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OK, no pictures from this week. I am busy making some barrel bushings which is in essence a round piece of steel with a big hole in the middle. Of course, some of these are easy as there is no taper on the hole. However, four of these do need a tapered hole. These are 1.3, 2.5, 2.95 and 3.1 degrees. Takes some time to setup and adjust the boring bar for these. I finished the tapered holes and am happy that I got most of them within .002" of the target. We were allowed to do these to .005".

I did purchase a set of carbide cutting tools last week. Love them so far!