Thread: Second Melbourne scraping class reflections

Originally Posted by Greg Q

My wheel has about 3 mm of "material" on the rim, which I expect is about par for those $35 ebay wheels. I have used it to shape about ten carbide tips, sharpen the cat's claws, and touch up a couple of old cemented carbide lathe tools. I expect that it will last another 45 years at my rate of use.

Those real diamond wheels like Phil has cost more than my car. (not my wife's car). Just discovered that I cannot do smileys on this infernal pad thang.

Friday I start tool reconaisance in HK. Pete F has given me his cheap Indian tap vendor's details, so now I'll be set. Well, as soon as I make an EDM.

GQ

Gregory,

I would have thought that with Pete's experience in broken tap removal he would have developed a simple extraction technique, something a bit more basic than an EDM. I also though he had been purchasing the taps direct from Mumbai in an effort to avoid the Chinese middleman's inflated pricing.

BT

Thanks boys, I am feeling better now. That Venus caper has all of us shaking our heads at the shear scope of the stupidity involved. Venus is lesson 101 in night flying, not something you react to when in an actual mofo airliner. Jeez.

Pete is probably going to get thingy with me over my jibe about his punjabian taps. Just kidding Pete...

Trip after this will be with my step daughter which will mean fashion, and lots of it. So tools are going to be my May mission. Reconaisance this weekend, of which I shall report upon my return.

Greg gwai lo