Nice job helping Chuck with his project. Annealing the tool bit holder would have been my approach to making it wider. I don't own any carbide end mills so I would be stuck with that approach. Jere
Dean, it’s good that your experimenting with different tool bit geometries. I haven’t seen one like that one, it did create a nice finish. Have a great day.
To get the planer finish you have to feed 1/4 inch or more depending on your cutter size. I have 2 Atlas shapers and and an 18 inch Varnamo. Have not used them in a while. I have a shop in my garage at my home and the shapers are in the garage at my weekend cabin. Always try to run the vise with the jaws parallel to the work just in case something goes wrong. I only setup the vise 90 degrees when the work requires it. Keep up the good work and have fun.
Shaper Mondays are good Mondays! You've got me wondering about the idea of a very broad shear tool that can step over about 0.02 to 0.03 in HSS now. But instead of the accepted rather radical 70 or so degree angle more of a 45 that extends from corner to corner of a 3/8 HSS blank with a similar very long broad and almost flat middle with the same sort of curl up on the ends. And just a little top rake to aid with shearing instead of plowing. It's late now but I think I'll give that a go tomorrow. I'll reply back to this post on how it works. G'night to you.
That will be interesting, yeah my shear tool has a continuous radius, requiring a small step over. A flat grind in the center might be a win-win. Thanks Bruce 👍
that was good I wanted if you planned on releasing your video about the same time as Chuck's Tuesday night video anyway it's nice to have both the back to back OK thank you Kimber
Shouldn’t it self eject after the last pass and not after the first pass? Maybe start it from the left side would help. LOL Always great to see you Dean. Great video. Gary
Thanks for reading my comments.. I have been involved with tool and die work for well over 50 years. Nowadays the newbies only want to push computer buttons to do any work. Granted, I love CNC machines, but I can also do it the Phun way. My Father trained as a guage maker at Johansson Gage in Sweden so I kinda grew up with metal working. I currently have way too many machine tools. No more room at the Inn. Number one rule, if you don't make a mistake, you ain't working. As I tell my trainees, I make plenty of mistakes, I'm just better at fixing and covering it up. @@TheAyrCaveShop
Famous last words Dean 'I hope this isn't going to be a train crash' lol. Looked like you had your clapper locked with the carbide tool in? If so, what was the thinking behind that? Cheers, Jon
