Thread: How to go broke and some hot boring action.

Originally Posted by .RC.

Don't worry, the door swings both ways...

You swing both ways?? Owww Kaaayyy!*


*... not that there's anything wrong with that. ... Just sayin'

Nothing wrong with sheep and cows...

Originally Posted by Pete F

True true. [sigh] I'll make whirring noises next time I use it and pretend instead. I am a bit of a pretender, or so I'm told

Richard knows how much I like horizontal borers and is just rubbing it in. I just pretend I like the guy so he'll post more Youtube video of it in action!

Here's one for you Pete, although you can't see much of it because the afternoon shift crew are covering most of it. Can you make out the logos on the pullovers and overalls?

There is also a smaller Shibaura in the background ( Grey machine on the right)

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So you have a long piece of steel to fit in the lathe but it will not fit down the spindle bore.. You need a centre hole in it for the tailstock end..

How on earth would you do it?

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Mark it out and drill by hand, drill it in a pedestal drill.

Originally Posted by .RC.

So you have a long piece of steel to fit in the lathe but it will not fit down the spindle bore.. You need a centre hole in it for the tailstock end.. How on earth would you do it? 20140924_131707.jpg

1. Swivel the Arboga RAD out and drill it. 2. Swivel the B/port turret out and drill it. 3. Swivel the Romanian mill head parallel to the table and drill it if it was too long for options 1 & 2. 4. Seeing as I know how to use primitive tools, I'd lay it out using a V scribe, centre pop it and drill it manually. After all it's not like, with a rough rusty POS like that bar, it's going to be really important to get the initial centre within 0.001" or better, is it? PDW

A month or more backed I snapped up some mills on ebay... It was a batch of 4 from 63mm to 100mm, the biggest was a 100mm Kennametal.. Came with a heap of inserts but they turned out to be all for aluminium.. Picked up some steel cutting Korloy inserts from China that fitted..

The face mills came with no arbours..

I managed to find a #4mt to 32mm face mill arbour and surprisingly it was in AU.. Of course when I got it, it turned out to be 1 1/4" rather then 32mm.. Easily fixed though, just turn it down a bit and fit a sleeve, then grind the sleeve to size between centres on the cyl grinder..

Fitted it to the travelling spindle, put some scrap 32mm plate on the table and see the results for yourself

Only goes for a minute..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...%20milling.mp4