Hi Rusty. Hard to beat the ceramics for finish ! bit of advice when looking for a mill, I've found that 40 taper tooling is the most plentiful in the second hand market and therefore the cheapest, the 40 taper toolholder for the new Iscar was £12.50. I know I've said it before but mass is everything when milling ! you can do small jobs with a large mill but not big jobs with a small mill ! and the day will come when you have a big job . Regards...Del...
I think it is high time I did some cutter shank reduction! I was looking for something today and realised how many lathe and shaper tools I have that are too big for my machines! Cracking good video Del! Phil
Yeah, ceramic cutters are nice... Quite gentle in some ways, but remarkably durable in others... Machining abrasive materials like castings, rusty layers on old steel, crusty millscale and similar crap which otherwise dulls cutter with extreme ease - behaves quite nicely with ceramic cutters, or rather, the ceramic cutters behave quite nicely where most others would fail... They also behave quite nicely when they encounter chilled spots in castings, something that HSS cutters hate and carbide only moderately tolerates... I would dare say that ceramic cutters would also make fucking sick custom ground inserts for machining glass filled/reinforced plastics, given their tenacity in resisting abrasive abuse, but that is just speculation on my part... Cheers, best regards! Steuss
@@machinenutdel6764 it ain`t... currently i have everything planned out, but monetarily... well, i needn`t explain... For the moment i`m fixing my car in my yard, parked on concrete full slabs to rise it up... The last 8 months have been a rolling drama essentially in some regards, so shit is more stagnant than toilet water, but alas, things are bound to pick up some pace as time progresses... we`ll see what the tide brings... Once the land is consolidated and the paperwork is in order, i`ll start the 270 cubic meters excavation and i`ll start laying some prep for the foundation... Once the foundation is done, the rest is easy work... well, technically... Once the slab is cast and cured, the shop can be set-up as a steel frame, insulated construction, which can later easily be encased in brick and given the late 1800`s ``factory`` appearance, with the inside already having been fully decked out... The biggest part that i`m looking towards is the car and machines restoration section of the shop, as i am fucking sick of not being able to work on my vehicles properly(also, the lift acts as a double parking spot...) and i really want to start working on the machines that i have picked up for myself, as well as picking up a few machines to restore properly and sell to worthy operators... Just recently have i passed by a cnc surface/tool&cutter/cyl. grinder, essentially a true universal grinder, a relatively small machine(2.0 x 2.0 x 2.5m(WxLxH)) that was tossed out to the scrapyard... A marvelous little beast that was destroyed(i saved the head... i`m sick, i know...) but could have almost been sold ``as is`` by a sane person... A fucking shame that is... I know that it`s not really a hobby shop machine, but let`s be fucking real, i would have been willing to snag it for like 400$, spruce it up a bit, maybe scrape in the wear, put some turcite to restore the OEM design specs, and dish it out to a hobby machinist for a few grand... I mean, such a machine can be sold for 10K easily, it`s a workhorse that can run a small business all by itself in right hands, but it offers a hobbyist in a single ``large`` body what otherwise would require at least 2 large machines or even 3 independent machines... Being able to grind your tools, both round and any other shape, grind literally any cutter(gears, what not...), grind your gears after hardening, grind literally everything and anything that fits the table(2x longer(for rotary headstock setup) but as wide as a bridgeport table)... I mean, it`s an unorthodox hobby shop machine, but as said, it covers literally all grinding with automatic compensation for literally everything, that is if you know a bit of cnc... In my eyes that is the most perfect machine for almost every hobby machinist(outside the realm of watchmakers, boilermakers and similar)... Such a fucking sick machine, and it went to shredders... What a fucking shame, and all because i lack space atm... Anyway, you really shouldn`t have asked, as you can see - you prompted a torrent of madness being unleashed... Hope you are doing well at least, both in the shop and in general... Until next rant, i bid thee all the best!
Very interesting. That is incredible how good that tips work.
