Looking for more frugally priced 3/4 OD bushings for my Aloris
AXA-104. Found some through North Bay Cutting Tools, $21.95 for a 3/8 ID
by 3/4 OD, plus $2 for USPS. Their on-line payment does not give a
warning about unsecure content like ebuy does. Uses CC and PreyPal.

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/northbaycuttingtools/the-TOOLHOLDING/Categories

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:15:26 -0600, Louis Ohland
wrote:

Looking for more frugally priced 3/4 OD bushings for my Aloris
AXA-104. Found some through North Bay Cutting Tools, $21.95 for a 3/8 ID
by 3/4 OD, plus $2 for USPS. Their on-line payment does not give a
warning about unsecure content like ebuy does. Uses CC and PreyPal.

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/northbaycuttingtools/the-TOOLHOLDING/Categories


You dont make your own bushings????

Why not?


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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Robert A. Heinlein

http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPGOn Sat, 08 Jan 2011
04:14:14 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:15:26 -0600, Louis Ohland
wrote:

Looking for more frugally priced 3/4 OD bushings for my Aloris
AXA-104. Found some through North Bay Cutting Tools, $21.95 for a 3/8 ID
by 3/4 OD, plus $2 for USPS. Their on-line payment does not give a
warning about unsecure content like ebuy does. Uses CC and PreyPal.

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/northbaycuttingtools/the-TOOLHOLDING/Categories


You dont make your own bushings????

Why not?

Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

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Ned Simmons

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:49:59 -0500, Ned Simmons
wrote:

http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPGOn Sat, 08 Jan 2011
04:14:14 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:15:26 -0600, Louis Ohland
wrote:

Looking for more frugally priced 3/4 OD bushings for my Aloris
AXA-104. Found some through North Bay Cutting Tools, $21.95 for a 3/8 ID
by 3/4 OD, plus $2 for USPS. Their on-line payment does not give a
warning about unsecure content like ebuy does. Uses CC and PreyPal.

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/northbaycuttingtools/the-TOOLHOLDING/Categories


You dont make your own bushings????

Why not?

Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

Those are some pretty welds, Ned! Neat idea, too.

Ned Simmons wrote:
Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

Ned, How did you insure the axis of the collet holder block
is parallel to the clamping bar? Did you machine the bar
after welding?
...lew...

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:36:39 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:


Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

Those are some pretty welds, Ned! Neat idea, too.

Thanks. Practice, practice. And magnifiers for us old guys.

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Ned Simmons

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:12:10 -0700, Lewis Hartswick
wrote:

Ned Simmons wrote:
Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

Ned, How did you insure the axis of the collet holder block
is parallel to the clamping bar? Did you machine the bar
after welding?
...lew...

I clamped the bar within a couple thou of parallel before welding and
it didn't seem to move. I figured on milling or grinding the bottom
surface if necessary, but it's more than close enough for its intended
purpose: holding small boring bars.

Out of curiosity, I just checked parallelism in the vertical plane of
the lathe spindle with a couple pieces of ground stock. My eyeball
says it's better than .005 over 3 or 4 inches. But keep in mind this
is dependent on the trueness of the toolpost and the specific holder
the device is clamped in.

--
Ned Simmons

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:49:59 -0500, Ned Simmons wrote:

http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPGOn Sat, 08 Jan 2011
04:14:14 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:15:26 -0600, Louis Ohland
wrote:

Looking for more frugally priced 3/4 OD bushings for my Aloris
AXA-104. Found some through North Bay Cutting Tools, $21.95 for a 3/8 ID
by 3/4 OD, plus $2 for USPS. Their on-line payment does not give a
warning about unsecure content like ebuy does. Uses CC and PreyPal.

http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/northbaycuttingtools/the-TOOLHOLDING/Categories


You dont make your own bushings????

Why not?

Or if, like me, you can't ever find that 9/32 bushing you made, make
one of these. The collet block costs about $20, about $130 less than
an Aloris AXA-5C, and a lot less work than boring your own 5C socket.
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder00.JPG
http://www.nedsim.com/news/5CToolholder01.JPG

Very! nicely done!! Bravo!!

Gunner

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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Robert A. Heinlein