fly cutter

The project is to replace a nylon sleeve bearing with a needle bearing in an aluminum casting. The current hole is about 1.08 in diameter and about an inch thick. The needle bearing measures 1.312 od (I believe it is is actually 5/16). I have reasonable drill press and a SB 9 inch lathe that is...

I have a Suburban Fly cutter and their 5" bar . I started getting familiar with it by facing off all my aluminum chill blocks. Roughly 4"x5" one inch thick 6061 blocks . The fly cutter works great but I have to run it in low range in my mill, which is 370 RPM and slow table feed . I can run it...

A short vid , fly cutting jaws of an old vise I found at the scrap yard . The aluminum jaws were kind of chewed up and a few places where cutters cut into the jaws. Welded those over then milled and fly cut them. No clue what make or model this vise is...was on an old Supermill at the junk yard...

Saw this vise on an old Supermill at the scrapyard I frequent. It was outside, covered in gunk and chips but the handle still turned so I grabbed it for scrap price. Took about an hour to scrape all the encrusted chips and gunk out of it, then about an hour or so with wire brushes and wheels...

I'm looking for a decent face mill 2" and 3"+ . Need the R8 shanks and holders too, or integrated. Not many of them have good reviews from Shars, BHS, Grizzly. I'm Looking for budget stuff that's semi decent, I dont want to wreck a high end tool while learning but I don't want to waste money on...

I bought a set of fly cutters for my mini-mill but never used them until today. Today I tried a test piece and I was very surprised by the finish I got. I am now hooked to fly cutters and I swear, I will never use an end mill if it can be done with a fly cutter. Having said that I want to...

I am looking to buy a small 2" +/- shell mill for doing light facing work on some antique hit and miss engine heads. Material will be cast iron. Basically, looking to clean up gasket areas. I am debating between a fly cutter or a shell mill. If I go with the shell mill, I then need to decide...