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I am guessing you live in the Dallas area since I saw the same deal here and almost bought him out.? The issue for me is leaded steels are less than ideal for gun receivers or barrels and are difficult to weld or heat treat. ?

Charles

On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:19 PM, James Rice <james.rice@...> wrote:

I bought the 9.5mm version back when it was called a A9.5.? It was listed for lathes of 9" to 12" swing.? I didn't have the South Bend 9A back then but I felt the next size they carried was a B16 was going to be too large for the Atlas Craftsman 12x36.? As it turned out the 9.5 size has been perfect for both lathes.? What I wish I had purchased at the time was a T6 or 6mm version that takes a 1/8" bit. It was for a 3" to 6" swing lathe which would have been perfect for my 6x18 Atlas-Craftsman lathe. I later bought a set of the new style 9.5mm holders which have a different angle on the tool holder compared to the older version but use the same bit geometry.? I think I'm about to order a 20mm set for my South Bend 16" but I'm going to continue my project to make several of my own type of holder just to see how they turn out.??

I haven't been spending much time in the shop for the past couple of years.? I spent the last 4 years at the local community college taking 4 semesters of welding and 3 semesters of auto body classes.? I have this spring semester to go and I'll be finished with the auto body courses and will receive associated degrees number 3 and 4 in May as well as the 3 AWS welding certifications I've already earned. So I've been thinking about new shop projects to tackle and old ones to finish.? To forward those intentions, I recently purchased 20 bars of 1-3/8"x72" 41L40 steel as well as 5-600# of 416SS and 41L40 cutoffs the same diameter and in assorted lengths of 3" to 12" from a gun receiver maker who advertised them on Craigslist for $5 a bar.? He sold me the lot of cutoffs for $20 dollars more.? Since the going rate for a 1-3/8"x72" bar of 41L40 is $185 and the rate for 416SS bar is $6.25 an inch at the metal suppliers, I jumped on it. The guy originally had almost 100 bars to sell but some other hobby machinists got there first so I took what he had left.? It was close to half a ton of oil hardening and free machining tool and stainless steel for a bargain price. So as my lovely wife puts it, "I have some more innocent pieces of metal to torture".?

James?