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CAS TOPICS => Gunsmithing => Topic started by: Major 2 on December 04, 2019, 06:22:45 PM
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Used the 20% coupon.... they wave in your face all the time ..was just under $500 with the coupon
( don't let them give you any crap about the discount is not for large purchase tools- they tried , when I balked and was ready to walk , the manager relented )
I bought it for a prototype project for work and when that is complete ...well ;D joy in the home shop
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I'm guessing it is a metal lathe?
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Yep ..... Mini Metal Lathe with auto feed so it will cut threads
you can turn Steel , Alum, brass and plastics
It is the Harbor Freight version , same unit is imported by Grizzly - Jet - Klutch and several others
Northern tools calls theirs the SHOP FOX
same units different colors and decals
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Good for you Major!
now you need one of these:
(https://shop.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_11326.jpg)
and a couple hundred pounds of tooling.
if you don't have a local metal supplier, fleabay has vendors selling cutoffs of dam' near everything cheap,
including a block of titanium I have been eyeing.
have fun, good luck, take off any neckties & etc, and watch your pinkies.
oh and please post fotos of any results!
yhs
prf "still got all my fingers"
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Have fun with your new toy there Major. I?ve enjoyed my mini mill so far. Had my local weld shop build a stand for it.
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I was going to guess it was one of those fancy apple peelers that cored at the same time.
RCJ
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shoot, we should start a thread for amatuer metal butchers and their mini-tools!
and the stuff they make
but no photos of any mangled flesh
yhs
prof marvel
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Got 7x12 Cummins ,, installed a 4 jaw chuck ,, and a mill ,, but unlike Baltimore Ed,, I just bolted my mill to my work bench !!! NOT a good Ideal !!! Do what Ed did and mount the mill to a " very solid stand " ,, Viber-ration is your enemy . I'v made small gun parts for my own use ,, some of them even worked ok! Glad ya got one & welcome to the" stay broke buy'n tools club " .
more coffee ,, Hootmix.
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Nice big boy toys
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I got my 9" grizzly lathe first. I succumbed to the hype : " you can do ANYTHING" with a lathe - just buy a verticle milling attachment"
it came with a ton o stuff and I picked up bits & etc at the same time. I needed an engine hoist
and a helper to get it onto a stand.
so, whilst trying to find an affordable milling attachment I lucked into the perfect storm of HF sale, 20% coupon and free shipping
and an internet special all at once. I got my HF mill for a little over $250 delivered.
then I started collecting milling bits
then I got a tilting rotary table. I have used that thing and oddly shaped milling bits to open up Lee bullet mold driving bands
and recut smaller molds into larger bullets....
then I started collecting more lathe bits, cutoffs, live center, jacobs chuck whatever.
and collets.
I need a vertibale plethora of collets. for both toys tools.
I have played with using the lathe to cut amusing shaped hollow points into existing bullets. It's harder than I thought.
but facing off a cylinder, or taking .001 off a cylender's diameter isn't hard at all.
I am STILL trying to learn how to "correctly" use the lathe....
and I picked up some crap cylinder blanks from numrich to experiment with, it;s much easier for me than cutting down a 2"
diameter chunk o' barstock...
every time I get a new catalog, I find I "need" a way too much new tooling.
but it gives Mrs Marvel something she can get me!
yhs
prof marvel