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0.475" ROD
Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I
think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe
wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from ..050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. |
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On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldnt be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. I have some TGP in a couple alloys and of course its spot on, but I have a fair amount of 303 and 304 and its pretty darned close to final dimension. Maybe I'll have to go mic a few pieces today and double check. I think most of the 1018 and 1144 I have on hand is slightly oversized though. Very slightly. I have noticed some types of flat bar is quite often oversized. I see it all the time in aluminum and its highly variable. From a few thousandths to 50 thousandths. The 4140 I get is pretty consistently ..025 oversize. Consistent enough that for most jobs I can face off ..0125 on each face and be within spec. |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:09:50 -0700, Bob La Londe
wrote: On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. I have some TGP in a couple alloys and of course its spot on, but I have a fair amount of 303 and 304 and its pretty darned close to final dimension. Maybe I'll have to go mic a few pieces today and double check. Ayup..303 and 304 are often ground stock as its used in automated machinery. I think most of the 1018 and 1144 I have on hand is slightly oversized though. Very slightly. I have noticed some types of flat bar is quite often oversized. I see it all the time in aluminum and its highly variable. From a few thousandths to 50 thousandths. The 4140 I get is pretty consistently .025 oversize. Consistent enough that for most jobs I can face off .0125 on each face and be within spec. Good to have it. It may be more common in some places than others. Here in So Cal, mild steel tends to be pretty close to final, the 4000s tends to be almost dead nuts and needs little surface cleanup. At home in the oil fields..its much wider in dimensions..not so much precision machining..more welding than anything else. Aluminum..yeah..its so soft that handling it tends to scar it up so its often bigger to allow surface cleanup (and cheap production) Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. |
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On 1/23/2020 1:18 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:09:50 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. That doesn't make any sense. From my sources 416 is the cheaper stainless. I buy 303 for best machinability, 416 for machinable and high strength and price, and 304 if I have to have it today because that's all the local yards stock. Occasionally I'll buy 316 for special applications. |
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:45:26 -0700, Bob La Londe
wrote: On 1/23/2020 1:18 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:09:50 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. That doesn't make any sense. From my sources 416 is the cheaper stainless. I buy 303 for best machinability, 416 for machinable and high strength and price, and 304 if I have to have it today because that's all the local yards stock. Occasionally I'll buy 316 for special applications. Hummm...let me check on this. Ive read a number of studies that claimed..claimed 416 was superior to strength and corrosion resistance in sal****er. So Ive been using just about all 416 to machine parts for the sailboats I restore. I think I had Better check on this... Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. |
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On 1/24/2020 2:26 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. That doesn't make any sense. From my sources 416 is the cheaper stainless. I buy 303 for best machinability, 416 for machinable and high strength and price, and 304 if I have to have it today because that's all the local yards stock. Occasionally I'll buy 316 for special applications. Hummm...let me check on this. Ive read a number of studies that claimed..claimed 416 was superior to strength and corrosion resistance in sal****er. So Ive been using just about all 416 to machine parts for the sailboats I restore. I think I had Better check on this... Gunner I don't know about its corrosion resistance persaye. Just that its cheaper than any of the other common stainless alloys I can buy from my regular vendors. I always thought 316 was the most corrosion resistant of the common alloys and 303 was the least. There is also a 316L which is slightly more machinable than 316, but not as easy as 416. |
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
... On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:45:26 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 1:18 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:09:50 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. That doesn't make any sense. From my sources 416 is the cheaper stainless. I buy 303 for best machinability, 416 for machinable and high strength and price, and 304 if I have to have it today because that's all the local yards stock. Occasionally I'll buy 316 for special applications. Hummm...let me check on this. Ive read a number of studies that claimed..claimed 416 was superior to strength and corrosion resistance in sal****er. So Ive been using just about all 416 to machine parts for the sailboats I restore. I think I had Better check on this... Gunner https://www.beststainless.com/416-stainless-steel.html They suggest 416 for pump shafts, valve components and boat shafts so maybe it's acceptable in fresh water. |
