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I haven’t used this particular variant, and I believe they’re specials so I don’t know price or availability, but I wonder if this might be another option to consider. I *have* had Balax make some custom 1/4-80 form taps for Ti, and was happy with the results.

Regarding roll tapping, and your concerns about the crest of the internal thread in coarse pitches:

It looks like SMW Autoblok is still around, but am not sure that's the same entity or not....

Here’s another vote for something like that Dell....I’ve got a 7740 that’s a couple of years old, and have had a couple of other “Precision” laptops that have all served well.

That shaft looks nice! I love it that you’ve got a fly helping you program it in SolidCam in your next to last pic! Your secret is out....

Rego-Fix stuff is great....and yes, I’m the chump that writes the checks! I’ve got a bunch of ER-16 & 32 collet chucks and I don’t even bother to check them anymore. Maybe I ought to and report back, but they’re essentially dead nuts in my experience. All bets are off with cheapo collets, and...

We’ve got Volumill in TopSolid 7 and use it quite a bit. We’ve also got trochoidal but don’t use that nearly as often because VM is a better fit. Yes, I can see an older/slower control being unable to really take full advantage of a VM toolpath, and in that case a trochoidal path might work...

Gotta love it-HerdingCats threadmill may cause cancer! Go Prop 65!

A friend has some reducing bushings that he uses in a small boring head, but am not sure where he got them (they don’t look home made, hardened + ground). They’re properly made like yours, split like you’d expect from a collet.

You're welcome-let us all know how it goes! Did that STEP file work better for you?

I forgot to mention that the IGES file originated from SWX2008 (according to the file header), so it has now made the "round trip." IGES is kinda a relic these days with stuff like STEP or Parasolid often giving better results for solid and surface data.

Hi Paul: I've just emailed you the translated files-let me know if this does the trick, OK? The files were quite large, so I have sent them as separate emails (they haven't bounced-yet). You will have a native SWX2021 file, as well as a few different Parasolid files that should read into SWX...

Hi Herding Cats: I'd be happy to have a crack at this if you haven't got it sorted already. I figure between SWX and TopSolid there's got to be a way to do this. Cheers, Brian

Wow-that’s good to hear! You found someone nearby to do the grinding, or your material supplier just did it and surprised you?