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  1. mitch

    Help, please: Chuck key needed - resolved

  2. mitch

    Help, please: Chuck key needed - resolved

    I’m actually a fan of Harbor Disposables! BUT you gotta be careful what you buy there. In general, anything with a motor should be avoided, but they have a lot of basic odds n ends cheap. I’m even occasionally pleasantly surprised at the performance of some products. Work gloves, for one (or...
  3. mitch

    Help, please: Chuck key needed - resolved

    Harbor Freight. When it only has to work once! Maybe.
  4. mitch

    One year to Master?

    What’s that all about?
  5. mitch

    Question: c-max carbide grade

    What are you trying to say? That GRS charges a lot for something that might be had cheaper from an industrial supplier, if only you could suss out the correct material? Personally, I think their prices tend to be high (and shipping ridiculous), but you’re also paying for them having already...
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    One year to Master?

    Funny you mention that. He crossed my mind too in the last month or so.
  7. mitch

    fixture

    Is that a small vice? For a magnablock the scale looks like the fixture would be really big for holding .308 brass. Maybe a shot with an empty case in it, ready to engrave, would help with my perceptual difficulty.
  8. mitch

    fixture

    This is what I’m seeing:
  9. mitch

    fixture

    Did you attach the correct photo? The caption says it’s for holding pistol cylinders, and that’s what it looks like. An interesting set up, but not for .308 brass.
  10. mitch

    Motorbike engraving

    Universal Engraver’s Lube?
  11. mitch

    Motorbike engraving

    This is second hand, but it seems to me some have recommended the aluminum formula of Tap-Magic.
  12. mitch

    Recycling 24k gold scrap?

    Update: I did sell it to a local jeweler who I occasionally do some work for. He was happy to buy and at a slightly better percentage of spot price than I would have gotten from Rio with no postage. Win win.
  13. mitch

    Micro Engraving

    Thanks for posting that, but mostly because there was another story on the site about a photography contest on Nextdoor. The grand prize winner is a shot of two young Great Horned Owls which was taken not too far from me. The guy who took the pic posted it on our local Nextdoor a few weeks ago.
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    Recycling 24k gold scrap?

    As it turns out I’m still listed as a “wholesale account”, which was a bit of a surprise since I haven’t exactly been a huge customer over the last 40yrs, but I’m not gonna argue with them. As for recycling it myself, I don’t even think there’s a crucible around here anymore, I know I don’t...
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    Recycling 24k gold scrap?

    For decades I’ve used Rio Grande, but it appears they no longer offer this service to “standard” customers. Any suggestions? Anybody want to buy 6.6 grams, 10.25DWTs, of clean 24k directly from me? Or did i do that backwards? 1.555 grams per DWT? So 6.6grams = 4.24DWT?
  16. mitch

    Engraving concave areas

    You’re welcome. Obviously it will feel a little weird to use at first with such a steep angle of attack, but you get used to it.
  17. mitch

    Engraving concave areas

    Really steep, 30-35deg, heels, with a correspondingly shallow face to maintain a more or less consistent point geometry. Grind and polish a radius on the belly line of the graver so it doesn’t scratch if it contacts an adjacent surface.
  18. mitch

    Hello new member here from northern indiana

    You might want to do some small customization of the etching with hand engraving BUT you will definitely not want to try doing it all that way. It will take forever to cut that much that deep. For what it’s worth, I think the etched heads look pretty nice.
  19. mitch

    Help please! 75 degree graver

    Just curious what you need a 75 for?
  20. mitch

    Needle file question

    I have a bunch of needle and escapement files that are ground finer/narrower to suit whatever i was working on. I also have some with “safed” sides that are ground, stoned, and polished to cut perfect inside corners. It’s often critical to file only one side of a space/gap/joint at a time.

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