[modeleng] Re: Replacable Tips
- From: "shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Modeleng" <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:24:51 +0100
Like Jesse, I am a survivor from the early dark ages!
I was given my first lathe during the War (despite rumours, NOT the
Crimean!) and this came equipped with a set of carbon steel lathe tools.
High-speed tool bits were difficult to acquire (There was a war on!).
I have never been an expert tool grinder and would rather spend my time
making things - so unlike the rest of my bretheren in this List, I
enthusiastically embraced the advent of the disposable carbide tip. I
have an elderly Emco V10 Maximat, which has a higher range of speeds than
the Myford.
I find that I get the best results from the carbide tips, turning at high
speeds whilst taking relatively small cuts.
Harking back to those old days, fractional hp motors were very expensive,
and factories and workshops ran off one large motor, through a maze of
of shafting, and 'loose-and-fast' pulleys and falt belts. This would make a
present health-and-safety inspector faint with shock!
Cheers! Hubert
----- Original Message -----
From: "JESSE LIVINGSTON" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:48 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Replacable Tips
>
>
>>
>>> If this information from the dark ages is true, how ome carbide tool
>>> bits
>>> are used on some milling cutters?
>>
>> Carbide has improved greatly from the days Al calls "The Dark Ages". I
>> hate
>> to admit it, but I am old enough to remember when carbide tools first
>> appeared and we were warned to protect them from shock loads of any type.
>> Now days, they seem almost indestructible and as you know, end mills and
>> drills are made of solid carbide.
>>
>> Jesse in Tennessee USA
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