Well, also, even though I said I didn't want to make tools for it, after thinking about it for a bit, one could make a single left hand boring bar that would cover a reasonable range of bore diameters.
The horizontal socket is a through hole, unlike the vertical position socket. That's why I guess they provide so many vertical boring bars in a kit.
And it's not that hard to make a single left handed boring bar using an indexable insert -- seems like a single bar would cover the full range of reasonable stick out diameters.
And the advantage would be you don't have to remember to run in reverse (not that I would ever do that!)
The horizontal socket is a through hole, unlike the vertical position socket. That's why I guess they provide so many vertical boring bars in a kit.
And it's not that hard to make a single left handed boring bar using an indexable insert -- seems like a single bar would cover the full range of reasonable stick out diameters.
And the advantage would be you don't have to remember to run in reverse (not that I would ever do that!)