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Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,

I hope that your visit to the bandage factory goes well - I'll be thinking of you next Thursday while I'm in the dentist's chair having a tooth out! :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye:

Your EDM machine doesn't work on teeth by any chance, does it? Still, I expect the green fluorescent fluid doesn't taste very nice!! :doh: :doh: :doh:

awemawson:
he-he !

Good luck at the dentist and thanks for the good wishes. I've just been mooching around the workshop planning what I can get away with doing whilst I'm on light duties. I've dug out my rotary broach holder and am working out how to make an easy set up to produce the tools as I can see it being pressed into service on the Traub making square and hex recesses.

Each tool is cut from an 8mm round hss blank, and has the desired shape ground in with a 1 degree 30 minute taper relief back from the cutting edge, and a concave ground in the end to give the edge. As I plan to grind them on the J&S 540 surface grinder, the normal dividing head is too large for the table. I'm thinking of making pivoting 'sine table' that a spin indexer can bolt onto, that can be raised with a custom packing strip to give the 1.5 degree tilt for broaches, and lowered to zero tilt for milling copper electrodes for the EDM machine on the Bridgeport. Simple pair of plates pivoted between a hinge made of lugs. Need to work out how much 'daylight' I have to play with on the J&S 540 to see if it's feasible

lordedmond:
Andrew
nice catch on the tool holders

good luck with your visit to see those very nice nurses ( do they still wear those starched aprons and black stockings ) :D

Pete you have my sympathy with the tooth pullers just had two root cannel ones done both in wisdom teeth there 1/2 hour visit each , would not mind but she is only about five foot tall dusky maiden spent most of the time looking into her eyes

Stuart

awemawson:
I've decided that the lighting in the machining enclosure is not up to snuff, so am upgrading it, but as the solution is possibly applicable to other machines I've started another thread here:

http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,9062.msg99297.html#msg99297

Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,

Should you be here today?? I thought today was your date at the bandage factory!!

My tooth was duly pulled this afternoon - a friend had said 'Your appointment is 2:00 PM, half an hour later it will be 2:30' (tooth hurty, get it?! :doh: :doh: :doh: ).

The anaesthetic hasn't fully worn off yet. I've requested the catering department to schedule only meals that can be eaten through a straw for a few days. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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