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We have a job that is made from drawn over mandrel tubing. We thread the o.d. and have always fought the chips. I found this cool little trick from Sandvik. Anyone familiar with it or anything similar?

I stumbled across these older Mazak manuals and thought someone may be able to use them. T-1 and T-2 stuff. https://hagstromsystems.se/_Files/MazakQT10N1986OperatingManual_T2.pdf https://hagstromsystems.se/_Files/MazakQT10N1986ElectricWiringDiagram.pdf...

We have a job that requires a .75 diameter face groove , .088 wide and .055 deep in mild steel. We want to hold that insert in a C4 or C5 Capto holder. I have spent a while searching the Web to no avail. I know we can have one made, but if I can avoid that expense, that would be preferable. We...

We run several lathes with 1000 psi coolant and are having problems with the coolant nozzles on our Iscar Capto tools blowing out. Only on the Iscar tools. They are pressed in and appear to be a blue plastic. Anyone else seen this, and if so, what is the fix? I think we should bitch about it to...

Okay- I know if the tailstock on your lathe is not centered on your spindle in the X axis you will turn a taper. If it is high or low will the same thing occur?

I was poking around on the Haas page looking to cost a dual spindle lathe. I did not see a dual spindle with a 2 inch bar capacity. It looks like the dual spindles start with a 3 inch bar capacity and a 10 inch chuck. Is this right? I want a smaller machine for the higher rpms. Did I just not...

Some Silver and Deming drill shanks have 3 flats milled on them to help keep them from spinning in the chuck. Why are those flats milled only half way down the shank, instead of the whole length? The larger drill chucks will certainly swallow the entire length of the shank.