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:26:45 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:45:26 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 1:18 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:09:50 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: On 1/23/2020 5:44 AM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:38:11 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote: Somewhere along the way I acquired a little bit of stainless rod. I think it was an Ebay purchase a very long time ago. Its some of the first metal I purchased specifically for getting into machining. Before I even had a mill. Just the little Chinese Harbor Freight mini lathe. I still have two pieces a couple feet long. The rest has been used up and turned into chips many years past. One piece is the rod I use to raise and lower the coolant manifold on the side of the Hurco Mill head. The other for several years was being used as the mount for the length stop on my little horizontal bandsaw. I decided I wanted a separated rod on the other side of the head on the Hurco mill for the air blast setup. I'd already made an adjustable and aimable mount to go on the rod with the coolant manifold, but I quickly realized I wanted them each on their own mounting rod. The piece in the saw was the only piece left I could find that was the size for the mount I had already made for the air blast saw its getting used for that. I was just going to order some rod, or use some I already had. I have several pieces of stainless rod on hand now. I keep some variety of stock for various purposes. The problem is its an odd size (I think). It measures exactly 0.475 inches. Not 0.472" like 12mm rod. I have some 12mm linear round rail on hand and I checked against that. Except where its dinged up from years of use it measures exactly 0.475 everywhere. Well every where I measured it. It doesn't matter really. I have a piece for my project, and I can stick something else in the little bandsaw if I really need a length stop on it again. (I have a bigger horizontal bandsaw now.) I am just curious. What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? These are the weird questions that keep me up at night. Bob..that is indeed 12mm rod. Most of this rod is used in screw machines of various types and as such..are usually sold a few thousands bigger so any surface scuffing/scratches can be machined out to get it exactly to 12 mm as a finished part.. If you have rod that is dead nuts to a given common size..its because its been pre ground to that dimension. What you have is the extruded raw rod. I have probably 500-800 lbs of such rod, from .050-3" in diameter, some of it in pieces only a few inches long to others at least 8' long. Flat stock is also commonly found just a few thou bigger, though its less common..most of it is pretty close to dimension. As a side note...stainless has become the de facto material in most turning shops, with the exception of the 4000 series steels. I see so little "common" steels as to raise an eyebrow when I encounter it. More importantly is knowing what type of stainless it is. Is it 303/316/416 etc etc? I think I was told it was 416, but that was a very long time ago. I recall it was easily machined on the 7x10 and doesn't have the grainy finish typical of 303. If you have 416...might want to offer it up to the boat guys for pins and whatnot. You can triple your metal pile..or more by simply trading it for different types of stainless. 416 is THE marine stainless. It will NOT corrode, while most of the common stainless steels will in salt water. That doesn't make any sense. From my sources 416 is the cheaper stainless. I buy 303 for best machinability, 416 for machinable and high strength and price, and 304 if I have to have it today because that's all the local yards stock. Occasionally I'll buy 316 for special applications. Hummm...let me check on this. Ive read a number of studies that claimed..claimed 416 was superior to strength and corrosion resistance in sal****er. So Ive been using just about all 416 to machine parts for the sailboats I restore. I think I had Better check on this... Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. Gack! I believe you are absoutely correct. I should have been using 316 rather than 416. Sigh..and I have a **** ton of 316 too. Thanks for correcting me!! https://www.machinemfg.com/stainless-steel-grades/ Gunner __ "Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport" Yeah..with no bag limit. |
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0.475" ROD
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
... ... ...What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? A piece of 1/2" brass rod I added to an Amazon order to meet the $25 free shipping minimum measures 0.490". Several batches of electronic components from them were out-of-spec rejects, though still usable. For example "75V" gas discharge voltage limiters conducted at either under 70V or over 80V. |
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0.475" ROD
On 06/02/2020 12:18, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... ... ...What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? A piece of 1/2" brass rod I added to an Amazon order to meet the $25 free shipping minimum measures 0.490". Several batches of electronic components from them were out-of-spec rejects, though still usable. For example "75V" gas discharge voltage limiters conducted at either under 70V or over 80V. Jim, I've seen that in the UK with regards to sheet metal thickness from my local suppliers over the last decade or so. In the past when I wanted 16 swg (0.065" 1.6mm) sheet it was bang on within like 0.001", then they metricated it to 1.5mm and it was good for awhile but subsequently I've seen nominally 1.5mm sheet at 1.3mm which was unacceptable for some jobs. I guess the mills are trying to squeeze a few more sheets out to increase profitability. I've not seen bar stock like that but it isn't oversized in my experience. |
