The Home Machinist!

Many thanks, OutboardGuy 44!

Thank you, Bob!

Many thanks, Rich! That's a good start.

Has anyone out there ever fittted a Clausing 8520 milling machine with a DRO? I am considering installation of a 2 axis (X, Y) DRO... if this is not a major task that will require extreme modification to the machine. If there are any machinists that have done this, and you don't mind sharing the det...

The polished All American gauge has been sold. All others remain.

I have 3, 200 psi, 1 1/4 inch outside diameter flanged case, All American pressure gauges for sale including the syphons. They have never been steamed. One of the cases is still polished brass, the other two have become dull due to storage. These gauges are threaded 3/16-32 N.S. Price is $120.00 eac...

How large of a pump are you talking about? Do you have drawings? What materials are needed?

Let me know... maybe I can help you.

This coming weekend is the annual display of steam machinery at the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum in Meridian, Mississippi. Many stationary and other types of steam powered artifacts will be under steam at the former Soule Steam Feed Works on the edge of downtown Meridian. Check their websi...

Tim,

Again, I appreciate your generous offer. I'm glad it found a good home.

stevec, I'm extremely pleased with those readings, too. I purchased the lathe, new, in early 1978. It has been pampered for years and has seen very little heavy machining operations. The lathe also had many months of inactivity before my retirement. It is much more active now. Most of the projects I...

stevec, I just measured the spindle run-out on the OD of the shoulder behind the threaded nose and just inside the bore, I got .0003 at both points. Once again, I was using my Starrett 711-D and could not get much farther behind the chamfer of the spindle bore. I repositioned the dial indicator twic...

stevec, Thanks for the input. When I said , "I need...", maybe I should have said, "hope for". CDCO's claim of .0004 TIR for the chuck may be possible, but I know that the QC of unknown Chinese manufacturers can be hit-and-miss at best. Using a chuck with a machined backing plate...