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316 stainless body fully bored. Going to be adding this piece of Pourcasso magic from @derangeddonkey and adding the mouth piece and bowl also turned from 316. This will be a straight hit Chillum with large bowl. Shaft is bored 1/4” so lots of space for smoke to cool on its way up.
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Neighbor where I work is a former machinist. He has tons of tooling and no lathe so he’s been kind enough to slip stuff my way as he cleans out his garage. This little Carboloy box is one of 2 he’s given me so far full of HSS and Carbide profiles. Going to toss these in the WD40 bath to soak and clean them up in a couple days and sort out what I have. Easily 50 cutters in here.
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Yes indeed you can bore 316 stainless on a Harbor Freight manual lathe. Key is slow speed settings, slow feed rate on the tail stock and lots of cooling oil. Running a Milwaukee Colbalt 1/4” drill bit thru some 3/8” 316 stainless. Going to be a Chillum shaft. Stay tuned for more progress shots over the next 48hrs.
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Fixing my lathe chuck mounting issues (fingers crossed). Stock lathe M6x1.0 socket screws aren’t long enough to fit try backplate to our nuts on. So I have to back them out so far that the chuck wobbles. So I’m sinking M6x1.0 40mm’s. Going to cut the heads off to length and throw nuts on the back. Here goes nothing.
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