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?
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?
DISREGARD...found the answer.
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
www.sdmfabricating.com
42.
Ya, it's the good old 42. Most guys probably have them in their shop already. I think Enco sells them.
:-)
Not without a good towel
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Scott
www.sdmfabricating.com
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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
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.
I have one of the HHG books inscribed "go stick your head in a pig"
That's way hoopier than mine was. :cheers:
Randy
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
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
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