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tinkerer:
I made my monthly trek to the recycler. I swap my coke cans for whatever I can find and this is what I walked out with. I know I need a milling machine to make use of most of it, but that could happen one day. I don't know if my lathe will even scratch some of these bolts.

Darren:
Nice catch ...

I'd guess that big pin will be as hard as (put your own words here) and that block on the end with the hole in it might be cast steel  (tough). If it's cast iron then you have been lucky.

Both are machinable, just don't stick your best HSS cutter on them or you'll be  :(

Bolts are usually great to machine, well all mine have been so far  :thumbup:

chuck foster:
nice find  :thumbup:, i have machined lot's of bolts, sometimes you get one that is kinda tough but most of them are ok.

i found a piece of what looked like brass but man oh man it was so hard i couldn't machine it at all..............took it back to the scrap yard.

chuck  :wave:

tinkerer:
I am thinking the clevis pin will be like trying to machine a diamond with a peanut. That shiny bolt on the left may be tough too. I think the rest will be OK. I am really getting a bug to sell some of the woodworking tools and buy a mill.

Bernd:
Tinkerer,

I'd get the mill and keep the wood working equipment. Maybe the routers could go. The mill is nothing more than a router made for metal. And I hear wood and metal working machines are interchangeable.  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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