Kwik-way line boring

[fordfixer]

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?

[Lawrie]

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]

I tried Goodson and Regis and McMaster Carr. No luck. If you have a name of a supplier, I would appreciate it.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by fordfixer

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?

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.

[Kurt in NJ]

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

[johnneilson]

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try http://codersupply.com/index.html

[Dan McEachern]

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.

[fordfixer]

Thanks to all. I’ll continue my search with this info.

[Lawrie]

let me know if you want some pics of the tooling I made using the inserts tools.
Lawrie

[Dodge]

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.

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by Dodge

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.

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?

[Dan McEachern]

A simple flat on the tool bit seems to work just as well as the OE groove.

[Dodge]

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.