Goot some India made milling vise components and found several big blowholes filled with cheap Bondo. Dug it all out, cleaned it up, and thought about how to best fill the holes. After some time considering all the alternatives I have concluded that an epoxy filled stick is probably my best alternative as the problem is cosmetic!? ?Bill in Boulder
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I agree ??
It is for me to go top end repair.
It is type I did you given one chance to do right.
I have to remembered this a hobby and a hobby budget.?
Keep it simple?
In this case JB Weld is best for this job
Dave?
Miket_NYC
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I think people are blowing this out of proportion. The original poster seemed to be talking about small, cosmetic holes. For these, epoxy should be sufficient with no need for welding, brazing, etc.
Mike Taglieri
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I agree ??
It is for me to go top end repair.
It is type I did you given one chance to do right.
I have to remembered this a hobby and a hobby budget.?
Keep it simple?
In this case JB Weld is best for this job
Dave?
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1:23pm? ?
I think people are blowing this out of proportion. The original poster seemed to be talking about small, cosmetic holes. For these, epoxy should be sufficient with no need for welding, brazing, etc.
Mike Taglieri
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this popped up after a tube I was watching
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I think people are blowing this out of proportion. The original poster seemed to be talking about small, cosmetic holes. For these, epoxy should be sufficient with no need for welding, brazing, etc.
Mike Taglieri?
Get a junk vice from a garage sale or Goodwill for practice, to see how it will turn out for whatever method you chose. Don't practice on the item you want to keep.
For the mig, you can get Silicon Bronze wire, and use argon or CO2 gas.
Yes, it will still leave a golden area like the brazing rod, but if you haven't done brazing rod?before, that's one more new skill to master. Now that isn't a bad thing, but unless you're retired, you may not want to devote time to that. I have done both, and I feel the mig with the bronze wire was a lot faster to get good results with.
There are some color matching rods for brazing cast iron! They're not an exact color match, but, they're gray instead of brass colored. They're also trickier to use than classic bronze rods.
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Roy
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Like others have said, if it doesn't affect the usage of the vice why bother?
Ralph
Get a junk vice from a garage sale or Goodwill for practice, to see how it will turn out for whatever method you chose. Don't practice on the item you want to keep.
For the mig, you can get Silicon Bronze wire, and use argon or CO2 gas.
Yes, it will still leave a golden area like the brazing rod, but if you haven't done brazing rod?before, that's one more new skill to master. Now that isn't a bad thing, but unless you're retired, you may not want to devote time to that. I have done both, and I feel the mig with the bronze wire was a lot faster to get good results with.
There are some color matching rods for brazing cast iron! They're not an exact color match, but, they're gray instead of brass colored. They're also trickier to use than classic bronze rods.
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Roy
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Get a junk vice from a garage sale or Goodwill for practice, to see how it will turn out for whatever method you chose. Don't practice on the item you want to keep.
For the mig, you can get Silicon Bronze wire, and use argon or CO2 gas.
Yes, it will still leave a golden area like the brazing rod, but if you haven't done brazing rod?before, that's one more new skill to master. Now that isn't a bad thing, but unless you're retired, you may not want to devote time to that. I have done both, and I feel the mig with the bronze wire was a lot faster to get good results with.
There are some color matching rods for brazing cast iron! They're not an exact color match, but, they're gray instead of brass colored. They're also trickier to use than classic bronze rods.
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Roy
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Re: ¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
He has advertised the first edition back in print in a couple of recent issues of Home Shop Machinist, and has a link to the new printing of it at amazon?
Bill,
I honestly don¡¯t know what they are worth. (I saw some for sale on the internet and thought the prices were insane. That would lead me to think he might not be selling anything anymore. Lautard still has his website up but I don¡¯t know if he is still around. He was born in 1946 and that would place him at 78.
Dick
--? Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD
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Re: ¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
There are some on amazon also.
There's "for sale" and then there's "sold".? ? Toss out the very high priced and very low priced.? ?The average of the rest may be considered the value.? ? Keeping in mine the condition also.
