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You guys are the best. Thank you

Looking to see if anyone has a source or way to figure out where I can get more of these threaded chamfer or countersink bits for this tool. Bought at a swap meet and has no brand markings at all. I love the tool but the bits are dull and I need to replace them. Thanks in advance.

If the lathe doesn't have enough swing they can do it on a mill with a boring head and clamp the piece fixed and turn the OD of that tube as it points straight up.

Machined my first part on the Home CNC mill. Shot some camera phone video of the process. Had my finger on the STOP button the whole time hoping it wouldn't crash and burn but it did pretty well and machined a usable part without any catastrophic consequences.

Designed a pattern and did some laser marking on a Glock 17 Slide

Trammed my new vise onto the CNC mill and set up a mist coolant setup as well.

She's happy to be in the shop always. Constantly bringing her ball in there for me to throw :)

Makes perfect sense. I’ll run it directly off the 20amp GFI wall outlet for now

My Mill was set up for 500rpm for steel. This weekend I swapped pulleys to speed it up to 3000rpm and now the mill shuts off just as the Rpm increases. It is a 110v unit and I’ve run it off a 15amp power strip all along. I have not tried plugging it directly into a higher 20amp outlet yet. Any...

Good info. I have a few random questions you may be the guy to answer: Is this for an autogenous weld? Is the tubing thick enough to be beveled? If using a belt sander to bevel tubing or get it flat is an Aluminum Oxide belt Ok? If not what would you use? I'm going to poke some tiny holes...

Building a Argon back purging setup so that I can build the exhaust on the 85GT

Thanks for all the good info. It sounds like too much of a pain to use the lathe overall hence why no one probably does it. I'll build or buy a dedicated weld positioner for the tubing work instead.

How would I connect a good ground clamp to the lathe setup if I intend to use it for welding tubing? Thank you

Laser marked some surgical retractors for the graduating class of Urology at UCLA.