Re: Outdoor Welding

On 7/1/2025 1:22 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

It was an example of the major components well made in a factory and the minor ones in someone's cottage, poorly enough that filing improved them.

I am sure you are aware that some of the old school apprenticeship projects were to make precision tools with files.  Making something better by filing is only occasionally within my self taught skill set. it is absolutely a reality in machining.

Its Brown & Sharpe #7 collet size is almost identical to Morse #2, max 1/2", but rarer, so I snapped up all the arbors etc that Wholesale Tool had left.

I have done much the same thing with KWIK 200.  I particularly like the Kwik 200 Accura-Flex collet chucks.  Of course Kwik-200 was much more popular being used in CNC machines by both Bridgeport and Hurco.  I once considered scrapping my Hurco, and sold off some of my tool holders, but then later decided to rebuild it again.  I of course had to buy back some tool holders at a higher price.  That was when I really discovered the Acura-Flex collets and that I liked them even better than ER collets.  Then I acquired a second machine with a Kwik 200 spindle.
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Bob La Londe
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