Recent content by Lil Foot

BTDT.

Great! Different degree markings on the swivel base.... hmmm....

Another Kurt ID clue. A buddy mentioned that all the Kurts have a boss with graduations for the swivel base. Not sure about that, but I thought I'd pass it along. (yellow oval)

When I started out in machining, the shop got low on work, so a toolmaker was assigned to try and remedy the non-Kurt style vises, and he requested me to help with the grunt work. I think we did 7 or 8 vises, regrinding all the surfaces, making new gibs, making new nuts, straightening screws &...

Years ago I read a multi-page Master's thesis on all electronics being based on the absence of smoke. :ROFLMAO: I understand the person in question got their Master's based on the well written paper.

Congrats on the new mill. You did great on the cutters, looks like a good variety, assuming they are not dull beyond use. (close one, I started to type "assuming they are not duller than a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .") (fill in your own politically incorrect word)

Here's a tubalcain vid on Kurt mill vises. The two pictured above LOOK like Kurt. I was once told by a Kurt rep that all Kurt vises and swivel bases have serial numbers that can be used to date them, but I'm not sure that applies to very early ones. We had a couple old ones at work that had...

Agreed, Bridgeport brand vises will generally "jack up" parts (a little or a lot depending on wear) and often allow parts to move under heavy cuts. Kurt mill vises are the way to go, but beware, there are a lot of Kurt look-a-like clones from the asian world out there. We had a job that...

We have an 85yr old woman across the street that we help out/watch over whose dog died night before last. She was lost as to what to do, so we took her & her baby to our vet for cremation. (she wanted his ashes) $300. o_O I can remember when I thought $60 was high for that service. :mad:

Looks like someone's handmade special size version of "1-2-3 blocks". Having multiple sizes can be pretty handy for setups, blocking, and the like. Here are some of mine, also got a set of "3-4-6 blocks" around somewhere.

I know the feeling- 3 qts Honda GN4 10-40w shipped to the house-$39.99 ! :eek: (and that was the lowest quote!) (And yes, I could have bought it locally, but it would have been higher $ from our monopoly motorcycle stealer- I'd stop riding before I gave them any of my money.)

Never seen any thread rolls like that, but I suspect Hagrid may be right. Note the "pitch angle" of the ridges. The material they are made from might help with the ID. From the pics they look cast, then ground? S.S. ? Tool Steel? Are they hardened?

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