The Home Machinist!

I probably posted this years ago, but here again is the last mill I acquired, I paid $500 for it. Took it apart for cleaning and repair, and the fact it weighed too much for me to handle as one unit. I may have paid $500 for it, but that new DRO cost me over 2 Grand; can't take it with me! The secon...

Here is the Obit for our "Big Dave":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Hospitality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNObtP_Fgo

GREAT RR SCENES!

Even some original Rail Fans!

Here are a lot more details: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=0_ViXK2SEaaMjwSu66voAg&q=lake+shore+drive+beam&oq=Lake+Shore+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i131j0i3j0j0i3j0j0i10l5.3741.11912..15280...0.0..0.342.1790.1j8j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0.ym1XViN48Ns Because I drive a pickup truck,(supposedly...

Yesterday a busy bridge approach over the Chicago River, on Lake Shore Drive, started to shear apart in two girders. Traffic is stopped in all the northbound lanes, until they can build a temporary structure to support it directly under the two shear cracks of the two girders. My problem, is why was...

The AFS just produced a new video called CAREERS IN METALCASTING. Here is their web page. Tho many of us are retired, or years into other careers, there may be a few youngsters here who will find this enlightening. Or, maybe you will wish you had had such a career? https://www.afsinc.org/careers-met...

When I l recently lit off my new MacPro, my email was in an imap account, my olde 2002 MacG4 was ipop. Anyway that difference caused my mail to fill up the space I was allotted, 300mg, so they started rejecting email. I have now corrected it by manually deleting all the stuff that accumulated. Don't...

The feeling one gets when pouring hot liquid metals is akin to the same feelings one gets when a big truck filled with five yards of concrete arrive; it’s NOW or NEVER! I have done a lot of both, not as an employee, but a "Do It Yourselfer". I started pouring metals in the 70’s while teaching physic...

I tried some proffessional graphite coating on my styrofoam patterns, also tried other coatings, yes they helped a little. As far as gating is concerned, I prefer top gating. In the first photo below the pattern is shown with top gating in place, and a graphite coating. In the second photo is a pour...

In the early 1960's IMTS stood for International Machine Tool Show and it was held at the International Amphitheater right in the Chicago Stock Yards. The smell of hay, and other assorted aromas was ever present; Lathes & Mills were located where pigs, sheep, and cattle, had stood a few weeks before...

Here is an older post I made about MCC/TT: http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=103178&start=12 Yep, I had to wait from Jan 2015 thru Dec 2017 for delivery, would not want to do that again. The purchase was thru PayPal, and I let their limit go by; now if would again order, as th...

Here is weathered - At the Illinois Railroad Museum: Below it is new; as built (1/8th scale) from my supplied photos by Dave Sartor in the spring of 2017: The model he made for me stays uncovered into the fall, it's covered between November and April. How long before it looks like the real thing, or...