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    Designing production machine: need air activated something to grab 8-32 screws

    HI guys, So I'm ponderating making a custom machine to increase (or ease) our production. What it needs to do is grab an 8-32 screw, and hold it still while the end is ground. They come in two lengths: 0.500" and 0.188". And they come by the thousand... My thought is to come up with something...
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    Mori MS-850. Not as silky smooth as a 10EE?

    HI guys, So I've got the brakes on the new (to me) Mori more-or-less sorted, got the DRO mostly installed, etc. Now it's time to get serious about actually using the damned thing. And I notice something: the apron Z traverse is sticky. The bed is in *excellent* shape. I've never seen...
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    Mori MS-850 Center height?

    HI guys, On that Mori MS-850, where I'm rehabbing the brakes. (final details on that when the new brake pistons show up next week...) The original owner had really tricked it out. One of the things he made...turned out not to be for the Mori at all, but it was still a neat idea. It was just...
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    1978 Mori Seiki MS-850 brake caliper and master cylinder equivalents?

    HI Guys, So I've got a new-to-me '78 Mori MS-850. I'm doing the usual 'new toy' inspection, and the brake master cylinder seals have died. So I yanked the master cylinder, and now I'm trying to figure out what Japanese car it came out of, so I can either replace it, or get a rebuild kit. There...
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    New Tool Day: *HEAVILY* tricked out Mori MS850

    HI guys, So, new (to me) tool day. A 70's Mori MS850. Which is cool, but it's all the extra tweaks on this machine that are the really interesting thing. This particular machine came out of the personal shop of the guy who was the lead machinist for Hewlett-Packard back in the day. So it...
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    Cost accounting for tumblers and unattended gear?

    HI Guys, I'm putting in inventory software that'll help generate 'cost to produce' info that should be better than my excel sheet from hell. This leaves me with a puzzlement: how to price time in the tumbler, or other automatic gear? (Not the CNC's.) When the tumbler's running, it eats...
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    Box tool on a Swiss-->How to avoid rats nests?

    HI guys, I've got a "swiss-like" machine. (A Ganesh CS32) Which acts like a Swiss 95% of the time, the difference is that it doesn't have a guide bushing. Which means it doesn't need ground stock. But it also has trouble with long thin parts. Which is mostly not what we do, so it's a good...
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    inventory system part numbers: building the perfect numbering system?

    HI guys, So I'm pondering picking up an inventory/MRP system to help get a handle on things. (I'm looking hard at Fishbowl, but if anybody has any suggestions for a similar system that can integrate with Quickbooks, and knows from manufacturing, I'm all ears.) Anyway, no matter what system...
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    Industrial laser cutter-cost of ownership?

    Hi guys, So I'm pondering getting a large laser cutter. As in 48x120 sheets, .190" thick in aluminum. So not a desktop toy. This leads to questions: A) what's the minimum wattage I need to get through .200" aluminum? (It'll be 99% 6061, with the occasional run of .190 stainless.) B) Any...
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    Wet timesaver-when to change fine belts?

    HI guys, This may be a bozo question, but I've got a new-to-me wet 19" timesaver, running 220 grit belts. We'd just got it up and running after a full rebuild when the shutdowns hit. (Bought it used. "Was working when pulled". Famous last words. There wasn't one single system on that thing...
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    '54 Square dial w/ threader gearbox issues. Any guess on downtime?

    HI Guys, I've got a '54 square dial with issues with the threading gearbox. Sounds like a rock crusher when you try to thread. I've never actually *tried* to thread anything with it like that. 5 seconds of listening to it convinced me to shut it down and switch back over to feed. So I don't...
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    Custom broaches for laser cut knockout die? Weird custom tooling alert

    HI guys, OK, here's another weird one. We make hand saws. Fancy hand saws. The spines look like trusses. They're laser cut in 6061-T6, .190 thick, so there's lots of little slugs to knock out of the holes. They're single-tabbed, so they stay in the blank during cutting. If we cut them...
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    Rubber duckies to control evaporation from coolant tank?

    HI guys, Now that I have your attention, I have a question. Once upon a time, I was a jeweler, and did a fair bit with plating tanks. To control evaporation from the tanks, we used little plastic balls that floated on top of the bath, covering the surface, and preventing evaporation. They...
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    Need help IDing a weird panel switch

    Hi guys, I need help ID'ing a weird punch button switch off the power box for my hydraulic shear. (Peck, Stowe & Wilcox. Yeah, that old. ) I'd guess 60's, at a bet. It's a sort of push button that lives on the external case of the power box. It isn't a switch, by itself. It's the external...
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    Wet widebelt sander: coolant mix? and other new owner questions.

    HI guys, So I found a used wet timesaver for not insane sums of coin. Yay. It arrived today, more-or-less un-smashed by the LTL guys. Bigger Yay. We're still sorting it all out, but it looks like it's in pretty good shape. Only 20 years old, and in storage for the last 10 of that, so...
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    Timesaver vs. woodworkng widebelt. What's rotation got to do with it?

    HI guys, I'm looking for a small timesaver, or similar widebelt sander. Our parts max out at around 12" wide. Timesaver makes a 13, if you can find one. The next are 19's, and they exist, but they're 10K used. Or..... There are a whole slew of 15-16 inch woodworking widebelt sanders. From...
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    Linear ways: replace just the trucks, or both trucks and rails?

    Greetings: I've got a Ganesh Cyclone 32CS, which is a sliding headstock twin spindle not-quite-exactly-a-swiss lathe. (no guide bushing, but otherwise, it acts like a Swiss.) It's not a Citizen, but it's been a very solid workhorse for years. So the subspindle is out of alignment. 0.0025" down...
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    Need to find company to apply dry threadlock to 10K screws

    HI guys, I'm looking to see if there's anybody in the US who can apply some sort of dry threadlock to the rear of 10K 8-32x.500" set screws. Other than Long-Loc. I'm already working with them, and let us just say that I am unimpressed with how quickly they have responded. What I'm looking at...
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    Needed: 8-32x.500" threaded stud w/splines for press fit install

    HI guys, I have a problem. I have many problems actually, but today's issue is the little set screws we use on the clamping knobs for our saws. Each saw uses 2 clamping knobs. These knobs are made up from a 5/8" OD anodized aluminum knob top that comes off our swiss, with a grade 8...
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    Getting a clean 'print' with a rope knurl?

    HI guys, I thought to write this on my way home tonight, after spending the past couple of hours tooling the swiss to do rope knurled knobs. Of course, I had the thought after I left, so no pix. I'll fix this tomorrow. The part is just a little finger knob. .625" OD. 6061T6. The knurled...
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