The Home Machinist!

I have an old Bridgeport DRO made by Dynamics Research. It has about 6 dials for each number to set them individually. I plugged it in once and it does light up. Will this work for you?

Regards,

Buddy Borders
Philadelphia, PA

Last year I got a deal on a Decho RS-3 unit but I discovered I had a bad amplifier in it when I got to power it up. I stripped out everything and put a Dallee unit in it with their 22 watt amplifier and it sounds good. I hope it will sound better after I replace the aging speakers. All of the sounds...

I have a through-the-wall heat pump in my reasonably well insulated shop/garage. It takes a while to get things toasty at times, but overall performs quite well. Being a heat pump, it also has a backup heat strip when the temps dip below 37F. If I had it to do all over again, I would opt for a mini-...

Hi Bill, If you are going to use the LocoParts pilot truck, the hole for the axle pump needs to be off center in the base of the smokebox saddle. Mine got drilled on center and I had considered using a "W" shaped cross bar and two eccentrics to drive the pump. I got this idea after talking...

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The only reason I can think of to have the bolt on style cylinder bars is if you want to convert to a 10 wheeler down the road. Otherwise the welded way works fine. I have both styles of Rogers/Cooke frames on the 2 Moguls I'm building (occasionally). If you haven't figured it out yet, there is a li...