Kwik-way line boring

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fordfixer

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Was looking at purchasing a kwik-way line boring set up. Can we still get the tool bits that are 5/16th inches to make face off cutters?
 
If you talk to your local insert tooling supplier ,he will have something.
I got all insert tools for my old boring bar.
Lawrie
 
fordfixer said:
Was looking at purchasing a kwik-way line boring set up. Can we still get the tool bits that are 5/16th inches to make face off cutters?
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By typing "5/16 high speed tool bit" in my search, I got about 10 pages of places that have them. Ebay was one.

If you are going to use it to face a thrust surface, you will probably have to grind it yourself and dial it in on the bar you will use.
 
Try Lacy Williams Equipment—- 908-387-0087
Don’t know about now, they used to have insert cutters for LBM, perhaps they have thrust cutter too
 
Not sure that Coder has line boring tools, but worth a call. If not, any tool and cutter grinding shop can grind round high speed steel cutter blanks into facing tools.
 
MSC Industrial Supply. Part #72678121. It will say TRC5 C2 on it.
They just need a little massaging to work. The back round side should be sanded down a
little until they just slide thru the hole in the bar.
Try it like it is, but I massaged the tip with a touch more radius to get it to cut like I like.

They also have one that will work for the facing cutter I don't remember the part number.
 
Dodge said:
MSC Industrial Supply. Part #72678121. It will say TRC5 C2 on it.
They just need a little massaging to work. The back round side should be sanded down a little until they just slide thru the hole in the bar.
Try it like it is, but I massaged the tip with a touch more radius to get it to cut like I like.

They also have one that will work for the facing cutter I don't remember the part number.
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Hey Mr. 'R'., ...that was always the issue I had when I had the K-W style cutters made was that the boring bar hole seemed like it was about 0.001-0.002 undersized from what they started as blanks.

I haven't used my LBM in awhile but I also recall that the OE set screws had an imbedded ball to align the cutter to be parallel with the length of the bar. The original K-W cutters had a groove in them, didn't they? What do you do when you are using those MSC cutters with K-W set screws? Do you grind a groove in those or change out the set screw?
 
Yes as Dan says the flat works just fine. and the fact that you have to take a little off
the MSC cutters to get them to fit the hole you can get a good fit and the cutters don't move.
 
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