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This is an issue for me with anonymous screen names and people not signing their real name to postings. Why are some afraid to sign a post with their real name?

Don Clement

I have a Sherline 10K rpm spindle with motor that has a threaded nose that accepts 3/8" tools in addition to a #1 morse taper with collets. Since the Speeder needs to be re-zeroed anyhow I think I...

Thanks. The speeder can accept 3/8" collets so it wouldn't be that hard to re-zero.

Don Clement

I would like to see a closed loop control where position depends not on the ball screw but on external linear encoders such as Heidenhain's LC115 Designworld - June 2013

Don Clement

How concentric is the Speeder Series 2 spindle with the host spindle?

Don Clement

+1 thank you.

Don Clement

thanks,

Have to try the integy.

Don Clement

Yep. In fact I think its a done deal. Only now I have to figure out how to move the 2.2K lb Sag12 into my small very cramped shop and move my 900lb 12x36 lathe out past the Tormach 1100.

Don...

Mike,

I have had very good luck with Bohdhus Amazon.com: bondhus allen and Wiha http://issuu.com/wihatools/docs/wiha_hex_tools_catalog?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed Allen wrenches but not any...

While waiting for the Tormach CNC lathe a friend has a Graziano Sag 12 Lathe available. Looks like a great upgrade for my Birmingham 12x36.

Don Clement

If Kurt vises are powder coated than I wish my Tormach 1100 had been also.

Don Clement

Yeah I knew you were poking fun. It seems anonymous posters can reinvent themselves at anytime trying to wipe out a burr incurred. ;-)

Don Clement

No.

Yeah most of the burrs will come off.

I run all of my parts in a BurrKing 200SX vibratory deburring machine for at least an hour. I use medium size plastic cone media about 1/2" across and it...

Mike,

My original prototype use button head socket screws, also used a cut up Stanley tape measure for the flexures. I just paid the 11.5 year maintenance fee to the USPTO. Some of the features...

If I were boasting I would be boasting about my focuser (made by me almost entirely on my Tormach) that was used last month on the Palomar Hale 200” telescope at prime focus F/3.3.

Telescope...

Mike,

Another method that works well for me in machine threading on my Tormach for threading holes larger than 4-40 is to thread mill. IIR a there was a post about a hybrid threadmill that could...

Mike,

My experience in tapping 10s of thousands of holes with a Balax forming tap in 6061-T6 on my Tormach is NOT to use flood coolant. I use Relton A9 when using a form tap in Aluminum 6061-T6....

My Bad. I never think outside the box and am a poor job planner. Just not very Taylor labor efficient as my boss says. Oh wait I am the boss, the engineer, designer, inventor, patent holder,...

A Frederick Winslow Taylor devotee! Do you carry a stop watch with you at all times? You obviously don't use form taps because if you did you would know form taps leave a burr unless chamfered...

The Kurt vise is going on five years with no paint degradation so I must not be using it properly. ;-)

Don Clement

I use a spot drill before drilling the hole for the forming tap. The the spot drill allows not only for better centering when drilling but allowance is made for the chamfer so no burr is formed when...

Only tormach paint fails. paint on my Kurt vise looks new.

Don Clement

Mike,

With aluminum 6061-T6 you can use a Balax forming tap instead of a cutting tap. http://www.balax.com/catalog/thredfloer-taps/thread-forming-vs-cutting The main advantage for me in tapping...

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I have tapped 10s of thousands of blind holes in 6061-t6 aluminum using a Balax form tap with virtually no tap breakage. I use Relton A9 instead of flood coolant when tapping. Amazon.com: Relton...

Check out Kurt inner lock jaw system InnerLock® Jaw Plates - Kurt Workholding

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Don Clement

I use ground dowel pins that fit into hardened drill bushings for location on my fixtures. DRILL-JIG BUSHINGS, PRESS-FIT BUSHINGS, P Press Fit :: Carr Lane Manufacturing Co. I have designed parts...

Yes. A 60mm -0.75mm thread has been thread milled on the OD as shown.

Don Clement

Here is another part held in a 1.5” diameter 5C collet by only a 0.060” lip in an Eagle Rock 5C collet holder. In effect the 5C pot collet is a type of soft jaw that is machined to size.

Don...