The Home Machinist!

People seem to be absorbed with their I-phones these days and they have little time for anything else. Not uncommon for me to wakeup at 3:00AM with nothing to do besides surf the internet for an hour. It appears forums of all kinds have less and less activity. The past few years I have become more i...

Got any pictures?

Would give anything to see my granddaughter work in my machine shop. She is 16 now

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/jglass/fiber%20optic%20rear.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/jglass/fiber%20optic%20front.jpg The front sights can be purchased but I made my own since I had DayGlow rods on hand. Knowone makes a drop in dayglow sights for an AR-15 carry handle.

Metal chips find their way into the scroll anytime the chuck jaws have been opened up for a large diameter work piece. By this time the scroll is visible and vulnerable to chip entry. When the jaws no longer open or close freely, it is time to clean.

ENCO & MSC was a strange business arrangement where MSC was in competition with itself where identical items were always cheaper at ENCO. Anyone remember J & L Industrial? Another tool cataloge company MSC absorbed. Seems like MSC wants all the tool business for themselves. Yes, I miss ENCO. I would...

It is a 3AT

http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/ ... oth.15035/

The collet at the bottom of the picture is the mystery collet. The collet at the top of the pic is a 3C http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/jglass/Mystery%20collet.jpg The 3C and the mystery collet seem to have the same thread, .639 dia x 26 TPI. The Body Diameter is .688, 2.422" OAL, large diamet...

I make parts for a guitar builder in Nashville. I have a couple of tuners in shop to fit up to the key heads I make for him. I was amazed at how cheap the tuners could be purchased for. My advise is spend your time doing things that can't be purchased so cheap. Don't work to loose money. Took me yea...

My shop almost ran on tooling from ENCO. I really miss them and I dislike MSC even though MSC owned ENCO. It
was a weird arrangement but it worked well for me. I'm still looking for a new tool vendor. Jim

This post has been pretty well covered but thought I would offer some opinions on inside micrometers. I bought a Mitutoyo electronic micrometer 6 years ago. I bought it for my old eyes and thought it may reduce measuring errors. Very nice tool but large, heavy and clumsy to use. Works great ID measu...

Nice sketch. Is that Solidworks?