Saddle Question
I have a South Bend 9c and today I took a look at what I believe is a 9a with the quick change gear box. I'm not 100% sure if it's a 9a though, under model it just has an "A" so I would assume that it...
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Bridgeport Mill Rebuild By Kay Fisher
Bridgeport Mill - Rebuild by Kay Fisher Visitor Counter click here. Errol accepts cash, check, money order and PayPal. He has... Bridgeport Mill Rebuild By Kay Fisher
View ArticleOt: Best Tooling Purchase?
Just out of curiosity, if you had to buy any piece of tooling again what would it be? My vote goes to parallels, no more hunting around for HSS tool bits and round bar stock to use.
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Easy Cnc Conversion Of A Small Mill
Easy CNC conversion of a small mill by fred27 Download My first Instructable made use of a small CNC milling machine. I've found this machine really useful so I... Easy Cnc Conversion Of A Small Mill
View ArticleFirewood Processor
I heat my house and shop with a wood fired boiler, burn about 20 face cord a year. I buy a load of logs and cut them up by hand, this year my son helped and we were done in 5 days,so not a huge task,...
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Converting Your Old Mill Or Lathe To Cnc
Converting Your Old Mill or Lathe to CNC ​For many mill owners, do-it-yourself projects provide a relaxing way to escape day-to –day pressures. For some, the idea of turning a manual mill into a more...
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Converting A Mill To Cnc
CONVERTING A MILL TO CNC 16 Comments by: Brian Benchoff January 24, 2012 For most of the past year, [Joel] has been working on converting a manual mill to... Converting A Mill To Cnc
View ArticleConversion Of A Sieg Sx2 Manual Mill To Cnc
Conversion of a Sieg SX2 Manual Mill to CNC By DomanoSV On December 26, 2013 In Projects With Comment Off This project started after I started work as a site electrician at a Foundry/Machine shop...
View ArticleMill From The Top Or The Side?
I have 2 pieces of 2 by 2 angle iron, 3/8ths thick. I'm using my gorton 9-j mill. Is it best to mill on the vertical leg, with a cutter or the horizontal leg with a rougher. I need to remove 1/2 inch...
View ArticlePick-o-matic Bracket Broken
I just bought a Atlas V-36 and find that the outer gear bracket is broken. Not the main one with 3 slots that the gears attach to but the one that has a single slot. In watching some Youtube videos of...
View ArticlePm-727m With Dro
Hello. This is my first post on the forum - although I have been lurking for a few months. After being introduced to machining a couple of years back and finding a local machinist who let me use his...
View ArticleNew Guy: Upgrade Parts Or Entire Lathe?
Hi all. New to the home machinist world. I recently purchased a used Central Machine 7x10 (SKU 33684) and I am really enjoying the process, but already finding myself wanting a larger lathe setup. I...
View ArticlePm 932 Capacitor Explosion
View attachment 127577 And I thought it was going to be a dull evening. Had a capacitor go bang on my PM 932 in the middle of a small project I was working on. Definitely got my attention, as if the...
View ArticleMonarch Seris 50 Lathe Problems
I finally got the rotophase connected to the 50 series monarch. The start circuit for the control power had some issues but I have a good electrical drawing. I rewired the start stop buttons and the...
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Question On Milling A Slot
Hi All - I'm making a part and have a need to mill a couple of slots into a piece of CRS. The feature I'm asking about is circled in pic below... The slot is .125" deep and .125" tall. I was thinking...
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13 Piece R8 Collet Set Is It Enough? ??
I have a jet mill drill up until now I've just been using the couple collet that came with it 1/4 3/8 1/2 I would like to get a complete set and I'm trying to figure if a13 piece 1/8-7/8 by sixteenth...
View ArticleHow Did I Do On This South Bend Purchase?
I just purchased this lathe but have yet to get it into my shop. I have been reading up on the South Bend 9" lathes but I am an amateur at best (only about 20 hours using a lathe, but I am a mechanical...
View Article10 Hp Rotary Phase Converter
Hi all, Will a 10 hp rotary phase converter run a 10 hp motor? I know you are supposed to have a larger phase converter for your largest motor you are running.And for the starting load of the motor....
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