Re: Grinding Shaper Tools
I have seen few over years.
All I use is a 6" bench grinder.
Dave
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davesmith1800
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#119014
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Grinding Shaper Tools
(I realize this is a minilathe group, not a shaper group, but there are
shaper owners on here, plus many ingenious people, so I'm forwarding this
post I sent to a shaper group).
One advantage of a
By
Miket_NYC
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#119013
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Machined Knurl
Machining a strait knurl is an easy and clean way to produce a knurl. It does however require a means of dividing such as using a dividing head of some type.
If one uses this method it is good to not
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OldToolmaker
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#119012
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
Knurling is ?¡°not¡± a cutting operation but a forming operation. Keep that in mind. Too much swarf is an indication of not enough force being applied and doesn¡¯t produce a clean knurl.
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OldToolmaker
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#119011
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
stuck at the wrong heigth by some chips ?
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Pierre-Raymond Rondelle
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#119010
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
The work diameter should follow the rules here:
< https://littlemachineshop.com/reference/knurler.php >
for the cleanest knurl. On the 7x lathes, a scissor type knurling tool usually gives better
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Roy
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#119009
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
Pull the knurl wheels a measure them . Knurling takes a lot of pressure
& sometimes? much more pressure then ya would think to make a good knurl
.Pressure also varies depending on the material yer
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mike allen
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#119008
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
It appears that one knurl is engaging deeper than the other. This one
direction gives a doubled knurl and the other a correct knurl.
wrote:
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Bill Williams
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#119007
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
I agree with OldToolmaker
You need cutting and aggressive.
Watch videos on screw machines doing knurling.
Dave
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davesmith1800
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#119006
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Re: What's happend to my knurling???
For successful knurl use the following steps.
1) Use cutting oil
2) Position the knurling tool as close as possible to headstock.
3) Switch lathe on and advance the knurling tool into the cut as
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OldToolmaker
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#119005
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What's happend to my knurling???
I made a knurld ring on my brass knob. but, as the result, something wrong with the knurld surface.
it's not even crossing each other. How can i solve this ?
i turned on my lathe with 240 RPM and fed
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creatisgood@...
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#119004
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Re: A rather useful tool
I have a Xerox laser printer and it is the only printer I know that does
not have duplex printing. I have really cheap HP printers all with duplex
printing.
To get duplex printing I have to manually
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Ralph Hulslander
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#119003
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Re: A rather useful tool
Last time I looked at an actual Xerox branded copier was in the early 90s.
Have to admit, it was a much better quality machine than anything else I looked at.? And the salesgal was an unbelievably
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chrisser
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#119002
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Re: A rather useful tool
Xerox was never really a copier company. ?It was a paper and toner company -- the consumables generated the vast majority of revenue and profit. ?And guess what brand of supplies went into the
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Les Niles
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#119001
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Re: A rather useful tool
Sure. ?And last time I busted my knuckles when the adjustable wrench slipped, I wiped up the blood with a kleenex, put on a couple of band-aids, and took a tylenol for the pain.
-Les
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Les Niles
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#119000
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Re: A rather useful tool
Xerox could never make their mind up.
They had their very own Bell Labs division in Palo Alto Research Center, but treated it as a place to exile smart but non-copier-oriented people from their HQ
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Bruce J
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#118999
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Re: A rather useful tool
In the 80s when I worked at hp, companies were desperate to keep you from verbing their brands, like Xeroxing.? They wanted to be known for more.? Xerox desperately wanted to get past copiers.?
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Peter Way
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#118998
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Re: A rather useful tool
Well, when I went to tech school in 68 and eventually got to the engine phase of learning, our teacher introduced himself as mr weber. Then he held up an adjustable wrench. He said that he never
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[email protected]
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#118997
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Re: A rather useful tool
When I was a kid I was taught by my 80 year old great uncle , a mountain man that one of the most important tools a guy could carry in a rig was a vise grip , the kind with the wire cutters on them .
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mike allen
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#118996
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Re: A rather useful tool
I have 2 large chain wrenches , they are real popular among my friends .
Not sure how many years of hefting one of them up I got left in me
though . Mine are probably 3 & 4 feet long without the chain
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mike allen
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#118995
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