[modeleng] Re: Parting is such sweet sorrow!
- From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:49:20 -0000
Good tip, Chris
When my Q-cut packs up eventualy, I will try it out!
Cheers! Hubert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:56 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Parting is such sweet sorrow!
>I built a rear toolpost of my own (one big ugly lump of continuous cast
> square CI bar) to accommodate a standard Iscar indexable carbide parting
> off bar. It has a fence on it to ensure it gets aligned properly and I
> can mount it in less than a minute.... As a result I'm never tempted to
> try and part off from the front tool because "it'll take too long...."
> This has led to an end of what could be a fairly traumatic time each
> parting operation..... indeed for a while I was making short batch
> production runs (200 or so at a time) of 6mm and 10mm stainless pillars
> for the company I work for and during that time I've probably done more
> manual parting operations than most ME's my age.... I'd recommend
> indexable carbide to everyone for parting, the Kit-Q-Cut is a good tool
> but the same thing can be sorted out for far less money by buying an
> Iscar or Sandvik parting off bar and making the post to fit it.....
> chrisc
>
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