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Is it worth it? Plenty of guys buy 30 year old lathes and mills. I don't see any threads around the interwebs of people showing off the killer deal they found on a 93' Mitsubishi wire machine though. I really want to get into wire work and I see used machines at HGR all of the time. I just...

I could use some input on this one. I have made these before but this time I need 150 of them. It's going to be brutal if I have to do them 4 at a time in vises. • I would like to come up with fixturing for at least 10 pieces per cycle. • Machine is a CNC knee mill • Material: 3/4" X 3/4"...

A thread for sharing and learning about all things related to collet work holding solutions. Have you used a collet chuck in an unconventional set up that worked well? Has anyone made their own collet chuck, fixtures or adapters? Would you mind sharing pics of the set up and describing how you...

I know it's simple but I'm trying to learn something new here. I would usually use a simple 2D contour and multiple roughing passes. I thought it would be a good candidate for area roughing but I cannot get the right combination of drive surfaces to make it happen. It keeps trying to rough out...

This is a new one for me. I have to make a replacement adjuster screw for an obsolete piece of equipment. The screw is basically a set screw with a non-standard trapezoidal thread form that looks like this: It comes out to a 1.5mm pitch but my lathe cannot cut metric threads so thread milling...

I have to make 200 of these assemblies. The center piece will likely be made from low carbon steel, seamless hydraulic tubing. The small plug on the right gets fixed flush into the end of the tube. I was thinking of brazing them. I have very little experience brazing - to my inexperienced...

I've got some widgets I need to machine from a piece of plate. I created the geometry > created operations > transform tool paths in an array to get 30 pieces from each plate. Now, I would like to add a second vise with a G55 work offset running the same operation, on the same material, for the...

Copying my inquiry here from "the other place" in case anyone here might be interested. Questions and feedback are always welcome! MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. I cannot post a drawing for this part. I do have a SW part file that I will email to anyone interested in quoting the...