Ian
Notorious member
Well....there's also the opposite, which is analysis paralysis.
Look, the concept is an affordable blank die, right? If a person has the tooling to finish it out, they also have the ability to make a reducing insert. These aren't airplane parts, I think most of us are frugal and would be ok with a dab of epoxy to hold in a sleeve, or even bushing a scrap brass/plastic whatever tube with masking tape to reduce the diameter of the back-bored hole in the few cases where that would even be necessary. If we have lathes, make a piece with a small interference fit, or drill and tap for a set screw. No big deal..
Back-boring .500 about halfway theough the length of the die would take care of most needs. I would also like to see a smooth shank about .375 long at the bottom of the die so that a steady rest could be used for boring operations. I envision a lot of other uses for these blanks such as custom seating dies, expanding dies, etc.
Look, the concept is an affordable blank die, right? If a person has the tooling to finish it out, they also have the ability to make a reducing insert. These aren't airplane parts, I think most of us are frugal and would be ok with a dab of epoxy to hold in a sleeve, or even bushing a scrap brass/plastic whatever tube with masking tape to reduce the diameter of the back-bored hole in the few cases where that would even be necessary. If we have lathes, make a piece with a small interference fit, or drill and tap for a set screw. No big deal..
Back-boring .500 about halfway theough the length of the die would take care of most needs. I would also like to see a smooth shank about .375 long at the bottom of the die so that a steady rest could be used for boring operations. I envision a lot of other uses for these blanks such as custom seating dies, expanding dies, etc.