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0.475" ROD
"David Billington" wrote in message
... On 06/02/2020 12:18, Jim Wilkins wrote: "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... ... ...What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? A piece of 1/2" brass rod I added to an Amazon order to meet the $25 free shipping minimum measures 0.490". Several batches of electronic components from them were out-of-spec rejects, though still usable. For example "75V" gas discharge voltage limiters conducted at either under 70V or over 80V. Jim, I've seen that in the UK with regards to sheet metal thickness from my local suppliers over the last decade or so. In the past when I wanted 16 swg (0.065" 1.6mm) sheet it was bang on within like 0.001", then they metricated it to 1.5mm and it was good for awhile but subsequently I've seen nominally 1.5mm sheet at 1.3mm which was unacceptable for some jobs. I guess the mills are trying to squeeze a few more sheets out to increase profitability. I've not seen bar stock like that but it isn't oversized in my experience. I keep 4" dial calipers in the car to measure stock when I go shopping, or happen onto a useful piece. They are short enough to stay in a shirt pocket, much less likely than 6" ones to catch on a rack or machine I'm squeezing past and flip onto the floor. They also fit under the head of the mill better to measure height. Sometimes at an industrial supply store the reaction to the calipers is "Oh, you're an engineer", in a tone that suggests they expect I'll be demanding and difficult. When I reassure them that I'm a tech who has to build what the engineers dream up, and this is for a home project, they may offer some leftover that can be made to do the job at half price. |
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0.475" ROD
On 2020-02-06, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... ... ...What would be the standard size of 0.475" stainless rod have been from? Is it just 0.475" rod? What was it from originally? A piece of 1/2" brass rod I added to an Amazon order to meet the $25 free shipping minimum measures 0.490". It is pretty close to 12mm diameter (which is really 0.4724" diameter). How precise was your original measurement (the OP's 0.475" measurement)? I get 12.065 mm from 0.475". Some rod stock is slightly oversized, expecting turning to final dimension. It could be this way with your stainless rod. Several batches of electronic components from them were out-of-spec rejects, though still usable. For example "75V" gas discharge voltage limiters conducted at either under 70V or over 80V. Sounds like the rejects which are sold through some low-budget vendors. Who is the "them" from "from them"? If a low budget vendor, it could easily be the rejects after testing and separately selling those that passed to a high-dollar vendor. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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0.475" ROD
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
... On 2020-02-06, Jim Wilkins wrote: "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ....... Several batches of electronic components from them were out-of-spec rejects, though still usable. For example "75V" gas discharge voltage limiters conducted at either under 70V or over 80V. Sounds like the rejects which are sold through some low-budget vendors. Who is the "them" from "from them"? If a low budget vendor, it could easily be the rejects after testing and separately selling those that passed to a high-dollar vendor. :-) Enjoy, DoN. Them's Amazon. Radio Shack components sometimes showed a gap around the nominal value too, for instance no 10% resistor would be within 5% of nominal since those that were sold separately for more $. The measured breakdown voltage of their diodes and bridges could be anywhere from slightly below spec to far above it, but below a higher spec, ie 450V for a 50V bridge. I only bought the brass rod to reach $25 for free shipping, as it's a size I don't have in my stock, and will be turned down smaller anyway. I need steel shafting to be correctly sized to fit bearings but for brass or aluminum that doesn't I have small 3 and 6 jaw chucks on 5C mounts that are better than collets for moving the work between lathe and mill because they stay clamped. I have a lot of experience testing electronic components so I don't mind buying cheaper out-of spec parts and confirming they'll work for my one-off designs. I was the repair tech for the testing machines Analog Devices used to ensure their op amps meet specs. Most DC parameters can be measured with a voltage and current limited power supply. Usually the data sheet gives everything you need to know, such as the reverse current at the breakdown voltage. High speed production testing uses brief pulses to avoid heating but you can test a few parts mounted on a heatsink. This can measure milliAmps with a different shunt. The current trimpot range is quite wide, I set it to 199.9mA and 19.99mA with 0.5 Ohm and 5 Ohm shunts. https://www.droking.com/Digital-Mult...Shunt-Resistor Type T thermocouple wire is a source of Constantan for low current shunts. The exact resistance of the shunt doesn't matter as long as you can trim the reading to match a DVM in series. |
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