Does anyone know where to sell tooling & or inspection equipment (boring bars, endmills, indicators). Is there a website besides "ebay" that is more directed towards manufacturing. Part of an agreement i was given a certain percentage of a business so buying my own tooling out of pocket was a condition. Things did not go well. Now i have a few things i couldn't get rid of was hoping for so help. All ideas welcome thank you

I WOULD TRY THE NEXT "H" SIZE UP. MOST TIME IVE ROLLED TAPPED I WAS PUTTING A HELICOIL IN THE HOLE SO PLATING WAS NOT REALLY AN ISSUE. BUT IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO SIZE I THINK EACH "H" NUMBER YOU GO UP, OPENS THE THREAD .0005 TOTAL .00025 EACH SIDE. THAT SHOULD GET YOU THERE BUYING CUSTOM GAUGE UNLESS ITS A PRODUCTION RUN (HIGH QUANTITY) MIGHT BE PRICEY .

In the second to last picture where you ask to get rid of machining marks it looks like you are cutting a big radius or arc. depending on your machine when the "x" or "y" change from negative to positive or vise versa. The machine depending on maintenance and age might jump or shake witch will cause that. i worked on an old machine where we would machine a circle and the bore would have 4 vertical lines. one at 3 o'clock 6 9 12 because this is were the axis go from neg. to pos. but as far as the sharp corner it just looks like you need to play around in mastercam a bit more try different tool paths to get it right and as you can see the mastercam simulation is pretty close to what your going to get.

Thank very much i will look into getting some new cutters and jaws at 60deg. to see if it helps.

no the jaws are 45 deg. dove tail. i tested the hardness on our rockwell hardness tester "c" scale. new jaws are 45 on the "c" scale old jaws are 54 on the "c" scale the jaws are both from the same company same part number but the test shows they are quite different

UMM OF COARSE THAT WAS THE FIRST THING I DID. THEN I WAS REALLY NICE TO THEM. PLAYED GOOD COP BAD COP THEM SONS OF FEMALE DOGS ARE STILL GIVING ME JAW DROPPING PROBLEMS. BUT I THINK THE OLD BEAR IS RIGHT MAYBE THEY ARE TO HARD/ BRITTLE. ATLEAST THATS WHAT IM GOING TO RUN WITH BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA THINGS RAN GREAT NOW THEY ARENT. BUT THAT GOES FOR A FEW THINGS HERE. THANKS GUYS FOR NOTHING JK

YOU CAN SEE EVEN THE WAY THEY BREAK IS ALMOST IDENTICAL ON TH OLDER ONES. BUT THE NEW SET I JUST GOT, BREAK A LOT DIFFERENT THEN THE NEW ONES. F.pdf

IM USING DOVE TAIL JAWS FROM (V75100-5R) WWW.FIFTHAXIS.COM . I RECENTLY JUST BOUGHT A FEW MORE SETS BUT THEY SEEM TO KEEP BREAKING ON ME. ITS LIKE THE PART IS WEDGING UNDER THE JAW. IVE HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN THIS OFTEN. THIS IS A JOB WE HAVE BEEN RUNNING FOR MONTHS WE HAD JAWS BREAK BUT AROUND THE 1500 PIECES MARK ITS AN AWKWARD CUT BUT NOW IM GETTING MAYBE 150-200 PARTS BEFORE I HAVE PROBLEMS. SAME PROGRAM SAME OPERATOR SAME END MILLS (DATA FLUTE) ANY IDEAS? MATERIAL--INCO 718 HARDENED

JUST RECENTLY PUT A 5 AXIS TRUNNION ON MY MACHINE. ITS A T5C2. IT A FIXTURE THAT HAS 2 5C COLLETS TO HOLD THE PART. WHEN I TRY AND RUN MY PROGRAM I GET TO ~G234~ LINE THEN IT GIVES ME AN ALARM. THE MACHINE TELLS ME THE SUB PROGRAM IS NOT IN MEMORY. IM NOT CALLING ANY SUB OR ATLEAST IM NOT SEEING IT. MAYBE THERE IS A PARAMETER I HAVE TO CHANGE OR A 9000 SUB PROGRAM THAT GOT DELETED ANY IDEAS?? T1 M06 (3/8 FLAT ENDMILL 6 FL INCO.718) G54 G17 G90 S1426 M03 G00 M08 A2.727 C-180. X.585 Y-.5255 G187 P2 (PROGRAM STOPS HERE) G234 H1 X.585 Y-.5255 Z3.7432 <======*** X.585 Y-.5255 Y-.3457 Z-.0325

JUST RECENTLY PUT A 5 AXIS TRUNNION ON MY MACHINE. ITS A T5C2. IT A FIXTURE THAT HAS 2 5C COLLETS TO HOLD THE PART. WHEN I TRY AND RUN MY PROGRAM I GET TO ~G234~ LINE THEN IT GIVES ME AN ALARM. THE MACHINE TELLS ME THE SUB PROGRAM IS NOT IN MEMORY. IM NOT CALLING ANY SUB OR ATLEAST IM NOT SEEING IT. MAYBE THERE IS A PARAMETER I HAVE TO CHANGE OR A 9000 SUB PROGRAM THAT GOT DELETED ANY IDEAS?? T1 M06 (3/8 FLAT ENDMILL 6 FL INCO.718) G54 G17 G90 S1426 M03 G00 M08 A2.727 C-180. X.585 Y-.5255 G187 P2 (PROGRAM STOPS HERE) G234 H1 X.585 Y-.5255 Z3.7432 <======*** X.585 Y-.5255 Y-.3457 Z-.0325