The Home Machinist!

You can make that rust brown a number of different ways. I've read that one way an old gunmaker browned his barrels was by urinating on them regularly. He had a rack outside the back door of his shop.

I needed a drawbar last month. I had a long bolt with the wrong thread, and a short boolt with the right (metric) thread. I cut the threads off both bolts. But my torch was out of gas, as was the Mig, and I need to join the long bolt shank to the metric thread piece. So I tried friction welding. Chu...

Thanks for posting this. There was a similar thread recently (perhaps on another forum) about using a lathe for this. I have determined (and most agreed) that the lathe should be a purpose-built brake lathe to get the right result. But thinking about this later I considered doing it on the mill as y...

That Grizzly model is the Seig X3. Google that and you will get LOTS of good hits. Basically, it's a minimill on steroids, and a very solid machine. It's big enough you will need a hoist to move it. There are a lot of people CNCing them also, so if you later decide to try that out, there is a well-w...

TIG some fresh AL, file to shape?
How big an area are we talking about?

Many people suggest electrification, but since the track is on the ground, no one has been able to explain how we keep the current from going to earth. I don't see a problem here. With a low voltage DC source (12V battery) to the rail, and the other pole to the screen, with an insulator backing if ...

Wail of the Banshee

Lay a strip of aluminum screen wire alongside the rail where this is happening. Clip 12V battery leads to the rail and to the screen. Hope they don't start chewing the batter leads ;) A friend once used a variation of this to stop a cat peeing on his chrome wheels. Only it was 110V :shock: Problem s...

I'd be interested in details of your waste oil furnace.

Geez, I hope you bought a lottery ticket on your way home with it!

That's a nice-looking old girl.
I'm not a SB fan, but I'd have bought that one.

That pretty much sums it up!