npolanosky
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2016
- Location
- USA, FL
I just got my KIA lathe up and running and don't have a ton of tooling for it yet, but I have plenty of 3/4" tools for my manual lathe. If I make some nice, accurate, 1/4" thick L shaped spacers to get the tool in the right spot can I use those in my 1" holders, or should I suck it up and buy the 1" versions of my indexable threading and parting tools? I have a bunch of turning and facing tools inbound with a variety of inserts and styles, just not threading tools yet.
Side note- Does anyone know where to get the pins for VDI40 turrets? I have a few that have seen better days and I'd like to replace them. There are 14mm by ~20mm with an M10 thread for coolant transfer and 10mmx14mm with a 5mm thread for aligning the tools. I can't find dowels of that size with the thread on mcmaster or MSC. Might be a machine tool specific thing, or maybe I just need to turn my own.
Side note- Does anyone know where to get the pins for VDI40 turrets? I have a few that have seen better days and I'd like to replace them. There are 14mm by ~20mm with an M10 thread for coolant transfer and 10mmx14mm with a 5mm thread for aligning the tools. I can't find dowels of that size with the thread on mcmaster or MSC. Might be a machine tool specific thing, or maybe I just need to turn my own.