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All things machinist
- Thread starter Rmcpherson
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Rmcpherson
Member
Those look incredible! Personally designed?
CrazyCooter
Active member
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2021
- Location
- Redding
- Moto(s)
- 20 KTM 1290R, 18 KTM 1290R, 19 Husq 701 Enduro, 23 Husq 501S, 2023 Spyder RT-L, 25 Canyon RedRock
- Name
- Tony
I'm no machinist with my 4 years of high skool metal shop, but do have an import 14x40 in the shop to make tools and some simple parts.
Love seeing the real artists at work!
Love seeing the real artists at work!
Mike95060
Work In Progress
Das a lot of pie!! 
Custom soft jaws for days!!
Custom soft jaws for days!!
machinist adjacent:
I asked the Ferrari mechanic next door what he uses to clean gaskets off of expensive aluminum engine parts and he showed me these fancy things from MAC
being a cheapskate I tried some generic ones from the Rain Forest site and they sucked. there is a requirement that the scraping edge needs to be quite precicely flat or it'll leave drag marks and an incompletely scraped surface. SO, I returned those and went to my meager collection of chipped carbide lathe inserts, grabbed a random bolt and turned it down to fit in the screw hole and did some brazing and BLAMMO! it works well enough till I get tired of it being so small and pony up for the good ones.... through summit seems to have the same thing around $50
I asked the Ferrari mechanic next door what he uses to clean gaskets off of expensive aluminum engine parts and he showed me these fancy things from MAC
being a cheapskate I tried some generic ones from the Rain Forest site and they sucked. there is a requirement that the scraping edge needs to be quite precicely flat or it'll leave drag marks and an incompletely scraped surface. SO, I returned those and went to my meager collection of chipped carbide lathe inserts, grabbed a random bolt and turned it down to fit in the screw hole and did some brazing and BLAMMO! it works well enough till I get tired of it being so small and pony up for the good ones.... through summit seems to have the same thing around $50
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Mike95060
Work In Progress
I have made quite a few custom scrapers from dead carbide tools 
Most of mine are variations of a 3 faced scraper that I grind on a Deckel Single Lip Grinder
Most of mine are variations of a 3 faced scraper that I grind on a Deckel Single Lip Grinder
So before I retired, I was mainly in the racing world. I had seventeen machines at closing. Sold three to where I am now and kept a few pieces. I was really burned out for a stretch. So when I came back to work people started calling. The three clunks are all dedicated for one operation so they are fine. The Haas will run new parts. This is my place.
augustiron
A firm member
Dem ports....
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2010
- Location
- your mom’s house
- Moto(s)
- DR6Fiddy x 2!, 790 ADV S, 9Fiddy SM-R, 89 Transalp, TTR2Fiddy
- Name
- Triple R
- BARF perks
- AMA #2771957
I’m strangely aroused by how tidy your shop is.
900ss
Well-known member
Hah, I am now glad you didn't see the shop that I laid out and worked in for ages...... JK, I think it would have been cool to lead you on a tour. All tour participants were happy. Except Mike 95060.....
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