearance so it wont rub more then cut.

look at a 1/10 losi chassis or rc10gt. they are aluminum not much more then .062 thick. for a losi peewee then i would think .062 would be fine. just add some braces for front. Once it is all together i bet it wont flex. bolt on tranny, motor mounts and servo plate for mounting servos you...

I use drill point gage every day. but never use the protractor part. just spent the extra couple dollars for a usable protractor.

This way is very affective. We make ares like this for work and they last long time. Im in the screw machine trade and we make the handle different lenghts. also put alot of torque on them as long as the weld for the handle holds.

Yeah a lathe or mill can be pretty dangerous no matter how much experience. Honestly i would never put lathe or mill tool holders any where you would have to reach over or around the spindles or chucks. even at work we have carts and a rack for chuck keys and stuff off to the side. nothing...

thats awesomeness....cant wait till the finished product. Is the other one i see in the pics for me. keep up the good work

no never though of the junk yards....

thanks guys...for the leads.

im more a looker then a poster....lol getting really good ideas from this forum

thinking maybe rock crawler, dune buggy typa thing... kinda looks like a modified roll cage without body but the high bar thing throw that out.

Hey i dont remember if i ever did a interduction but i will do another. lol Name is Chris im from kcmo area. im currently in the screw machine line of work. mainly on Acme Grids...do setups repairs maintaince and everything in between. I love the line of work eeven thou it is a dying breed...

sorry...guess be helpful. Im in kansas City Mo. Iv gone to several metal shops but they said they dont carry that type stuff. more or less sheets flat bar rounds etc....but not alumnium block type stuff...

sweet...thanks Tin. I will check it out

Very nice shop....Would also like to know what is under the cover?

Im in need of some block alumnium for a motor i want to start. check around my local area and no one seemed to have. anyone no of a source in the US that can get small quanity for a descent price? thanks chris

if its 360 free cuttung brass you can crank up the rpm and feed the crap out of it, but brass is soft and grabby. if you get chatter you can dull out your tool or put atouch above center to let rub alittle. i work on multi spindles and we run brass at 400+ sfm

Well I'm new to the site but came acros this thread. I am a multi spindle operation, repair,setup guy alittle bit everything on acme gridley 6 and 8 spindle from 9/16 to 2 5/8. I love it to death. We run brass so cycle times are from 2.5 sec per part. Amazed at the amount of thoughts that went...