Hi Rusty. Hard to beat the ceramics for finish ! bit of advice when looking for a mill, I've found that 40 taper tooling is the most plentiful in the second hand market and therefore the cheapest, the 40 taper toolholder for the new Iscar was £12.50. I know I've said it before but mass is everything when milling ! you can do small jobs with a large mill but not big jobs with a small mill ! and the day will come when you have a big job . Regards...Del...
I think it is high time I did some cutter shank reduction! I was looking for something today and realised how many lathe and shaper tools I have that are too big for my machines!
Cracking good video Del!
Phil
Looking forward to seeing your shaper in action !...Del..
Smooth as a baby's bottom!
How smooth is your bottom Tom !
@@machinenutdel6764 Let me ask my wife. 👍
Yeah, ceramic cutters are nice... Quite gentle in some ways, but remarkably durable in others... Machining abrasive materials like castings, rusty layers on old steel, crusty millscale and similar crap which otherwise dulls cutter with extreme ease - behaves quite nicely with ceramic cutters, or rather, the ceramic cutters behave quite nicely where most others would fail... They also behave quite nicely when they encounter chilled spots in castings, something that HSS cutters hate and carbide only moderately tolerates... I would dare say that ceramic cutters would also make fucking sick custom ground inserts for machining glass filled/reinforced plastics, given their tenacity in resisting abrasive abuse, but that is just speculation on my part...
Cheers, best regards!
Steuss
Thanks for the input Camillo, how's the new shop coming along ?...Del..
@@machinenutdel6764 it ain`t... currently i have everything planned out, but monetarily... well, i needn`t explain...
For the moment i`m fixing my car in my yard, parked on concrete full slabs to rise it up... The last 8 months have been a rolling drama essentially in some regards, so shit is more stagnant than toilet water, but alas, things are bound to pick up some pace as time progresses... we`ll see what the tide brings...
Once the land is consolidated and the paperwork is in order, i`ll start the 270 cubic meters excavation and i`ll start laying some prep for the foundation... Once the foundation is done, the rest is easy work... well, technically... Once the slab is cast and cured, the shop can be set-up as a steel frame, insulated construction, which can later easily be encased in brick and given the late 1800`s ``factory`` appearance, with the inside already having been fully decked out...
The biggest part that i`m looking towards is the car and machines restoration section of the shop, as i am fucking sick of not being able to work on my vehicles properly(also, the lift acts as a double parking spot...) and i really want to start working on the machines that i have picked up for myself, as well as picking up a few machines to restore properly and sell to worthy operators... Just recently have i passed by a cnc surface/tool&cutter/cyl. grinder, essentially a true universal grinder, a relatively small machine(2.0 x 2.0 x 2.5m(WxLxH)) that was tossed out to the scrapyard... A marvelous little beast that was destroyed(i saved the head... i`m sick, i know...) but could have almost been sold ``as is`` by a sane person... A fucking shame that is... I know that it`s not really a hobby shop machine, but let`s be fucking real, i would have been willing to snag it for like 400$, spruce it up a bit, maybe scrape in the wear, put some turcite to restore the OEM design specs, and dish it out to a hobby machinist for a few grand... I mean, such a machine can be sold for 10K easily, it`s a workhorse that can run a small business all by itself in right hands, but it offers a hobbyist in a single ``large`` body what otherwise would require at least 2 large machines or even 3 independent machines... Being able to grind your tools, both round and any other shape, grind literally any cutter(gears, what not...), grind your gears after hardening, grind literally everything and anything that fits the table(2x longer(for rotary headstock setup) but as wide as a bridgeport table)... I mean, it`s an unorthodox hobby shop machine, but as said, it covers literally all grinding with automatic compensation for literally everything, that is if you know a bit of cnc... In my eyes that is the most perfect machine for almost every hobby machinist(outside the realm of watchmakers, boilermakers and similar)... Such a fucking sick machine, and it went to shredders... What a fucking shame, and all because i lack space atm...
Anyway, you really shouldn`t have asked, as you can see - you prompted a torrent of madness being unleashed... Hope you are doing well at least, both in the shop and in general...
Until next rant, i bid thee all the best!
@@camillosteuss I'm a bricklayer by trade retired now, wish I could help, keep the old pecker up my friend !...Del..