When it all comes together for musicians, they often say they are 'in the groove'. I've just had a couple of days 'in the groove' in my workshop.
Discovered a lovely little 0-1/4" Jacobs chuck picked up at a car boot for pence and forgotten about. realised I had a spare blank MT2 arbor and chuffed myself turning up a very nice 1/2" x20tpi nose and a perfect fitting register
At the same time also nice to find that a Dormer MT3-2 adaptor I found at a similar place and derusted is still spot on
Finally disassembled my 3-jaw chck and remove about half a teaspoon of fine (mostly brass!) swarf from inside. Regreased with Finish Line white teflon grease and tested with a bar of 1" brass and got 0.0004" runout
Turned up a few other small parts and realised just what a huge diference my QCTP makes when repeatedly switching tools, not least the parting off holder for a 1/16" blade – it happily parts 1" or more diameter to full depth
Sawing a chunk of alloy realised aging Irwin saw blade had no teeth to speak of… changed to a new Eclipse blade – knife through butter!
Taking 1/16" wide by 10mm deep climb-milled cuts on my X2, 40-thou deep, 11mm wide slots. Blue chips flying everywhere. Then boring 1 1/8" deep by 1 1/16" holes in an alloy blank. Got the cutter set right on my boring head first time and taking 2mm on diameter with each cut. Lookls like teh various mods to my X2 have really paid off
I'm sure normal service will be resumed tomorrow…!
Neil
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