The Home Machinist!

Don't forget to check KURT's scratch and dent sales that they post on their website. My friend got a really good deal on a vise that just had a couple small paint chips but wasn't perfect for retail sales. FWIW my mill table is 6 x 26 and I have a 4" wide vise and have never wished for a larger one,...

pete: This tool block clamps the 5/16" or smaller tool direct without any other complications. The slots are 1/2" wide and 3/8" deep but that is so one can put a clamp pad between the tool and the screw tips.
--earlgo

This is the one I built but I didn't know it had predecessors. This one fits a 10/12 in Atlas/Craftsman lathe compound. There are dimensioned drawings if you wish. PM me and I will send them to you or anyone else interested.
--earlgo

This may not be the definitive answer, but whenever I order something at McM-C and pick it up on site, it still comes in a shipping sized box with all the shipping labels. If you ever get to visit a McM-C you will see nothing from the will-call area but conveyors. I think the box size is determined ...

Heck yes. I used one to clean up the ball socket in my Acculock vise several years ago. The vise part was cast iron, and it worked very well. Notice that the ball was angled to the cut so it wasn't cutting on the crown of the ball. --earlgo

We got an echo dot as a promotional gift and as soon as I started to set it up the dog left the room and hid. It was several days before the dog was able to stay in the same room with a person with their phone out. It either has a high frequency that the dog didn't like or it was the strange un-seea...

Beer cans are about .004" aluminum. They are compression formed so the aluminum is not dead soft. A couple of wraps would of course double the thickness. Maybe you can find some in your neighbor's recycle bin.
--earlgo

If you didn't need too many, you could buy fender washers and cut slots in the edges to emulate the locking tabs. But I am sure you will find them somewhere where warmstrong suggested.
--earlgo

When this conversation started, I took apart a T12 lamp, bypassed the ballast, inserted an LED bulb and it was really bright for about 2 nanoseconds. I put it all back together with the ballast and fluorescent tubes. Then I bought fixtures from Costco.
Just my EI experience.
--earlgo

WO2P:
How goes the Delta Toolmaker rebuild. Haven't heard about it lately. Most likely life is getting in the way.
Keep us posted.
--earlgo

There is a similar pushbutton one in my shop, but definitely not made by B&S. It too has gotten hard to push over the years. Thanks for the suggestion on loosening it up.
2nd on DON'T TAKE THE MAGNET OUT! We wrecked one by doing that to see how it was made.
--earlgo

Mr. Cutter: Try your local ACE hardware:
https://www.acehardware.com/departments ... ds/7680994
Free delivery to the store. Hope you don't have to travel to Geneva, OH to pick it up, though.
--earlgo