Making Use Of The Space Below My Logan 850 Lathe
I just got my Logan 850 on Saturday. It took a lot of rearranging and dejunking to make room for it. I'm in a 1950's excuse for a 1-car garage (I realize that's more space than some have, and I'm...
View ArticleBrass Deflector
First off I need to say I'm not a gun person, so if I get the terminology all crooked please bear with me. But, I do have a buddy who is a gun person and who wanted one of these thingies so he wouldn't...
View ArticleWent Shopping....what Did I Buy??
Hey All, Went to buy a couple of adjustable tail stocks that I ws hoping I could use on my Atlas mill. When I got there the guy had all kinds of "stuff". I ended up as usual buying things that looked...
View ArticleWhat Part Of A Tap Is Hardened?
I want to make a cutting tool out of a broken tap. What part of the tap is typically hardened? The entire tap or just the thread cutting part? Could I use the square drive end for a cutting tool....
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Atlas Horizontal mill
I located a horizontal mill, model MF, ser. number 000556, for sale about an hour away from me and am curious if anyone would have information they might be able to share. I realize it's a small...
View ArticleHey All.......new Here....1st Lathe Coming...
Hey, as the title says, I'm an almost new lathe owner. I'm an almost 57 yr old maker and tinkerer of 50 of those years. Although my shop has seen and holds a tonne of equipment I've yet to own a lathe....
View ArticleBuilding A Z Axis Head On A Universal Mill.
G'day Posted up a while ago in the general section but Im getting closer to collecting all the bits and pieces and have some questions before I go to mauch further. A bit of background. I have a large...
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Those Spacex Guys *really* Are Steely Eyed Missile Men.
Absolutely amazing. The landing back at the Cape was one thing, but this is astoundingly cool. http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/04/0...ating-platform-after-station-resupply-launch/ Reports are coming in...
View ArticleUseful Gear References
As a noob hobby machinist, I needed to do some research on gearing and ran across the following sites that helped me and I thought might be of interest to others...
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My Deal Of The Week Or What Did I Buy ?
I made a post in POTD about dumpster diving for scrap steel now I have people looking for me ! A customer over heard me talking about lathes and he offered some tooling that someone was giving away. I...
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How To Mount A Vn Universal Head On A 22l?
The nice man in the big brown truck brought in a heavy box and put it on my shop table. Inside was a new to me but very old and well used universal subhead. I have a 50 taper spindle on my 22L and a...
View ArticleBozos And Horror Stories
I'm curious to hear about others' shop horror stories. Not your own errors necessarily, but what you've seen done that left you speechless. Poor business practices as well, but in particular I'm...
View Article1340gt Qctp Tool Holder Hanger
I made up a hanger for the quick change tool holder to mount on the PM 1340GT. I have seen a few designs like the one I did from this site as well as others. I'd say I copied Mikes (zmotorsports) to...
View ArticleLathe Tool Size
I just got a Sheldon 10x36 lathe. It's my first and I know nothing. It came with a lantern tool post with 1/4" holders and I added an axa size quick change tool post. As a beginner and with a lathe...
View Article15l Slant Bed Lathe
Does anyone have any experience with the tormach 15l slant bed lathe? I'm looking into buying one and would like to hear opinions and experiences Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk
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My Jet 1236p
Picked this lathe up quite a while ago actually, previous owner's dad was the last person to use it many years before that so it needs a lot of cleaning up. It came with a (literal) truck-load of parts...
View ArticleTips Of Lathe Tool Bits Rolling Up.
After owning my Logan 815 lathe for almost a year I finally got to the steel yard for some 6061 aluminum round stock. Got a nice 3' long piece of 2-1/2" round. My first project was a simple 3/8" thick...
View ArticleMini Cooper Promoted To Newbies (2-30 Posts)
We are pleased to announce that Mini Cooper has been promoted to the Newbies (2-30 Posts) usergroup.
View ArticlePeerless Power Hacksaw
View attachment 124695 The View attachment 124693 Hello Everyone, I have been given a power hacksaw made by the Peerless company ,Racine,Wi. This has a pat. Date of May 7,1912. It looks fairly complete...
View ArticleCompressor Motor Choice
Ok, I am looking to fix up a older Gardner Denver ADD-1011 compressor. Original specs show a 5 HP motor. I am in the process of deciding which motor to buy, but it has boiled down to 1 of 3 companies:...
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