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Monday morning I purchased 10 AXA tool blocks, from CDCO ($11 /ea), I also purchase from another supplier, 10 of the AXA oversized blocks (5/8" tooling) ($13.50/ea). The CDCO order is to be here on Friday, according to the tracking, the oversized blocks are suppose to be here, on Tuesday of next week, again according to the tracking.
I'll be interested to see what the oversized blocks are like, with all of the ones I've order from CDCO, I know what they are like.
A while back I ordered some 8 mm x 1.25 mm x 20 mm, full dog point square headed set screws for the tool blocks, I had ordered 50 of them, apparently image of my fax to the supplier was fuzzy, they ordered me, 500 of them. I'm guessing, I'm covered for the rest of my life for them..
Part of my block order is for boring bar holders. I like the boring bar to be solid in the holder, I dislike, the blocks that try to hold the boring bar in the groove in the bottom of the tool block. I bore a tube to the size, to hold the boring bar then, mount the tube into a block, some are screwed in, some are welded in. I have a couple of the bigger boring bar blocks for 1/2", 5/8" and 3/4" boring bars, the ones I make are specifically for the shaft size of the smaller boring bars, metric shanks and small fractional one, for me they have worked great, the boring bar chatter, I had before, is gone.
I'll be interested to see what the oversized blocks are like, with all of the ones I've order from CDCO, I know what they are like.
A while back I ordered some 8 mm x 1.25 mm x 20 mm, full dog point square headed set screws for the tool blocks, I had ordered 50 of them, apparently image of my fax to the supplier was fuzzy, they ordered me, 500 of them. I'm guessing, I'm covered for the rest of my life for them..
Part of my block order is for boring bar holders. I like the boring bar to be solid in the holder, I dislike, the blocks that try to hold the boring bar in the groove in the bottom of the tool block. I bore a tube to the size, to hold the boring bar then, mount the tube into a block, some are screwed in, some are welded in. I have a couple of the bigger boring bar blocks for 1/2", 5/8" and 3/4" boring bars, the ones I make are specifically for the shaft size of the smaller boring bars, metric shanks and small fractional one, for me they have worked great, the boring bar chatter, I had before, is gone.
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