K & T Milling Machine Horizontal with Vertical Head $1500.00

M.B. Naegle said:

I wanna know how you got it outside with that dolly!? ()

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M.B. Naegle said:

I wanna know how you got it outside with that dolly!? ()

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what the deal with the hydraulic knee? Still have the power/rapids on each axis? Top spindle speed​

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javan.dempsey said:

When you say "dark oil cleanup" what do you mean precisely? Because I've got a 2H vert, that had some "dark oil" in the base, that literally no solvent invented by man or visiting extraterrestrials can put a dent in. It's not quite solid, more blob-like in consistency, but the only thing that'll remove it, is mechanical manipulation.

I've just decided it's easier, and cheaper, to repress the thought of it, and get treatment for the trauma later! ;D That, and put a redneck "Five Gallon Bucket Sump" (band, bar, or stripclub name?) beside it.

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thermite said:

There may be hope.. Similar challenge, similar plan, Quartet mill. Was even going to fill the base sump with concrete so it was never again an issue - external cutting oil system or go pound sand. Well.. concrete, then.

Serendipity happened.

Mill sat so damned long before I got back down INTO it that dehydration and differential thermal expansion had caused the "miracle plastic" vs cast-Iron bond to over-stress, peeled the chunks way from the casting. Could then break 'em up and lift 'em right out.

About four years should do it, your shop is DRY enough and the temp swings are extreme enough!

Downside? There went my chance of selling the formula to the plastics industry as a material tougher than cut-nails!

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javan.dempsey said:

Yeah unfortunately, I'm in the temperate rain-forest of western NC Smokey Mtns. Where its damn near constantly wet and scientifically impossible humidity levels during the summer, and so bone dry in the winter, that even things like micarta shrink dimensionally enough to cause me problems, let alone anything natural.

I'm a custom knife maker, and I specialize in lots of very high end materials. I have had to adopt a policy of never gluing handle material to pocket knife liners or any really thin tangs, during either transition, unless I'm ready to finish the piece the same day, because no matter what, if I wait any significant time from glue up, to pinning, finish and ship, the handle slabs will be peeling off the liners.


I know it's exacerbated by the wood heat, but the swings are just so destructive. I don't even bother with wood most of the time, too much risk in any season of having it show up the customer, having the scales crawling off anywhere there's not a hard mechanical fastener (and I do extensively fasten mechanically on top of adhesive), because it'll be either significantly dryer anywhere else in the summer, or more humid in the winter.

I'm guessing you're in a similar area of Virginia. I grew up in the tropics, literally, in the rain forests of Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua, and they've got nothing on this place. ;~\

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