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Cheers Willie 
That a very interesting link ,a site I will have to good dig around in .  the site has a downloadable copy of the brochure I have .
I thought the color coding is very cunning ,smart idea ,well as long as you know your port from starboard  . Well I better have a look of Ebay for a yellow handled set .
They do look well made , I will give them a test drive at the weekend on the forge hood .
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the company in question isn't in business now I believe.
and yes the red and green denotes right hand cut and left hand cut, there is also a pair that have yellow handles for straight cuts.
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I got my new DROs today. One set for the Victoria U2 and one set for the RF-30. I had iGaging units on before, but I figured, as long as I'm rebuilding the shop, I might as well upgrade wherever possible.
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Usually I am in the US for a couple of weeks this time of year. However, various things conspired against me this year. Fortunately, my Mum went over to visit friends and just returned, so I managed to get some bits shipped to where she was staying.
The MT4 drill drift, 1.0mm, 1.5mm and 2.0mm slitting saws and the #3 and #6 Jacobs chuck removal wedges all came via Enco. The Prototex H M10x1.5 spiral point tap is from eBay and the S-VMSP 138R 45CF chamfer/face mill is from Ken's source.
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Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
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Wiss aviation snips are the industry standard. I used to do a lot of aircraft sheet metal work and those were all we used. They also makes an offset version that works much better for cutting contours in the middle of a large sheet. Unlike a lot of the old US tool lines, these are still actually made in the US, the Cooper plant in North Carolina I believe.
Here is a Wiss timeline.
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I stay away from snips. Over the years, I have discovered that all I have to do is LOOK at a piece of sheet metal, and I'm cut and bleeding somewhere!
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This arrived today. Thanks Russ!
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