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James Rice
I have a Phase II AXA piston type on my AC12x36, an A2Z CNC piston type aluminum QCTP on my AC6x18, a CDCO Bostar AXA wedge type on my South Bend 9A and a Bostar CXA wedge style on my South Bend 16".? I actually prefer the holders from CDCO over the Phase II as they fit tighter on the dovetails and seem to be more stable when clamped.? I also have noticed th Phase II piston type under a heavy cut does sometimes move a tiny bit which is something I never have seen on the wedge post.? One some early purchases of spare AXA blocks from CDCO i had to replace the Chinese eset screws as the hex socket stripped out but anything I"ve bought in the past 6 years hasn't had that issue.? ?The CXA tool post set is as rigid as any other I"ve seen including real Aloris posts. I'm looking at some blocks both AXA and CXA from All Industrial that are called XL blocks and allow larger tooling to be clamped that the normal AXA 101 and 102 blocks allows.? The XL blocks for the CXA post will allow tool shanks of 1" square to be clamped as opposed to th 3/4" of the standard block.? There is a lot of large shank tooling out there at surplus pricing that I could use with tool holder blocks that holds larger shanks. In the near future I'm going to replace the A2Z post with a OXA cast iron post set as I'm not pleased with the flexibility of the aluminum post set.? Plus A2Z is defunct and sooner or later supplies of blocks will dry up.? I know UI can make them myself but I'd rather spend my all too scarce shop time making parts for projects instead of making tooling I can buy down the street.? As it is my shop time is an hour here and two hours there stolen from either playing hooky from class or work or squeezed in between 11pm and 1am when I probably should be sleeping. James On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:24 AM Andrei <calciu1@...> wrote:
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