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Nice pictures. The bucket is awesome!P.S. Farscape was a great show.
Chris,If you have never seen it 'The Engineer' is still going, it's full of useful information and many what would now be called 'newsbytes' Founded in 1856, see Wikipedia. Published in the UK but covers the whole World, sometimes you might not think anything interesting occurs in the UK anymore such is the worldwide coverage. Graces guide has links for mags up to about 1960. It's never been chea\p to subscribe to but is chases the development of all sorts of machines from the initial conception right through to implemtation. On Graces Guide there are links by company - all the shovel manufacturers we know of have mentions. Marion, Bucyrus and Rustons all feature, sometimes with picures of the intenals of their workshops.Today it is essential reading if you are building jet engines, nuclear power plant and anything approaching the cutting edge.Jerry
ChrisI would be interested to know how you centred the cutter.I've only had a couple of goes at gear chopping but if you use the 'trapped feeler gauge' method I could move the cutter up & down by a fair bit and still the blade was vertical. A gear cutter edge being a fairly large radius the procedure does not work as it does 'between centres' ?Dave
Hold something with a sharp point on it in the chuck. Line the gear cutter up with that to center it. That's what I do.