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[HTRN]

Probably going to order another set, from somebody else who will hopefully ship faster.

Wait till January - nothing gets done till after the holidays.

[Vonz90]

https://www.meforum.org/62890/obscene-islamists

[blackeagle603]

Well that was fun. San Diego ==>> Great Falls Mt == San Diego.

Made it in between weather systems. Got a wee bit sporty pulling a trailer leaving Great Falls and getting through to Helena Monday,. Snowed that night and was still coming down a bit. Monida Pass was down to one lane but mostly at speed on the drive north Sunday. Was windy and mostly dry on the way south.

[Netpackrat]

The Joe Pie style tailstock die holder turned out fairly well. The handles are made from 5/16" drill rod threaded 1/4-28 and just long enough that they still clear the cross slide. Body is 4140 pre-hard, and the guide rod is 5/8" drill rod which is the biggest that will fit in my drill chuck. I am probably going to mill wrench flats into the handles near the body of the holder and finish it up with cold blue.



Mounted in the tailstock with a die installed. Until the correct dies that I ordered arrive, I can only use this to cut left handed threads....



Threading a scrap piece of brass rod.

[HTRN]

Buy a blank Morse taper arbor, turn to size, then you can eliminate the chuck, and install directly in the tailstock.

https://www.victornet.com/tools/Blank-M ... rs/20.html

[Netpackrat]

Buy a blank Morse taper arbor, turn to size, then you can eliminate the chuck, and install directly in the tailstock.

https://www.victornet.com/tools/Blank-M ... rs/20.html

I looked at doing that as my first choice, but all of the blank MT3 arbors I saw were fairly short, and I had the 5/8" drill rod on hand. I might still make an MT arbor for it later on.

[MiddleAgedKen]

I'm the furthest thing from an expert in these matters, but that looks like a right scholarly piece of work and the explanations and photos are educational too.

[Netpackrat]

I'm the furthest thing from an expert in these matters, but that looks like a right scholarly piece of work and the explanations and photos are educational too.

You might like the video I based it on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQdxMRqjLA

[Vonz90]

Merry Christmas!

[Netpackrat]

I made a bunch of these whistles out of 6061t6 to give my kids and all the nieces and nephews for Christmas. Trimmed them to exact length in the lathe using a collet stop and 5c collet chuck, and using a collet block and vise stop for repeatable setup in the mill, once I made the milling cuts on the first one, I was able to just go to the same numbers on the DRO for each successive unit, so it went a lot more quickly than it otherwise would have.

AlaskaTRX is vowing revenge.