This is an annotated sketch of the Kaiser Piccolo sliding stop. I drawed it after Erik asked me about. Maybe it could be useful for someone else. Kaiser Piccolo boring head sliding stop sketch

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Kaiser Piccolo Howto

This post shows the kind of works that can be done with a Kaiser Piccolo boring head. It includes the usual boring work but also the facing work usind the automatic travel of the head and an example of peg turning. The usual boring head tooling is also reviewed.

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Some time ago I found somewhere a very interesting Deckel technical notice about how to work with the slotting head on an universal milling machine. I guess it could be of general interest and thus I share it: Deckel Butlletin technique 2/72: «Travaux de mortaisage sur machines FP»

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After a request from Chris Maron, in this entry I report about the Boley-Leinen LZ4SB carriage stops. I would like the entry to be sufficiently detailed to allow anyone to reproduce the original stops. Sadly, I have no cross slide stops. If you, beloved reader, have these stops, I invite you to report about them and let me know! I should add that the stops shown here are of “ordinary” type.

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