Great MT2 blanks for my 8520

woodchucker said:
Not bad, I don't have experience from the UK so to me it was reasonable. When I look at some on ebay charging big $$ for a medium fixed rate box, my blood boils, so this was reasonable.

Subtotal: £21.00
Shipping & Handling: £15.60
Total: £36.60
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That shipping's pretty reasonable for crossing the pond, vanilla postage on it within the UK is about £7 - 8 for the other side of the road :)

I've found Chronos not the cheapest, but the quality is a cut above the others importing from China and India (cough cough, the green and yellow ones...)

Dave H. (the other one)
 
Ran into a little problem. Not with the blanks, but how I cut them. My runout is under 1 thou in the mill. But my lathe has a MT3, so I need to use an adapter. But with the adapter I am consistently getting 3 thou runnout. I tried clocking it different, it still out. I could order a new adapter, but it too could be out. I could try grinding the adapter, but my grinder will not reach in, and it only accepts 1/8 shank points. It's an old Themac.
So looking for some advice that would work for me.
 
woodchucker said:
Ran into a little problem. Not with the blanks, but how I cut them. My runout is under 1 thou in the mill. But my lathe has a MT3, so I need to use an adapter. But with the adapter I am consistently getting 3 thou runnout. I tried clocking it different, it still out. I could order a new adapter, but it too could be out. I could try grinding the adapter, but my grinder will not reach in, and it only accepts 1/8 shank points. It's an old Themac.
So looking for some advice that would work for me.
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Can you mark all of the pieces so they can always be but together in the same position?
 
woodchucker said:
AND? the blanks are not the problem. The problem is the adapter.
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Sorry, maybe not getting all of your problem? How about cutting the blanks on the mill? So then, you are setting up the milling machine to cut like a lathe. And cut the blanks on the milling machine for the lathe?
 
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