The Home Machinist!

# 3 , Charles is sort of right right, they're low profile fixture clamps -
https://www.miteebite.com/products/fixture-clamps/

# 2 sure do look like bushings for a keyway broach.

Those broken 1/8 in endmills look like carbide, save them and grind points on them
to use as scribers, pointers, what not.

Some sort of tool holder ?
There are set screw marks on the flats of the shank in the second picture.

The availability of the original wire size used in making the coil. Finding the correct size wire shouldn't be a problem I think, I did a quick search and found this place - https://www.remingtonindustries.com/ They seem to have all sizes from 14 AWG to 44 AWG, I got a chuckle when selecting a 44 A...

Beats the heck out me, I have those very same thumb screws on my Delta drill press and small arbor press I figured they would be easy to find. I wouldn't mind knowing a source too. McMaster doesn't list them under thumb screws or wing screws, a Google image search doesn't return anything. They seem ...

Take a look here - http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=2185&tab=3 there are many brown and sharpe publications listed there from 1882 to 1992, I looked thru some catalogs and B&S mainly produced large horizonal milling machines, the pictures you posted of the machine don't co...

I have the Timken catalog lots of good engineering info, most of which makes my eyes glaze over. The catalog didn't have the size I need listed, the bearing place tried Timken first, since they're THE place to go for tapered roller bearings, iirc they said Timken didn't have the size I needed in the...

Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember getting a bearing from a USA brand company that was NOT made in USA... You might want to double check your 'country of origin' I've seen that in bearings bought from McMaster, Argentina and Italy come to mind. The big problem is China is producing...

Nice link, crazy low prices for aluminum off cuts, I just compared 1.25" thick 6061 12x12
McMaster - $ 127.52 not including tax and shipping
Buffalo Prec - $ 25.31 not including tax and shipping

SWAG stupid wild a** Guess. Looks to me like the preload was a bit tight.. Can you get a higher precision bearing in less time? Learn something new every day :) I asked about other precision classes and they said the standard was readily available, the higher precision one was harder to find, one a...

Being realistic, you will probably have to SWAG it and snug up to take out any end play and tab it over from there. Run it hard for an hour or so, take the belts off and quickly check for end play (vertical). If there is any, then you will need to take it out by adjusting the nut.. Other than freeb...

Bill Shields wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:20 pm As for my take on PM...they are just rebranding generic PRC hardware.

Oh for sure, Grizzly's G7055 is the same mill but without powerdown feed.