Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 July 2016 15:06:14 andy pugh wrote: > On 13 July 2016 at 23:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > My snips, or sharp scissors always seem to curl it up some. Hows the > > best way to flatten it out so it just lays there? > > Why does it need to? > The Gibb will hold it

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-16 Thread andy pugh
On 13 July 2016 at 23:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > My snips, or sharp scissors always seem to curl it up some. Hows the best > way to flatten it out so it just lays there? Why does it need to? The Gibb will hold it flat. You _could_ consider making a new gib. I have done it

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 July 2016 20:22:50 Ken Strauss wrote: > I use a small 3-in-1 sheet metal machine (something like > http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-Combination-3-in-1-Sheet-Metal-Mach >ine/T2 1320 but from BusyBee in Canada) to cut thick shim stock without > significant distortion. Looks

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Ken Strauss
I use a small 3-in-1 sheet metal machine (something like http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-Combination-3-in-1-Sheet-Metal-Machine/T2 1320 but from BusyBee in Canada) to cut thick shim stock without significant distortion. > -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 July 2016 13:26:14 Jon Elson wrote: > On 07/12/2016 04:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So the question is: Who is likely to be able to supply this stuff > > 0.010" thick by 0.400 wide? Brass or SS would be a never mind. > > I think McMaster-Carr and MSC stock kits of brass shim

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Caroline
I get rid of the curled/rough edge by a bit of grinding/filing and also I roll it with a ball bearing on a bit of ground flat steel with a finger through the bearing pressing down. Sharp scissors or best tins nips Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/12/2016 04:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So the question is: Who is likely to be able to supply this stuff 0.010" > thick by 0.400 wide? Brass or SS would be a never mind. > > I think McMaster-Carr and MSC stock kits of brass shim stock with about 15 thicknesses (.010" definitely in the

[Emc-users] Need some advice on where to buy shim stock in custom widths

2016-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I finally got the compound apart, and found that with the cobble job that made the gib, with the end broken off and looking as if it was ground flat ended with a bench grinder and some new screws installed along with some handmade pusher washers that have a finger that projects