The Home Machinist!

and the 25% buyers premium is just ridiculous.

Mike do you know who had them?

sure wish that was a Sandley twin. 51 watchers now

Actually this HF hoist is rated at 1300 using the double line. I tried it single line first time I used it.... I think if I could get it mounted to a fishing pole I could set a hook with it, crazy fast. A couple of times I have hooked a small chain hoist to the HF hoist to make it easy to do small a...

When I bought my first lathe almost 30 years ago I got the "best" lowest grade chucks the guy was willing to let go of. In hindsight it would have been far better to of negotiated a better price and left the old wore out chucks and bought the best new I could afford at the time. I finally bought new...

Some years back I built a traveling hoist over the two biggest lathes I have. I used two pieces of medium depth 20' unistrut spaced 4' apart and have a Harbor Freight 1300lb lift electric hoist on a carriage that can travel the length of that unistrut as well as almost the 4' spacing. Unistrut makes...

I don't think it would be all that difficult to arrange for a 10 to 1 or even better gear ratio to get your impeller up to a better speed and keep the motor down in a safe range of operation. Most likely one would have to make their own gears. I have had this type of project on my mind for a number ...

I meant to add you need to edit your info to include at least a general location.

Having pictures and even some better information and I am sure you will be back in business. No reason to scrap a lathe over a small transformer.

I have 3 rotary tables, an 8" Yuasa, a 14" Troyke, and a 20" Troyke. The most used is the 8" but when needed the others have come in handy. The 20" lives on a die lift cart when not in use, the other two I use the overhead hoist to move them. The 8" almost always has a 6" chuck bolted to it. I had m...

It sounds like the timing could use some work and if the video of it where the smoke is going back into the stack is of it actually in reverse it sounds really off in timing. Stephenson valve gear should be capable of being timed to run the same in forward as in reverse. You need to ensure your wate...

Clint used to stop by the shop once in a while when he passed thru the area. Amazingly Jim Adams in the video was age 100 in 2013. He is now 106 and has unfortunately been moved to a nursing home earlier this year. Jim retired off the Illinois Central railroad in 1974 after 33 years of service as a ...