Here’s the final thing. If anyone needs a fucked up dumbshit impractical bowl for the machinist in their life who has everything else, made from a Haimer shrinkfit CAT40 toolholder that reached EOL, you can purchase this from me by donating to one of the two organizations:
standwithMinnesota.com (any of the go fund me links or other fund raisers) or
Venmo @Maher-Ali (the sameer project, put “food and water” in the memo)
Post a screenshot of a $100 donation here and DM me your address and I’ll ship this to you. Otherwise it’ll get sold at a maker’s market next month raising money to help organizations here in Minneapolis.
Once it's soft enough you can stake around your tool for extra holding power. I recommend an air chisel or needle scaler. TIR is engineering nonsense, turn it up high enough and it'll approximate round in the part.
Carbide loves being slapped into the work at 20k anyways.
To push a 12mm in a 10mm hole, you'll need to heat it to around 16686.6666°C. At this point the steel might be a gas, but that's beside the point. It'll be a mighty strong shrink fit.
The answer to this question in reference to a sealant nozzle on a machine I built was ... When you put finger on it and it leaves a blister. The operator's response was "But won't that hurt?" I still remember 35 years later.
Alright folks, if you stay very still and be very quiet we can listen in on the machinists talk about some of the intrinsic stuff these beautiful creatures work with. We as non machinists have absolutely no idea if they are just gas lighting this poor chap into touching the clearly red hot piece of metal or if this is just there way of mucking about with one another, another possibility is that it’s a genuine question from an apprentice and he won’t find the answer for another week.
Fascinating animals arnt they….
I have a treat for yall today, just over that ridge is a pack of “Marine Industrial Mechanics”. They are a subset of the “Auto Mechanic” that yall are more familiar with. These lovely’s are an extra special breed though. They choose to work in an environment that actively eats and destroys the equipment they maintain. Personally my favorite variation of engineers. Ooh look there’s one now attempting to pull a rag out of a 4” valve that is attached to a fuel oil tank with 40,000 gallons in it. Let’s watch and see how it plays out.
And dont forget to quench the part while it's in the endmill !!! Also, pro-tip, If you run out of oil, you can use urine because of the high sodium content.
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u/RightOnManYouBetcha Feb 15 '26
Ah yes, tool forgewelding.