i'd ask the slot size, it's important to get a good fit = but for 16mm slots i'd guess M12. Also... a Very Good Idea to have enough flange nuts to put the T-nut and stud in and tighten a flange nut down the stud onto the table before passing the clamp bar over the stud, it stops you tearing out...
Yup - without a drawbar the tool's (or toolholder's) Morse taper will start to "walk" out under side loads - the reason milling in a pillar drill's a Bad Idea, and a very fast way to break things you don't intend to!
They do have diffferent threads on different machines / tooling, it can be a...
you're going to hate this....
A couple of sturdy pad-eyes into a beam or three, ratchet straps and slings, a few carabiners, you'll have 'em swinging like a masochist having a good time!
If it works for the Rapid Offensive Unit "Hold My Mindstate And Watch This" (ZZR1400) it should work for...
The last few years I've gone from full-time employee to fixed-term contracting and it's amazing how my stress levels have dropped - they know how much they're paying for you so they value you, they know you can walk out and find something just as good (or better) if they give you too much hassle...
I really lusted after the H17/H20, but being poor had to have a C13 instead...
While I was cleaning it up preparing to refurb, I discovered an asset tag from the ARDE (Armaments Research and Development Establishment) - Fort Halstead, where my grandad worked as senior toolmaker in the early...
The 7x12 I have came with one from the factory, eleiminates a lot of the fears of snappage! They'e not complicated to make from first principles, put a one-way ball/spring-valve in piston with a couple of O-rings, plumb a bypass with a needle vlave and aball valve to shut the motion off - but...
I had that South Wales factory on my patch as a new network engineer (bloody hell, that was last century...), got called (all the way from Hampshire) to a tools-down network outage, changed the fuse in the plug and...
inside the tailstock quill should be pretty soft (unhardened) so it can get a grip on hardened tooling, so a bearing scraper should take off any burrs, the hard bit is seeing where they are - bit of blue on a fresh, clean morse taper something?
it's not that difficult, especilly if your possibly-future-son-in-law is a detective constable who doesn't think you're a loonie, £40 for a 3-year licence. The hard bit is getting anyone to sell small quantities...
that looks like contamination, and appears to go right round, the full length of the bead - assuming you've throughly cleaned the filler rods maybe the purity's not what it should be?
I've seen a video of Ron Covell TIG welding copper, so it is done - if i unforget diserroneously he was making a radiator grille for a tiny retro racecar to be sent off for plating?
Not that I'm much of a welder, but... I think it's wise to have more than one machine to cover that many different needs, a cheap plasma cutter (the ones from Lidl are very good value, I bought one a couple of years ago and it's excellent, I already had a compressor but there are now ones with...