The Home Machinist!

Those pesky rodents! I’ve been fighting them for years. I have a very old rototiller with a worn out smoky B&S engine that puts out carbon monoxide by the gallon. The muffler port has pipe threads for a pipe nipple that screws into the little muffler. The OD of the nipple is about 1-1/4” so I we...

Well it’s just a 4” slab in my workshop and no reinforcement.

Just wondering, but it looks like you already have a Precision Matthews lathe, any reason you went with a Jet mill? When I was shopping for a mill recently I looked at the Jet mills but finally chose PM. Any reason you chose Jet over PM? My new PM-833T mill is made in Taiwan not mainland China and I...