The Home Machinist!

Wow! No answers yet, eh? Well, the answer is...(drum roll please)...it depends. There are several different models and configurations of 9 & 10" South Bends. The "light" 10's (the "10K", for example) has lots of interchangeability with the basic 9" The "heavy 1...

...as for parting it off, I did the same thing on a 3" diameter aluminum solid stock. I won't do that again. It's just too deep a cut, and the blade flexes way too much, so you end up with a dish instead of a flat surface at the cut. The next time, I cut the material off on a bandsaw, then re-c...

Most of my work has been on smaller stuff as well so far (I, too, have a South Bend 9" with the 54" bed), but...an upcoming project I will be doing is to true up, balance, and weld a driveshaft for the car I'm scratch-building. The driveshaft is close to 3' long and, without the longer bed...

Well, I'm a newbie at machining, and the first thing I've tackled (other than straight turning of some parts) is a ball-turning attachment. It's a variation on Steve Bedair's design, modified to suit the materials I could get my hands on (or had "in stock"), and requiring the absolute mini...

I found this forum more or less by accident, and I think I've found a new home here! I've always wanted to do some real machining and, although I've been doing metal fabrication for years (mostly shaping, welding, etc.), the one tool I really wanted, and didn't have (for reasons of space, $, etc.) w...