Welding Tips and Tricks

Aaaannnnnnd more than 3 years later after I bought it, finally setting it up good! LOL





So far I've bought and/or ordered:

• ER40 Collet setup for mill
• AXA QCTP and assorted tool holders
• 20pc HSS 2 & 4 flute end mills
• Shars 5" vise w/ rotating base
• clamp set
• parallels
• Slotting saw arbor
• Shars 3" precision boring head & boring bars
• Shars precision keyless chuck
• 10pc HSS 1/2" square tool blanks
• Magnetic dial indicator holders w/ 0.030" dial indicators
• 1-2-3 step blocks
• Horizontal/Vertical rotary table w/ 6" chuck & divider plates.
• Slotted angle plates
• Adjustable angle plate
• Steady Rest & follow Rest
• Co-axial centering indicator
• Live Center set w/ interchangeable tips
• Flycutter

The last unknown frontier is indexable carbide tooling. Now, I know I can get away with HSS for pretty much everything I plan to do, but at the same time, I don't want a project inside of another project; IOW I don't want to spend too much time learning other than basic HSS tooling blank forming---I'd rather just buy the tool to machine what ever part I need that doesn't already exist. But for now I'll have to do some research on indexable carbide tools.

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Crap, I just noticed the picture gets chopped off! It's the only thing about this forum software! Half my screen is wasted since the default size just uses the middle of the screen.

Oscar wrote:Aaaannnnnnd more than 3 years later after I bought it, finally setting it up good! LOL





So far I've bought and/or ordered:

• ER40 Collet setup for mill
• AXA QCTP and assorted tool holders
• 20pc HSS 2 & 4 flute end mills
• Shars 5" vise w/ rotating base
• clamp set
• parallels
• Slotting saw arbor
• Shars 3" precision boring head & boring bars
• Shars precision keyless chuck
• 10pc HSS 1/2" square tool blanks
• Magnetic dial indicator holders w/ 0.030" dial indicators
• 1-2-3 step blocks
• Horizontal/Vertical rotary table w/ 6" chuck & divider plates.
• Slotted angle plates
• Adjustable angle plate
• Steady Rest & follow Rest
• Co-axial centering indicator
• Live Center set w/ interchangeable tips
• Flycutter

The last unknown frontier is indexable carbide tooling. Now, I know I can get away with HSS for pretty much everything I plan to do, but at the same time, I don't want a project inside of another project; IOW I don't want to spend too much time learning other than basic HSS tooling blank forming---I'd rather just buy the tool to machine what ever part I need that doesn't already exist. But for now I'll have to do some research on indexable carbide tools.

It good lathe/mill for limited space

I have work both a Fab and Machinist
Note pay a lot better if working for some else but also having welding back ground is plus for both self employment and working for some else

Dave

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Yup, exactly why I bought it, because it's small enough that it doesn't take up much space, and big enough to tackle the limited jobs I think I'll ever need to do on it.

For home shop HSS tooling all that is needed, been down the road of insert carbide,expense too much for return,will chip and dull without correct feed/speed and lots of coolant(messy). But knowing how you went about tigging you will learn/experiment your way.
Beware ,projects soon out grow our machines as one learns.
Best to you.