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finally was able to get some turning going on last night

Nailed all my measurements

Next monday I should be able to start cutting, our instructor recommended this video for a refresher over the math from last week for the future

so finished up the class last night, since I had completed my threading project last week the instructor said we could do whatever we wanted, so I figured I would get back to my die project. I cut a piece of A36 at home and brought it in with me. The school had a carbide face mill that I used.

Cut through that hard outer scaling like butter, so I ordered one this morning.

I faced up the rest of the sides and had a width of 1.960, so I found my outer edge.

And milled out the middle

I only had about 45 minutes left in class so instead of just getting the other side started, I cleaned up and thanked the instructor and went home. I'm going to finish the other side, cut out the ends for mounting tabs, cut it down the middle with my bandsaw and I will have my die's pretty much done. Much easier this way than the way I was doing it before.

got my first job!

A friend wants me to try and replicate a barrel block for his thompson, I'm doing it for free in case I screw it up, but it's practice!