Nice lil’ HSS score

[Antman]

In this part of the World some things are relatively/really expensive e.g. machine tools. A slowly progressing novice, I am having better results with HSS and coolant, after having tried 1 carbide tip tool, I was given, but finding it good for boring, so I was happy to find some HSS cheaper than what I would have to pay for 1 cutoff toolbit I wanted.

1 piece 8x8x100mm (what I normally use)
2 round 8x100mm
2 tapered 3mm cutoff blades 21mmx130mm
and the cherry etc
10 little bits of square 4x40mm

all new old stock. I know I want to use the round stock for screwcutting, any suggestions for the other HSS? I have been looking at pics of toolholders for HSS but the shaper is cutting very badly.

Sorry, I guess, for not posting but we’ve been busy with moving my Mom’s stuff, which gave me only a chance of finding my stuff in the big city… Also the computer’s been crashed… also I’ve made a couple of things on the lathe and shaper when it was still ok.

Ant

 

[Artie]

Hi Ant, just where is your part of the world? It doesnt say anything on your posting? ???

 

[websterz]

Hi Ant, just where is your part of the world? It doesnt say anything on your posting? ???

My Spidey Sense tells me that he's from South Africa.

:bow:

 

[Antman]

Hi Artie and Web,
Ja, sunny Sarf Efrica, Home of the soccer World Cup this year, a small town in the Free State on the Lesotho Border. I’m nowhere near to building small engines yet, still working in 12” to 1 foot scale, things for my Atlas 7 and lathe. My lathe seems much like the Grizzly 9x19 at about twice the price. I’ve made a hand cranking arrangement using a very nice handle, from some old machine, I found in the scrapyard and a pulley system, using the pulleys supplied with the lathe, that halves the slowest original speed of the lathe. Next up making a QCTP using a CI front end tractor weight. Living in a small town has some advantages, I got the tractor weight just for asking, also some 50mm EN8, some offcut 10mm and 15mm plate and a round piece 25mm thick by 160mm that I’m hoping to use for a faceplate. My biggest issue at the moment is what has happened to the shaper. I was making nice smooth surfaces, now it seems to be tearing at the workpiece, a sudden change.