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You may want to try Stock Drive products if you're based in USA for pre made nylon gear stock or even McMaster for gear stock.

Stock Drive Products -

https://www.sdp-si.com/products/Gears/Index.php

If you're not seeing any immediate use for a hot glue gun or aren't into crafting work and are just curious then just buy what's on sale at the big box stores or horror freight, make sure the one you get has compatibility with other brands glue sticks. Personally I use the 3M hotmelt glue guns, very...

Aquarium pumps are pretty quiet, but for chip clearing it'll do a miserable job it'll barely move wood chips let alone metal.

Steggy, Warmstrong, thanks for more info, that chart explains it all.

Thanks Russ, I really don't have much use for nuts like that, especially the size of these ( 5/8 - 11 )
nyloc nuts work fine for me. Some ( heck, quite a few ) dont seem to 'seize up' as I thread them onto a corresponding bolt.
Guess it's a trip to the metal scrappers with these.

I recently bought a small parts cabinet from a a friend, the cabinet is the kind you used to find in hardware stores, a sliding covered drawer with compartments, it also ( conservatively estimated) came with probably 150 lbs of bolts, nuts and washers. I came across these in the haul, I've never see...

For chatter, I am still fairly new to using the lathe and I am making a tool to set the height of the tool tips so that should help. I did check the delrin strip and it had some wear so i turned it over and now I can't tighten the bolts that hold it in place too much or it is too hard to move the c...

This sounds dumb but did you look underneath / inside the cabinet to see if there are any other bolts or screws holding it down ? If the V10 frame hasn't been removed from the base in a long time and the lathe was stored in a area that is subject to temp swings, the cutting oils and grease may have ...

I haven't window shopped for a rotary broach in a while, Polygon Solutions which makes and sells
rotary broaches is in FL, so is the ebay seller, maybe they're one in the same ?
worth contacting seller to find out.

I assume this in response to my post . So...how do you know before all in hand? Call, if they can't give concise answers, call another vendor. Company selling probably does not know Then definitely look elsewhere, how can a company not know what they're selling ? $$$ to return? Pre sales questions a...

Bill Shields wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:54 pm And if the manuals do not match?
Send it back?

Buy elsewhere where the manuals are up to date and match the product they sell.

I don't have the mill that you're looking to buy, I have a PM932 -PDF with power Z and X axis. My mill has a separate gear motor driving the lead screw for the z axis ( head elevation ) at the top of the column, not a kludge that the 833TV has. If you want to change the Z axis motor position, downlo...