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Lone Tree, Colorado? ?USA
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Re: ¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
I just did some research on EBay and found recent sales at $125.00 for a set of three.
Dick
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Re: ¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
Bill,
I honestly don¡¯t know what they are worth. (I saw some for sale on the internet and thought the prices were insane. That would lead me to think he might not be selling anything anymore. Lautard still has his website up but I don¡¯t know if he is still around. He was born in 1946 and that would place him at 78.
Dick
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Re: ¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
What?do you want for them shipped to Colorado?? ?Bill in Boulder
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 6:38?PM OldToolmaker via <old_toolmaker= [email protected]> wrote: I have all three books in the series by ¡°Guy Lautard¡± I will be listing this collection on EBay tomorrow or the next day.
Just a heads up if anyone is interested in obtaining this out of print series. Condition is like new!
Dick
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¡°Machinists Bedside Reader by Guy Lautard¡±
I have all three books in the series by ¡°Guy Lautard¡± I will be listing this collection on EBay tomorrow or the next day.
Just a heads up if anyone is interested in obtaining this out of print series. Condition is like new!
Dick
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There are some color matching rods for brazing cast iron! They're not an exact color match, but, they're gray instead of brass colored. They're also trickier to use than classic bronze rods.
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Roy
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as ag Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
Most time I do calcs when making the drawings.?
I also have chart on wall which works for most. Then calculator in the tool box and 25.4 to covert from monkey ?? marks to inch
Dave?
I purchased my first metric tap in 1976 M12 used 12,000 still have tap.
My next purchase was this year M10 x 1.0 MM LH used it one time?
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only thing I can think of is that the dials are usually larger than the digital read heads & if ya want to do metric there's some math involved
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as ag Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
only thing I can think of is that the dials are usually larger
than the digital read heads & if ya want to do metric there's
some math involved .
I've drilled holes in several digital calipers , some were like
cutting butter & some were like drilling rock .
animal
On 2/22/24 11:37 PM, Miket_NYC wrote:
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Yes, I know this can be done with digital calipers. I'm
talking about doing it with a non-electronic dial caliper. Has
anyone done it THAT way?
Mike Taglieri?
This
what did on my mill.
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macihne tool beds & such .
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FYI?
JB Weld is about 4,700 psi
Deacon is about 8,700psi high in cost also use on machine tool bed
repair.?
In hobby work JB Weld is lot easier to use over welding and low
cost.?
The Devcon is great it can be molded in place without having to
machine the bedways and dovetails. It cheaper to use JB Weld and
may not see any different.?
Dave?
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as a Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
I was happy with numbers on quill.
My SB had no marks.?
My mini lathe has both inch and monkey ? marks. Happy days.
On SB I used tape on drill bit for depth.?
Dave?
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as a Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
I have dial indicator that has 3?" face.
But use a very large vertical boring mill and 10 feet from dial indicator.?
Works great
On tail stock I never need a that a digital or dial for drill bits but but used large drills.?
Dave?
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GadgetBuilder 7:03am? ?
Rather than a dial caliper I used a 2" long travel indicator as seen here:
https://gadgetbuilder.com/TailFlag.jpg
This uses a plastic flag on the tailstock and a magnetic base to hold the indicator on the tailstock. Easily removed when not needed. Large dial is easy on old eyes ;-)
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as ag Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
Yes you can the dial type can be adjusted to zero.? I had one on a Bridgeport mill. I work great.
I like digital type all I need to do is press zero button to set start depth.
Dave?
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Feb 22? ?
Yes, I know this can be done with digital calipers. I'm talking about doing it with a non-electronic dial caliper. Has anyone done it THAT way
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Re: Can You Use a Dial Caliper as a Non-Digital "DRO?" (was "Re: LittleMachines DROs and dials")
Rather than a dial caliper I used a 2" long travel indicator as seen here:
This uses a plastic flag on the tailstock and a magnetic base to hold the indicator on the tailstock.? Easily removed when not needed.? Large dial is easy on old eyes ;-)
John
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