The Home Machinist!

I have done just what refinery mike said to do. cut a hardwood dowel to just under bore size, then mill or file down just under half diameter of the dowel take a file and mill down one face smooth leave the other side alone. now mill both thin sides down to just under bore size. to use, you start wi...

watch this master machinist make a 12 cyl. eng. !!!!



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Gerald C

I just got done making my own tapered barrel. you buy a barrel blank of the proper cal. then I put it in a four jaw chuck on my lathe and dial it in using a pin gauge in the bore. to the nearist .ooo5" then using a spyder on the other end of the spindal dial the other end in then go back and fo...

Harrol, the larger size I would like to see.



Gerald C

We just did 50, met in high school ran away, still going strong, headed for Africa in may!

Gerald C

A long time ago I took 2 air cyclinders same size 1" x 10" hooked one end to the outboard 15hp and filled and bled the system one was the steering the other worked the motor. worked great, there was no mech. adv. because they were both the same size.

Gerald C.

Jack, We are on well water ,have a septic tank, our total electric bill runs about $150.00 per month, execpt in Jan. then it goes up to $300.00 due to running a christmas display that is computer controlled. We run in excess of 50,000 lights that runs 4 hrs. every night.

Gerald C.

I've had a geothemal system for 9 years now , it works great . we had to use two wells to make it work one for the water and the other for the dump, the well are 72 feet deep, our house is,2500sq.ft per level , we have two levels, the system gives us heat for winter and AC for the summer. when we di...

Thedieter, the reason for the 5 deg. holes is to put the muzzle blast forward some what thus helping the bystanders . ( guide ) I do give up some recoil reduction for this benefit. Steve, the compound does the moving, I control the speed of the drill. for doing angle drilling, when drilling stright ...

Dickeybird, no I don't post there so go ahead if you want to. Coal miner, have at it. that is why I posted the pic. I've gotton so much from this site I owe something back. Bill, I have a steven's 44 1/2 45/ 90 34 inch barell shoots 545 grain lead bullets at 1345 fps with black powder out to 1000 yd...

Bill, I call it a drilling jig, It is built from 1.125 steel bar stock, I bored the front out to hold 2 bearings then turned the rest down to fit the boring bar holder, drilled a 3/8 hole and reamed to size. I then used 3/8" tool steel to hold the chuck, If you look just behind the chuck you se...

I just got done putting a new barrel I chambered, for my Mark V Weatherby ( 375 H & H ). and I wanted to put a brake on it but the design called for a 5deg angle for the holes. I just got my mill trued up so I didn't want to tilt the head. So here is what I came up with. I mounted a timing wheel...