Something New to Twiddle While I Watch Machining Videos

April 7th, 2009

Oh Rapture

I have a knurling tool!

Actually, I have a whole quick change toolpost set. It arrived today. But to me, the knurling tool is the coolest part. You mash it into a part as it turns, and you get checkering all the way around!

But I still have no lathe.

Come on, freight truck.

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4 Responses to “Something New to Twiddle While I Watch Machining Videos”

  1. Elisson Says:
    April 7th, 2009 at 7:38 PM

    I know a bunch of Canadians who would love a knurling tool…something to sharpen those brooms they use to sweep the ice when they shove them stones on it…knurling, yeah, that’s it…

  2. skating on glue Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    Way off topic, but did you see this?:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090408/ts_afp/israelreligionjudaism

    Thought it might interest you.

  3. El Capitan Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    I ran across an old blogpost of mine regarding lathes. Thought it might be a help. Always keep one hand securely attached to your lathe chuck key until it’s safely back in the toolbox! I got a suspension for punching the guy that launched one at me, it was well worth it…

    “While I’m thinking about shop class, you might want to know that a chuck key that’s remaining in a machine lathe’s 3-jaw chuck when the juice is turned on at a high-RPM setting will depart the chuck and traverse the entire length of the shop at approximately Mach 2 before imbedding itself in the garage door. The sound it makes as it passes over your head while you are bent over adjusting the cut-off saw is remarkably similar to a boomerang being thrown by a bodybuilding steroid-addicted aborigine. The screams of the idjit who launched the key are remarkably similar to a little girl’s, when you are pounding on his face.

    Nothing makes steel rust faster than blood… My old shop teacher had a standing rule about blood on the machinery. He said if you lost a hand on a lathe or milling machine, use the remaining hand to wipe down the precision surfaces before you passed out. Otherwise, he’d remove your testicles.”

  4. Bill P Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 7:12 PM

    You might find this fellow’s site useful:

    http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/index.html

    Bill P

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