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Welcome Keen to the forum. :D Is Keen a nick name? Just asking as Keen is my nick name, although only my family calls me that. It is always good to include your physical location in your avatar as others near you may be of assistance if needed. :D Is this your first mill. If it is it's a dandy. Your...

Maybe it was a fluke but I have been in Scottsdale when there was frost on the ground.

Good to see so many registered users on line today(Sunday). Must be the bad weather.

Thank you.

Maybe converting to steam should be on my new years list.

Some members of a local hobby machinists club used to go there and sometimes Lilly would fire up one of the two steam engines. Man, what a sight. You could feel the floor shake on every stroke. The one in your pic is the one she fired up. Lilly was, maybe still is, the caretaker of the plant and ope...

Pat, mine is 3 PH also, running off a rpc. I will be making just the base plate and flapper.

Nice work Pat and a good idea. I will have to make one for my Delta Unisaw. Not haveing a 3D printer thou, I will have to fabricate mine the old fachioned way.

Harold, ditto all the above.

Jack

Good news indeed, and great job on the fix.

Amazon has one , 5step .98" bore.

"Generic A Type Pagoda Pulley. o.98"-5.9"."...$12.99

What a find and what skill in saving that gun.