The Home Machinist!

The grinder would look like this on the machine. http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/donsmonarch10ee/?action=view&current=PostGrinder003.jpg This grinder is larger by quite a bit. Anyway, the grinder I have shown is set up with a dish wheel for face grinding. MSC has small dish wheels with s...

Yes, the TravAdial is calibrated by using the mount screws to tilt it. At the same time, thrust is controlled by the base. Look through the little hole in the base, adjust the yoke until the spring is centered in the hole. Usually a 5" mic standard or gage block is used to test travel. The two ...

I have Monarch EE lathes, Both the AXA and The BXA fit, and I have both styles. I use these machines a lot, I cant say the BXA is more rigid on those machines. The BXA has more tool extension because of its size. Though it can use bigger boring bars. Its more clumsy, and just too big most of the tim...

Most RTs have hard to use slots.
This old Gorton 15", has very nice slot arrangement. I use it as a sub-table most of the time on this machine.

Harold is on it. I would not mess with the spindle itself, instead fit your new plates to the spindle. This is what I want on my own machines. The taper to just get snug, to the point of it taking just a bump of my hand to break it loose, when the pins are loosened. If the taper is loose, the chuck ...

Here are just some of my off the wall applications. Holder on turret, Hardinge HC. http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/donsmonarch10ee/?action=view&current=DSC00444.jpg "Adjust true" collet chuck on Sioux valve grinder. Laying on the valve grinder, an "adjust true" chuck ...

The DA collets have worked well for me in light milling applications. Collets in general are not the best for heavy milling. The ER style are probably better. Boeing made a switch to them several years ago, had good deals at the surplus store on DA collets and chucks, by the pound. I adapted them fo...

Yes, the Moore taper is their own. shown here, at left is a Moore boring head, at right is a Criterion 1 1/2" square boring head. http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/donsmonarch10ee/?action=view&current=Mooreboringheads.jpg Buying new shanks from Moore is possible, but expensive. Criter...

If a I may comment, I have experience with these machines. That is not a drill press. It is a #1 Jig Borer. You can drill with them, but smaller holes. It is not recommended to put more then reasonable pressure on the quill hand wheel= 1/2" drill at most. In practice, a part is roughed out on a...

I use lead also, its just better, much better. Beat them up and re pour them. This unfortunately is a true story. They were used at Boeing aircraft, until a worker dressed the mushed out edges on a bench grinder. The powdered lead got all over him, he drug it home on his clothes and poisoned his wif...

Wow!

At times, I had to hold close tolerance, but never on cold rolled steel. Always tool steels, that finish nicely.

Glenn Wegmans suggestions seems the best to me.

Doing that on a toolmakers lathe, is not easy.

Well, I have seen a wide variety of results with different brands of carbide. Carbide, such as Micro 100 is a softer but tough grade, that will work for most any material. That said, I have had the most problems with the harder grades of carbide, where as the tool tends to chip. Some import carbide ...