The Home Machinist!

Again good information. There is a unit called a water- welder and when mine worked correctly it was highly recommended. Sometimes for smaller hi-heat application-well jewelers use them all the time, They would be good. The old ones were HENES. There is one on ebay now # 320011461697. Something to g...

Well every thing is of concern. You haven't indicated clearly enough to this moron what size Atlas you are talking about. Whether it has good compliment of tooling and whether the gears are in good shape. How much importance is the weight and cost? The Ways construction was done by engineers for sur...

Another insipid comment from me. I threw a beer box into the fireplace to get some green wood going. This was back when i was young and dum and knew everything. Back when i was living at home with my folks. They were sleeping upstairs, i down below at fireplace. Something took off which was like som...

First off I don't know what size Atlas that is. I agree with all previous posts. The rigidity goes up as the size went down on the Atlas. The 10" was a fine machine, I had a 12". Mine was the earlier design -not earliest it was Timken bearing headstock and proud about that. The later large...

Well i gave it a day. Body panel shrinkers don't work well on this thickness.By heating the center and beating the s outta it it's probably good as it's going to be. Now let me expound about a really good woman....let me not. It's just great to have a partner. Sheeze go to a machinery auction one da...

Upon reread I see you are talking about the same lathe I own. L-00 tapered-spindle vari- speed 11' except yours had something extra. I went and found the 1980 Rockwell catalog while typing this and there was no direct speed indicator listed as an option.

So this is a 14" Rockwell? Why was i thinking 11" SB. Anyway yes there are newer tachs that can be mounted and pick off and read your rpms. It's not my biz why you need be so exact. If you think about the smaller varispeed they just had a plate and gave you aprox rpm which was pretty close...

Cobalt is about done the same way. Was better. Actually better for getting thru the rough stuff than carbide. The deal with carbide is it will cut the devil but if slammed with rough chunks can immediately break at cutting edge and be rendered useless. The sharpening and use has been covered many ti...

There is good advise and yes Presto-Lite. There were many by the amount i saw when going around buying old tools years back. I remember one estate sale where the guy had tapped into his main gas line after the meter and cutoff and had what i believe was a modified Presto laying on the bench. A well ...

Mystery solved. Quite rational. It's easy to have only one on an old 4-banger where they are relatively cheap. The ceramics are never really noticed by me on the small auto ones. They fail and get replaced. $37 or close. Where I see now the distinction from small concern does require an avenue to cl...

Those were some cool pics and came out just fine. Yours has some "patina", not a bad thing, means it was worth using. From the 1st I thought that is what you had to do with gibs but origionally they were allen bolts and set into a bored recess. There was plenty of meat to do that even if p...

The collapse I referred to was on an aprox 2.5k lb tailgate. The Index mill was only #2 size and I'm not gonna start pumping myself up or lie. It was just a 46" table mill. I took everything off I could with bleeding ulcer. Freakin blinding rainstorm when we unloaded. Had to get the truck back....