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Hi,
It’s on here somewhere, the Bogs grind for a fly cutter.
I think it is part of one of Bog’s articles, however I can’t find it. I ground mine by memory of what I’d read, so probably not that good but it does a fantastic job on plastic & pretty good on aluminum.

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Hi Chris,
Just done a binge read to catch up!
Great work, should have remembered that your shop runs 24-7!

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Hi Roger,
Thanks for posting the pictures!
It’s 6 years ago that we tried to meet up there, were has the time gone!
The gent from Germany that told me about there fun weekend was going to be on when we were in Zurich & I are still in contact.
It sure is a fabulous track, there guys I meet were great & keen to compare Model Engineering from down under with what they were upto!

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Hi Kim,
Just done a catch-up read, life’s been pretty shit round here for the last month, real good progress!

Couple of things, soft soldering stainless, best flux is Duzall, that is if the safety types still allow it, just gotta make sure your shop is well ventilated.
  A rotabroach is the bee’s knees for cutting holes like your windows! No center required, they have a spring loaded center, you are supposed to center punch, but I found as long as you take it gentle you can get away with it, the best thing is they don’t care if they aren’t cutting a full circle!

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Hi Kim,
Isn’t tender “a place for beer storage in elf”?……

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Hi Kim,
Just done a catch up! Boy you have been busy! Well done great progress!
Going back a couple of pages…. The boring head….. I tried a run in reverse….. yep started to unscrew in a micro second! I’ve changed from the brazed on bits that came with the head that cut, well if you call it that, to use tipped boring bars FAR better. Mine are 12mm I got a couple & cut down to lengths using the 9 piece brazed ones as a guide that are mentioned in the sales stuff, tried full length but too much spring. After the wee oops I jumped on eBay & a seller there was offering both left & right plus a 10 pack of tips at a reasonable rate, hopefully make next time less heart stopping! Oh the other thing to do is drill the head & fit a grub / set screw to lock the head & the taper fitting together.
For the bell on Toby I found a candle snuffer was pretty close to bell shape, it didn’t take much to remove the handle & make a way of hanging it, for the clapper….. a ball bearing on a rod works well! I was lucky on the frame mine was steel!

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Hi Mike,

Just had a catch-up…. Gob smacking work!! Absolutely amazing!

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Nice work Kim! The whole project is really coming along.

Have recently got home from our sons place a bit north & across the boarder from you. It got down to -10 C while we were there. Last week it was in the -40’s C! Far too cold for this soft kiwi! Mean time back home we are in the mid to hi. 20’s C

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Hi Jason,
That’s great!
I’ll send you a PM with details

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Hi Kim,
Nice work!
To get your curves did you think of swapping out the tool bit in your tangential holder? They hold a 1/4” round bit, broken center drills work well. The bit holder sharpener works for them too. Or you could get onto a side project & make up a ball turner.

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Hi Kim,
Just done a catch up! You must have a good cookie jar the elevens have out done themselves! Really nice work!

A bit late for your safetys, instead of whacking the balls to get a seat, try using a press, aka your vice. One of the guys on another forum does it this way & you get a more uniform seat. The other good thing is those suckers are so hard you don’t deform them when forming the seat & can use them instead of binning it as you should do with a stainless one.

Keep up the good progress!

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Hi Michael,
That’s a nice looking pump! Really nice to see something a bit different. Hope you solve your issue with it

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Hey Jason,
Look very collectable! Any chance you would international ship?

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Hi Nicolas,
Nice purchase! Hope you get many years of pleasure using it.

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Hi Kim,
More trials & tribulations behind you! Well done, coming along nicely!

You need to sort out your top slide power feed, cranking the handle to do long parts like that looses its appeal quite quickly........ sure youve got a battery drill sitting in the corner .... you know the one its got the sign over saying...."PICK ME!"

Welcome to the "had covid club!" Best advice when your body says sit down i need a rest, do it! Both my wife & i found that once we had eaten all we wanted to do was sit... took a couple of weeks for that to pass.

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