[Dark Side]

what size step blocks do you guys use? looking at a pretty complete set of 7/16", but am wondering if that is too loose?

[Dark Side]

DISREGARD...found the answer.

[Scott_M]

Dark Side

I needed a second set and got this at Shars on sale for $32.35.
It is fairly decent quality.
shars.com


Scott

[kevinro]

DISREGARD...found the answer.

Just curious, what was your answer?

[tbaker2500]

42.

[Don Clement]

42.

Oh yes the Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. ;-)

Don

[Dark Side]

Ya, it's the good old 42. Most guys probably have them in their shop already. I think Enco sells them.

[tbaker2500]

:-)

[Don Clement]

Ya, it's the good old 42. Most guys probably have them in their shop already. I think Enco sells them.

Zaphod Beeblebrox has one in his shop.

Ford: You're looking for the Ultimate Question.
Zaphod: Yep.
Ford: You.
Zaphod: Me.
Ford: Why?
Zaphod: No, I tried that: Why? 42. Doesn't work.

[philbur]

Answering questions as well as asking them would greatly improve your ability to make friends and influence people.

Phil

Ya, it's the good old 42. Most guys probably have them in their shop already. I think Enco sells them.

[Scott_M]

Not without a good towel

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."

Scott

[zephyr9900]

Ford: You're looking for the Ultimate Question.
Zaphod: Yep.
Ford: You.
Zaphod: Me.
Ford: What size step blocks do you guys use?
Zaphod: No, I tried that: What size step blocks do you guys use? 42. Doesn't work.

Agrajag: Not again!

[Peter Neill]

Ford: You're looking for the Ultimate Question.
Zaphod: Yep.
Ford: You.
Zaphod: Me.
Ford: What size step blocks do you guys use?
Zaphod: No, I tried that: What size step blocks do you guys use? 42. Doesn't work.

Agrajag: Not again!

Absolutely brilliant

[zephyr9900]

I'm surprised Don didn't get there first.

I met Douglas Adams once, at a reading/signing at Cody's Books in Berkeley in 1981 or 1982 (Edit: Likely 1982, because that is the year "Life, the Universe and Everything" came out). He was inscribing books "Best wishes, Douglas Adams" but I asked him if he would inscribe mine "Don't Panic! Douglas Adams", which he was happy to do. Everyone behind me in line asked for the same thing. Sometimes I wonder if he took to inscribing his books "Don't Panic" after that, or if it was just a one-time thing...

Randy

[Peter Neill]

I got into HHGTG when it was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme " A Book at Bedtime" quite accidentally. I was 19 or so at the time, and my Mother used to listen to the BaBT show, and this was on when I went to talk to her at one time.
Completely hooked after that.

[shred]

I have one of the HHG books inscribed "go stick your head in a pig"

[zephyr9900]

That's way hoopier than mine was. :cheers:

Randy

[Don Clement]

My Tormach 1100 has 5/8” T slots; however the Tormach 8” RT, Rockwell mill and 5x7 tilting table have 7/16”T slots. I needed more 7/16” T nuts and found them at the local McFadden-Dale industrial hardware store. McFadden-Dale Home In fact McFadden-Dale sell the complete TE-CO line of tooling components sold as individual items. Tooling Components - TE-CO Today I was able to buy enough 7/16” T nuts and 3/8” flange nuts to fill in where the 7/16” clamping kit was missing.

Don

[zephyr9900]

I use the Te-Co 5/8" slot set (which is of very good quality), but having an early 3-digit (retroactively named) Series 1 where only the center slot was ground, I had to slightly grind the sides of the top, necked-down part of the T-nuts so they would freely fit the outer slots.

Randy

[Don Clement]

Randy,
Mine is also a Series I table but I only use the center slot for alignment purposes. The ground center slot works extremely well for me in perfect alignment of my Kurt D688 vise with vise keys (sorry Steve -the Kurt D688 vise does work extremely well on my Tormach 1100), Tilting table with vise keys, and 8” RT (vertical position). I also have a Te-Co 5/8” slot set that is very good quality compared to the import 7/16” slot set. BTW when I complained that the Te-Co slot set did not have a T slot cleaning key the salesman gave me an off-brand double ended T slot cleaning key in which I modified one end to clean the two outer drain slots on the 1100 table.

Don