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    Correcting Slop on Plate Roller End?

    Well you all pretty much affirmed what I was thinking. We only plan on using this machine MAYBE once per week, so we'll just have to live with the slop. Though if it gets to be too annoying, we may consider machining out the swing arm and pressing in a bushing there. I never thought of that...
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    Correcting Slop on Plate Roller End?

    It's an older Lown G500, 10ga x 50" capacity. I bought it cheap from HGR. Works great for most of my needs, but I noticed on larger pieces, it was rolling a little inconsistently from one end to the other, making a very slight funnel shape. I can adjust the far end with an adjusting screw to get...
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    Di-Acro 14-72 Press Brake Not Flat? Bent Parts Have Uneven Bends in Center of Length

    I just purchased a used Di-Acro 14-72, 35 ton press brake. I'm very new to press brakes, this is my first time even using a press brake. I'm bending 18ga sheet at 50" long using a 3/8" V-Die, bending a 1" flange. I dialed in the machine so I'm getting a 90 degree bend, which is 90 on both length...
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    Tips/Advice on Used Lower Priced Laser Cutter?

    I know "laser" and "lower priced" don't go together, but I wanted to get some opinions on purchasing an older, used laser cutter. A lower end CNC plasma cutter works just fine for my needs, I don't NEED the tolerances or benefits of a laser cutter, but it would save a lot of time with the...
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    And here are the last 2 (12 total prints). Feel free to email me and I can send you the PDF with everything combined.
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    Here are 5 more prints:
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    I already have the PO for this job, just looking to outsource some of the machined components as I'm not really set up for this type of work. Quantities are listed on each page. I would prefer to have this all quoted as a single order and not split up across multiple sources, but feel free to...
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    Tap handles: Schroeder, Gedore, or someone else

    Please don't hate me for this, but Harbor Freight actually sells a pretty nice tap wrench: T-Handle Tap Ratcheting Wrench I bought one about 3 years ago and it's still going strong. Made in Taiwan so a little better than China.
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    What was somewhat interesting is I started digging into this a little more, some of the products have all the holes perfectly straight, while most of the other products have all crooked holes. It seems to be there are a handful of employees here who can tap a straight hole, while the rest are...
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    I guess I never considered going with a larger drill, I just assumed hand drilling would drill a slightly oversized hole. But I'll try the larger drill and see if it makes things easier. I thought of that as well after I posted this. My initial concern was that the twisting of the drill while...
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    We make furniture products with a huge variety of different shapes, sizes, material sizes, etc. Everything gets drilled and tapped for a simple leveler in the bottom. After the base or leg is finished, the holes are drilled and tapped by hand with battery powered drill. We used to use 1/4-20...
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    Anyone know of a saw with a large miter capacity?

    To anyone who's interested, I purchased a Marvel 8 Mark III saw and it was awesome, but no matter what we did, we could not keep the saw from wandering at the point of entry. I called a few tech support people from various companies, and they all agreed this was a difficult task for the saw to...
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    Speed/Feed Recommendation for milling CrV sockets

    Because I have a ton of the Cobalt endmills I bought cheap off eBay. I'd like to put them to use. But I also thought carbide didn't do very well on interrupted cuts? Well if you were in northern Illinois, you would have the job. I had a couple local places quote it and they wanted $3+/each to...
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    Speed/Feed Recommendation for milling CrV sockets

    It's a special application being sold to a shower/bath distributor, they want 19mm sockets (Chromium Vanadium) milled with a 5/16" wide notch at the end so they can fit into a metal drain cap and be used to unscrew and screw it in. They don't fit around a nut, so the orientation of the notch...
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    Grinding machine for removing welds on steel weldments?

    All the difficult to reach places are welded and ground prior to assembly of the remainder. You find that the Cubitron fiber discs are faster than flap discs? I seem to recall trying them before and I wasn't impressed. But that was several years ago, I could be confused. I just looked them up...
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    Grinding machine for removing welds on steel weldments?

    You'd be surprised... Each of those legs in the photo I attached above has over 120" of weld, so for the set we're looking at close to 20' of weld that needs to be ground down. Typically once the initial weld is ground flush, there's bits of undercut and pits that need to be filled, so those are...
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    Grinding machine for removing welds on steel weldments?

    I have a Timesaver, 36" W, 2 heads, NC controls, wet model. It doesn't work as well as you would think, even with Cubitron II 60+ grit belts. We use it mainly for polishing stainless, so it could be because the roller is too soft. It's been a while since the contact roller was redressed, but I...
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    Grinding machine for removing welds on steel weldments?

    Is there anything like this that exists? Here's a picture of a product we make: Flap discs and grinding wheels just take too much time. I've been able to speed up the cutting process and the fit up/welding process on these, but the grinding is just something I can't seem to come up with...
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    Help selecting a brake press for purchase

    Mostly channels, shelves, boxes, etc. Soapstone and eyeball work perfectly for what we need. Backgauge is nice for repetition though. And yes, unfortunately I have employees, so I am a little worried about the mechanical press brakes...
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    Help selecting a brake press for purchase

    The largest material I would need to process would be 11ga x 53", 1/4" x 24", 18ga x 62". To the best of my knowledge, I haven't needed anything bent in the last 5 years or so that exceeded those dimensions. Purchasing the press brake isn't so much about cutting down on the cost from...

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